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Most of Wal-Mart's products are produced

1) overseas.

2) with slave labor.

Yeah, I know a lot of American retail products fit this bill. However, Wal-Mart is really the most egregious about it.

Its tough being a Steeler fan, even though they won with some spectacular plays and getting a sixth Superbowl. Why? I just about blew chunks when Dan Rooney gave a shout out to The One after he was handed the trophy. He has a major man crush on Obama and apparently was a big supporter. Dont know about the other Rooney's but when I found out Dan was a big Obama cheerleader, it felt like a knife in the chest. I try not to think about him too much.

As for the game itself, it was a real nail-biter and great football. Sort of feel bad for the Cards even though I really if some other team was playing against them I would root for the other team. In general I dont like like teams named after birds: Ravens, Falcons, Eagles, ect.

That apology by Springsteen sounds just like the apologies that Geithner and Daschle gave for their tax crime follies. That should qualify The Boss for a cabinet position.

I must admit; I could not bear the torture of watching the NBC pre-Game show, the half-time show, or the Post-game show.
It is like watching dead people talk.
For the most part; before and after the game, I watched the Puppy-Bowl on the Animal Channel.

Wanna bet he keeps the money?

I know people who own business in China. The wages are low compared to here...so is the cost of living. No one has a "slave labor" factory. I'm sure somewhere there are those, but they are the exception, not the rule.

People like Anon spout that crap just like they do "Global Warming" or "Animal Cruelty". It's a buzz-word. Translation: I'm a shill for the Unions.

Hey Anon: I would love more business to be done here in the U.S. Tell your man Obama to stop taxing and regulating us to death and maybe we'd stop shipping so many jobs overseas. HOW ABOUT THAT?

As for the goods themselves, do you try to find a good price on shoes, clothes, electronics and a million other things? YOU DO? Oh, I see now. You are just like your hero Al "deep freeze" Gore or PETA folks who wear leather shoes. Do as I say, not as I do.

You are as transparent as a piece of glass. Go back to the AFL/CIO or Teamsters, pal. You've been outed.

Oh yeah...and Bruce will keep the money.

The Boss, is not called that name for being stupid. He KNEW the deal, his "people" KNEW about the deal, his wife KNEW about the deal, come on, Brucie, YOU KNEW! You needed to market your product and Wal Mart gave you the best deal. Don't think we are stupid. I would never buy you CD from anyone, but to backpeddle now instead of claiming you are just as much in capitalism as the next guy would have made you a hero. Your denial is Bulls**T

I Pledge not to buy any of his music from any store.

That first comment was a real knee-jerk, you jerk. I just went to Walmart. I bought several personal care items, cat food, TP, cleaning stuff. All made in USA.

Springsteen's an ass, I paid no attention to his little show, or the preceding little show.

Numbskull Anonymous at February 2, 2009 10:58 AM

"Slave labor" factories, in the People's Republic of China? So socialists go in for slavery?

You can't have it both way, nitwit.

"Anonymous at February 2, 2009 10:58 AM"

Then you must hate the LIBERAL Springsteen for associating with such EEEVIL people, right? Get your fellow Liberals to boycot him.

By the way, the slave labor factorys are run by the Chinese GOVERNMENT.

Springsteen: "Oh, that Wal-Mart. Bad. Oh, very bad. Very bad indeed. I shall speak sternly to my staff for making such a lucrative deal with a bad company. Very sternly."

End of story.

Oh well... at least the Transformers 2 trailer was worth watching. And the commercial where they repeatedly punched the koala.

Too bad he went liberal now he is a socialists and HOW MANY TREES WERE CHOPPED DOWN TO MAKE HIS GIUTAR AND SHEET MUSIC?

Anonymous: Yessss I LOVED that koala commercial (CareerBuilder.com), my wife and I were gasping for air... and the Doritos ads - crystal ball in particular. FOTFLMAO

Spurwing Plover: Bruce "went" liberal?!? He's been a big pro-Union-worker lib all along, perhaps just wasn't a militant moonbat until the 2000s. Good point about the sheet music... in fact, his axe is probably made of some rare, tropical-rain-forest wood. Good old lib hypocrisy, do as I say, not as I do.

Yeah he's not going to be returning the checks to Wal-Mart. I preferred Puppy Bowl V to this a-hole as well. They had some kind of colorful halftime show with a kitten if I remember correctly.

Regarding Wal-Mart, I think they are overly generous to their employees by giving them jobs at all. Most of them are rude and their intellectual faculties rival that of goat semen. And what is the useless "greeter" at the front other than a charity job? For those to suggest these people deserve higher pay is ridiculous.

"Oh well... at least the Transformers 2 trailer was worth watching."
That was cool, but I was SOOOO pissed that they didn't feature a trailer for 'X- Men Origins: Wolverine.'

There's no fool like an old fool.

Old has been! Wait......was he ever making cool music?

Oh that's right. They play "Glory Days" at Baseball Games. That's it?

Good point, Adam. I also wasn't really thrilled with the GI Joe trailer. They've pretty much ripped the "Real American Hero" right out of the property. Now the Joes are an international UN-type peace-keeping squad. Riiiiight. I wonder if anyone in Hollywood actually knows what "G.I. Joe" means.

