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Protesters storm Wal-Mart in Mexico

Wal-Mart is the biggest private employer in Mexico with more than 140,000 workers. Wal-Mart is the largest private-sector employer in Mexico. No wonder the Mexicans are crossing the border!

Demonstrations recently stormed a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of Mexico City, accusing the U.S.-based retailer of selling low-cost goods at the expense of workers, farmers and public markets.

Here is a republican response to the protests of Wal-Mart in Mexico and an overall Pro-Wal-Mart view:

Mexico, a classic example of your love of government controls. Mexico owns several times more resources than the US and everything is in poverty because these are a corrupt people trying to survive from birth. Wal-Mart is the about the only hope for Mexico.

But you bring up Wally bashing because you only have 4 letter words and a love for government control. Why is the union not down there in Mexico -whole bunch of government employees in Mexico? This AP report is as corrupt as Mexico -the only person making a comment was some guy whose job is creating walkouts for his San Francisco firm. Very typical press for the ignorant to the contribution Wal-Mart makes for this world.

These corrupt Mexicans -so loved -have the goal of taking the US. I live next door to 4 families in one house -the population explosion of Mexicans in the US put s them in a fast track to turn our language to Spanish and only Spanish --and folks, these hard working people do not turn into angels by crossing the border -they are still very corrupt thinking because they grew up in survival mode poverty due to everything in Mexico controlled/corrupted by the government right down to dog catcher.

You’re goofy argument against drilling off of Florida -at least several hundred miles by US companies: China is drilling off of Cuba -you might check a map to how far Cuba is from Florida! But this is your total support of dictator/terrorist/gov control/mafia control countries ahead of the US welfare and US companies!

The smartest thing the US could do is increase subsidy for big oil by 10 times with the money earmarked for alternate energy. no, brainless government wants to take care of your alternate energy needs --just tax big oil more and everything will be fine! What liars.

Just the facts, sorry you can't read numbers or argue

without lame language, or give credit for Wal-Mart being world class at helping folks to better lives, or know the difference bet dictator/terrorist/gov control/mafia control/foreign ownership of US countries and private US companies, and so on.

Here in the United States you have both political parties putting up a fence on the border: you can't build a mile of fence without coming across rock, valleys, trees, creeks, terrain, etc that you can't build a fence, it takes a person with a hedge clipper all of 30 seconds to cut a hole in a chain link fence, wild animals will dig holes and knock down any fence -most animals don't recognize red or blue politics.

-Gabe, Republican, UT

Do you know how extreme your positions are, even among conservatives? How did you end up with such unusual opinions for a working-class person?

Bob, Dem, OR

China drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba? BOTH political parties building a fence? Is this from Rush-land? If China were doing any significant drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba, Bush would have gone to town with it but that's the first I've heard of it. If you have a non-Rush source for that, I'd like to see the article. And the fence is a joke...yes, I know the Democrats probably went along for the same reason Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform act in 1996...politics...but that hare-brained idea was straight from the Republican bag of "let's not do anything but look like we did" tricks. But I think we're in agreement that no wall is going to work if employers are allowed to continue to offer jobs here.

I don't know where you get your assumptions about my politics...what I want is for every American family to have decent income, education, medical care, housing, food...for our country to have a sensible energy policy that respects the environment....for American foreign policy to do more diplomacy and less war...American corporate entities aren't the slightest bit inclined to help with any of that. That leaves the people, doing it themselves, and acting through their elected government. It may not be the perfect solution, but it's the only ones that greedy corporations leave the people. If you think corporations are going to do all that, I want some of what you're smoking.

-Mary C., FL

What bothers me most about this pro-capitalist pro Wal-Mart point of view is the lack of concern for the waste and destructive nature.

Big Box stores and massive consumer habits is not a GREAT thing. Replacing natural systems of solar - diverse plants - pasture grazing animal - human.
with
solar - huge mono-cultures of plants - feed lot animals- massive tons of petroleum to house feed and transport - to human IS A REALLY DUMB CHOICE.

Yes it makes money for some. But it is a horribly inefficient and massive destructive.

Big Box stores replace locally owned business. What could be made and grown locally is now made hundreds or thousands of miles away and requires assive distribution systems to get them from the factory to your front door. Oil, Oil, Oil.

This is not a system to be proud of. This is not a system we should encourage being adopted in other countries.

We Americans have become used to a lifestyle that is VERY DESTRUCTIVE and NON-SUSTAINABLE.

It will COLLAPSE.

Now either you recognize this and attempt to change your habits or you continue to ignore the reality of this dire situation and become part of the problem.

Wal-Mart, Tyco, Chevron, Starbucks, are not good things or bad things. They are just systems that have become too large, non-local, and will strangle the last living resource we have if they go on unchecked and unregulated.

Our government is allowing this madness to occur because it is good for the current economy.

But it completely ignores the fact that after the system collapses under its own weight there will be no economy.

Now is that smart? Do you chart another course or do you just drive off the cliff in your fancy new car?

-Derek, NM

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