Walmart is not hero. It is because of this retailer that we have so much of this cheap lead filled junk from China in our homes. All at the expense of our jobs.
Please don't make Walmart to be a hero when it really is more like the villian.

if people get little money in return of their work labor, they can only spend on cheap lead filled junk from China!
Walmart will ensure that minimum wage is paid? Is anyone who gets minimum wage installing solar panels, buying organic local healthy food?
the root of the problem is deeper! why are we living a wasteful meaningless lifes?

Wal-mart has become a huge detriment to America. It is because of Wal-Mart many of the American jobs has been shipped to other countries. Everything in the store is made in China. They have forced competition to take jobs abroad in order to compete. They are a monopoly and Americans should take a stance and boycott Wal-Mart and any other American company that take the majority of their jobs overseas.

Wal-Mart is in a very good position to help fight all pollution in China. The US imports about 20% of all goods manufactured in China, much bu Wall-Mart. So, possibly up to 20% of Chinese CO2 output and pollution is caused by our demand for their products. Shipping these goods (ocean freighters, trains and trucks) add to the pollution. Regarding pre-Olympic pollution in Beijing, we should know perhaps 20% of this problem was caused by Americans buying Chinese goods.

Two solutions:
Buying US made products would help reduce China’s pollution. US manufacturers and power producers are more environmentally responsible.

Also, we could insist through regulation or pressure that US importers require their manufacturers in China to be environmentally responsible. (Similar to pressuring US tennis shoe companies to get 10 year olds out of their foreign sweat shops). Our government and business leaders should put pressure on China’s business elite to be more environmentally responsible. Importing goods made only this way will also help level the playing field.

Take care, frank

Frank Zaski
Franklin, Mi.