dave meleney is right

Posting in response to the debate between Jason Furman and Barbara Ehrenreich on the impact of Wal-Mart, one dave meleney said

Barbara Ehrenreich, claims that she is unfairly pitted against a professional economist in her polite disagreement with Jason Furman about the "social benefits" of WalMart, but that doesn't stop her from claiming that: "The problem isn't Wal-Mart, we critics like to say, it's the Wal-Martization of the entire economy, which involves not only low wages at Wal-Mart itself but depressed wages throughout the company's whole supply chain as well as at competing companies (e.g., supermarkets)."

If you have traveled in China and seen how the suppliers to WalMart and the other big box retailers have been such a key force in the quadrupling of incomes in so many areas....it simply takes your breath away that such a smart and good hearted writer could speak as if these Chinese workers don't even exist. Isn't it ironic that those on the left who seem to care so passionately about the poor....don't even see the poorest among us?

How could she envision that "the company's whole supply chain" doesn't include the workers who actually make the affordable air conditioners, auto parts, and clothes that make life so much better for those of us who depend on WalMart every month.