<html> Ric,    Front cover of the current Music Trades Magazine is a picture of Wal Mart, with a story about band instruments. Relevant enough? <G> Just answering, Guy At 12:05 PM 12/2/2003 +0100, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Ok folks.... just so we all are aware of it :):)... we've gone several months now without delving into the realm of politics or the like. Its been nice if you ask me. This is an interesting story to be sure... and we could ask ourselves a lot of relevant questions like "where are the cloths we are wearing really made" or "who picks those bananas we eat and how much are they paid".... and so on and so on... But... do we really want to do that here ?? Just asking :) Cheers RicB Susan Kline wrote: > > At 09:57 PM 12/1/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >I found this story to be very  interesting. > > > ><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html</a> > > > >Tim Coates > >University of South Dakota > >University of Sioux Falls > > Too true. That does it. No more shopping at WalMart. > Actually, Corvallis turned down WalMart. I'm proud of them. > I've seen other articles which detailed how WalMart (and > stores like it) suck the life out of everything around > them. > > And I'm tired of not being able to find anything which isn't > made in China. I'm going to be a much more discriminating > shopper in the future. We're buying all this Chinese stuff > on credit, anyhow, because they're subsidizing the trade > imbalances by buying our government bonds -- and how many > can they buy before they get tired of holding trillions of > dollars of our debt? And where does that leave us, when they > no longer want any more dollars, and all our factories have > closed their doors? > > Susan > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <a href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no" eudora="autourl">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</a> <a href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html" eudora="autourl">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</a> <a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</a> _______________________________________________ caut list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a></blockquote></html>