STOP!!!!

Before you drive over to your local Wal-Mart or Sam's Club (same owners, multi-BILLIONAIRE Walton family) and go wandering around their 20,000 square foot store looking for some tiny thing nestled way in the back, watch the following movie. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. Really eye opening to say the least. Jules and I recently got it from Blockbuster online but it is probably possible to find it on NetFlix or even your local movie store.

It is pretty disgusting the way that unchecked anything-for-a-buck capitalism and corporate greed has demolished any sense of trust that consumers can have in the products that they buy. There doesn't appear to be any accountability for the rip offs out there. Some people may say "well that's what you'd expect from a place where you can get cheap clothing." There is a difference between getting a deal because of smart shopping and getting a deal at the expense of someone else's livelihood. Let us not forget that many of the products that we get in the great USA are made overseas by workers that get barely enough money to live (and not at poverty level, like our USA Wal-Mart employees mind you). It may be difficult to make smart consumer choices when it seems that everything is unPC at times. Do you eat farm raised salmon or not, should I buy this J. Crew shirt made for pennies in Malaysia, what happens to the waste products of the computer manufacturing company in Korea? Tough, tough and I know that I am not by any means innocent of consumer misinformation or apathy myself. But just ask yourself the question the next time you go to a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart or any other store guilty of poor payment and treatment of workers or life (animals too!).....Do I want to support the poor ethics of this company and reinforce their shady dealings with my dollars? You decide.....