The hypocripsy of the libs has no bounds. Springsteen is a talented musician, and his halftime performance was not bad, but his nobler than thou musings leave much to be desired.
"It was a mistake"? He must have given the Wal-mart marketing deal about as much thought as the song list on the CD. It's a rehash of all the other "best of Brucie" collections plus or minus a couple of songs. In honor of the lofty "I pledge..." drivel pouring forth from the entertainment pinheads, "I pledge not to buy any product with Springsteen's name on it." As for WM's products being made overseas, slave labor blah, blah, blah, have you checked the merchandise at Teflon Target lately? Same Stuff, different label.

At least he warned us of how many minutes (12) his performance would last. Who noticed he changed the lyrics of Glory Days from baseball player to football player and left out a verse--the one about "back in school she could turn all the boys' heads... after she's put the kids to bed... she and Bobby split up, I guess it's been two years gone by now"?

Maybe the Super Bowl half time should return to the glory days of marching bands and Up With People and leave lefty entertainers out of it.

Why is he known as "the Boss" because I just can't understand why people buy his (crap) muzak.
D.T.

Actually, I hate unions with a vitriolic passion. I knew from the age of 8 they would ruin the businesses they were attached to. Also, they killed my father.

The "slave labor" aspect comes from illegal immigrants (in countries other then the US) who are forced to work long hours and are not paid.

And I practice what I preach; generally I buy things that are hand-made locally or a vetted Fair Trade company. I certainly never go to Wal-Mart.

Anonymous, I entered a Wal-Mart once. Am I now:

1. A knuckledragger insensitive to the plight of (insert your political issue here)

2. An unwitting supporter of a great American and Capitalist success story

3. So uncaring and callous that I would buy foreign-made products without an extra "Fair Trade" cost - from a manufacturer that no longer has to worry about price competition

Anon, generally people who are unwilling to post under a name are not worth responding to, but I will this time. What countries with slave labor does Walmart get goods from?

I'm goin to wal mart and buyin some slave goods!

But I ain't buyin any Springsteen crap.

Springsteen doesn't need a guitar made of special wood, since he really doesn't do much with it.

Springsteen told the Times that his team didn't vet the issue as closely as he should have, and that he "dropped the ball on it."
Springsteen went on to say: "It was a mistake. Our batting average is usually very good, but we missed that one.

How convenient that it was *that one* that they happened to miss..

Anyone happen to know how much Springsteen's lapse in judgement added to his net worth?

A very, very bad show. Sprinsteen's voice is totally gone; he croaks. Most of the show was lip-synced. All the instrumental work was "lip-synced." Stage production awful, unconscious self-parody. Phony affected costumes and pseudo-dance moves. Skanks in background. Inane choice of music.

Bruce has finally become himself.

"Anonymous, I entered a Wal-Mart once. Am I now:"

Ah, I love it when people attack themselves to prove I'm doing so when in fact I'm not.

I won't deny that Wal-Mart is a great capitalist success story. They've crushed local competition, driven labor costs down to practical (and in many cases actual) non-existence, and they are ubiquitous throughout a good fraction of the world.

I for one feel the human cost of their success is too high. Offering low low prices by cutting out labor costs is an excellent business practice. It worked very well for southern cotton farmers for over a hundred years. However, it can be abhorrent to a moral person.

And no, I'm not calling you immoral, simply unaware.

"What countries with slave labor does Walmart get goods from?"

A lot of them are in Turkey and China, but these days they could be anywhere.

The practice goes like this; these factories recruit workers from poorer (usually neighboring) countries with promises of a better life.

Once they get there, the workers are kept isolated (usually under guard) in company barracks. Communications in and out are regulated; letters to and from family members are destroyed. Rooms are sub-standard, food is inadequate, and working hours are long over local regulations. Beatings to insure behaviour are not unusual.

Since these people are often illegal immigrants who don't speak the local language, they are unable to come forward to authorities to report conditions.

There is one major industry in the US that operates on a similar principle: the sex industry. A lot of prostitution in larger cities follows this model.

If one major fault of liberals is a coldness to the sacredness of the individual, then one major fault of conservatives is difficulty in seeing the larger and longer term things in the world.

When the half time show came on I figured it would be a good time to go to the bathroom. With a good book it usually takes me about 15 minutes.

I detest Bruce Springsteen and the left street band. His new song "Building on a dream" is just terrible. I will never listen to that lefist asshole's music again. I sold all of his cd's that I owned to a used music store and bought toilet papet, soap, and tucks wipes.

Go away Bruce you are no longer welcome in America.

Gee, Anon, you sure know a lot of the in's and out's of slave labor.

What exactly do YOU do for work? No wait...I know. Community organizer!

The government needs to be run like Wal-Mart.

"What exactly do YOU do for work?"

Right now, teacher assistant for a special education classroom. I'm working towards my degree. I also volunteer with an organization that works with autistic children. I donate blood, am on the national bone marrow donor registry (no calls yet), and my feces is pleasantly floral scented. (Ok, not so much on the last one.)