People don’t think of consequences

A “hooray for me and the heck with you” attitude is the situation with Wal-Mart expanding in the Puget Sound area. People are getting to the point where they don’t care about anybody but themselves. Wal-Mart has made itself rich off of the backs of close to almost slave labor wages, benefits and working conditions. The stores move into small towns and drive local people out of business with low prices that change to higher prices after they drive their competition out and their working conditions down.

The greedy people who support them think the cheap prices they pay for items are great, even if a very large percentage of their merchandise is made in third-world countries (cheap labor).

Then, what goes around comes around. All of a sudden, some of these people’s jobs are outsourced, then they cry like babies over the injustice that they well deserve. You have to remember that one hand feeds the other. Stop and think, could this be you?

ERNEST SCHMIDT

Lynnwood