Target does have that catchy song.

Ha ha ... I doubt people would head on over to Target. People, for whatever reason, better appreciate the little smiley face... What's so friggin bad about a puppy? Come on America! Yeah, Alaska can take WalMart on.. That'd be funny. Eskimos attacking social idiots... that would be entertainment; kind of like the whole Civil War issue with people having picnics on the sidelines...

The president should declare a mandatory battle between Wal-Mart and Target. The victor will be crowned King of The United States. And If Wal-Mart wins...we'll have Alaska prepared and ready to come down and kick it's ass. It'll be a coup, Wal-Mart will never see it coming.

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Funny but nobody had mentioned PETA for MONTHS in this thread before your post. Do you just troll the forums looking for every post about PETA and animal rights?

Well excuuuuse me, I didn't look at the date that crap was posted. I only looked here because of the title of the thread and I wanted to see what you all were saying on this subject (yes I am interested in subjects other than animal rights). It was by chance, really.

And I have better things to do than "troll" the boards.

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I don't see why PETA has to be dragged into this, stick to the original topic, please.

Funny but nobody had mentioned PETA for MONTHS in this thread before your post. Do you just troll the forums looking for every post about PETA and animal rights?

You know what, here's a link for you:
Johnny Cash's response to PETA

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PeTA people are idiots. They value animal life as equal to or greater than human life. Idiots.

Here we go with the stereotypes. I do not think animal life has more value than human life.
And I prefer using PETA rather than PeTA because from what I've seen, more anti-PETA people use PeTA than the pro-PETA people. Even PETA itself doesn't spell PETA like PeTA in things they write (like in their catalog and such)! Just look around on http://www.peta.org , you'll see.
Besides, spelling PETA like PeTA looks dumb. How about PeTA? The e is italized in their logo you know, to put more emphasis on the word "ethical".
And there are conservative members of PETA. Don't generalize.
(Let's not forget about Matthew Scully: http://www.matthewscully.com )

And I'm not an idiot!

I don't see why PETA has to be dragged into this, stick to the original topic, please.

We should focus on our own economy as a country, without government involvement.

Wal-Mart's buisness model may seem like it helps reduce prices, however it's doing so by adding to our ridiculous trade deficit and helping to prop up the Chinese economy. We've got something like 30-50 billion dollars bleeding out of our economy every month. We need to increase local production of cheap goods that we can buy in our own economy. The same goes for oil exports. Self sufficency is key.

The main reason the US is "falling" in my opinion is because of the lack of what one may call a superior education and overextension of involvement in foreign affairs. Wal Mart may be bad, but it isn't the sole reason the US is slowly degrading its superpower status.

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Originally posted by carpetrug01:
wal mart is horrible for the united state's economy. its like the main reason its failing. its closing down all of the american buisnesses such as thompson electonics, huffy bicycles, and rubbermaid! Ohio had over 100 thousand job losses! wall mart should be put out of buisness by the federal goverment. they should make a new law forbiding wal mart to sell their crap in the united states.

Yes I'm sure Wal-Mart will put Huffy and Rubbermaid out of business. It's just silly that those products are actually sold at most Wal-Marts...

And you do realize that if Wal-Mart is "put of out of business" by Washington, we'll be in deeper economic sh*t than the Bush administration has already put us in? Man, learn some basic economy.

"Waah! My neighbor is big and fat and smelly and he's totally ruining the economy!"

Carpetrug, I don't think you understand how the economy works.
Explain how wal-mart closed the businesses and I will try to help you out.

wal mart is horrible for the united state's economy. its like the main reason its failing. its closing down all of the american buisnesses such as thompson electonics, huffy bicycles, and rubbermaid! Ohio had over 100 thousand job losses! wall mart should be put out of buisness by the federal goverment. they should make a new law forbiding wal mart to sell their crap in the united states.

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My sarcasm senses are tingling.

Actually, I'm serious. It was on sale. And BUM Equipment, while not necessarily Rolex, still makes good watches. Good enough for me, at least. I'm cheap.

I used to work at Wal-Mart.

I don't anymore...the capitalist whöres...

I don't shop there anymore either.

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I like Wal-Mart. I bought my sweatshop-made watch there for twenty bucks. Much better than that American-made piece of junk I used to have that cost me forty bucks and fell apart after a year.

My sarcasm senses are tingling. Then again, I'm never good with detecting sarcasm, especially the written form.

I like Wal-Mart. I bought my sweatshop-made watch there for twenty bucks. Much better than that American-made piece of junk I used to have that cost me forty bucks and fell apart after a year.

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It's still more expensive for the "luxurious" products that Americans take for granted

I know that a meal at McDonalds costs a half weeks salary in Moscow, but supply and demand makes it so. MacDonalds are packed there all the time. If people will pay it then MacDo will charge it.

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Economies of scale differences factor in cost of living, not just exchange rates.

True, to a point. It's still more expensive for the "luxurious" products that Americans take for granted. The ratios don't work in every instance, FML. In fact, they're reversed more often than not.

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Ten cents here is about... mmm... A dollar and twenty-four cents, using the July exchange rate.

Economies of scale differences factor in cost of living, not just exchange rates.

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Economies of scale my friend.

Yes, what sense that makes. Ten cents here is about... mmm... A dollar and twenty-four cents, using the July exchange rate. So many "sense". I take it you know of people in America willing to do these jobs for $1.24/hour?