Re: Why did Grizzly raise their prices? OT

[email protected] writes:
>On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:41:30 -0600, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>And just how will all these laid off folks be able to support $13/lb
>steak
>>prices? And do you REALLY believe that China produces the same quality
>goods
>>as Europe and the US have for decades? And has "reality TV" already
>replaced
>>"religion" as the "opium of the people", as you watched?
>
>A while back, I heard a radio report where the report questioned
>employees of a Carolina textile plant buying Chinese made clothing in
>the hometown Wal-Mart. Apparently, "Buy American" means you should
>buy MY stuff, while I'll buy the cheapest crap I can, and not talk
>about YOUR job going away. But when MY job goes to China, I'll cry
>on the TV news that Wal-Mart ran my factory out of bidnet.
>
>Support your neighbor for real, or sooner or later, the hypocrisy is
>going to drag us all down a hole.

Reminds me of the loggers protesting the spotted owl restrictions, many of
them driving foreign-made pickups. Something not quite credible about
that. (Not to mention the mill closure they were protesting was for a
mill that had been closed for over ten years before the spotted owl was
even discusssed!)
<sigh>

Glenna