t; Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:52 PM
> To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Robert Reich on consumer interests vs.
> worker/citizen interests
>
> You could blame people who wore cotton clothing for slavery by the
> same logic.
>
> Montesquieu wrote &quo
You could blame people who wore cotton clothing for slavery by the same logic.
Montesquieu wrote "It must be said that slavery is against nature, though in
certain
countries it is founded upon natural reason. One may distinguish between such
countries and those in which natural reasons reject it
This is such nonsense. It's as if Walmart is nothing more than
a purveyor of cheap goods, as if it has no political clout and does
nothing to structure our society outside of the transactions it
conducts with consumers.
Bill
February 28, 2005/New York TIMES
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Don't Blame Wal-Mart
By ROBERT B. REICH
Berkeley, Calif. - BOWING to intense pressure from neighborhood and
labor groups, a real estate developer has just given up plans to include
a Wal-Mart store in a mall in Queens, thereby blocking Wal-Mart's p
