Wal Mart
01/May/2010 11:27 Filed in: Money
Fox News just (11am,
Sat. May 1) had a show about how tough life was for
Wal Mart. Steve Forbes, as a guest on the show,
lamented how unions forced poor Wal Mart into
providing health benefits for its workers. Any guest
on the show commenting against the mega-giant
corporation was promptly interrupted and shouted down
by the host of the show. This is, of course, during
the supposed "news hours" of Fox news not the
"commentary hours." The pundits raved about how many
jobs Wal Mart creates in communities, with no mention
of all of the jobs and businesses destroyed when Wal
Mart moves into a community. In addition, no mention
was made by a single guest about how many jobs are
lost because Wal Mart's products don't come from
Amercan workers, but rather from outsourced sweat
shops and quasi slave labor in other countries.
Instead, the broadcast was designed to make Wal Mart
a poor victim and villify unions. What is
unfortunate, is that so many Americans do not ask the
tough questions: Where do these good prices come
from? Where do we get our cheap products? These are
moral questions.