[Destroyer]

You're all wrong, and you're all right. The problem is that we've farmed out most of our manufacturing jobs. We turned from being a manufacturing nation to being a service nation a long time ago. NAFTA was the start, and in truth, we've now hearing the giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the country that Ross Perot warned us about in his first run for the presidency.

Of course, there are also other reasons for our prediciment.. each one of them building on the back of the others. Kinda like a snowball rolling downhill. I do not pretend to know all the answers, so I'm not going to even try to preach them, but I do know that Willy pretty much nailed it when he said that the 2012 elections will determine the fate of our country more than any other election in our history. We MUST stop the dependancy of people relying on the government for their very existance.
41% of the population in this country pay no taxes. We've got to get them to start paying their fair share...and the way we do that is to provide them with the training they need and the jobs that will result so they can start earning a living. Government cannot create jobs, but it can foster an economic climate that makes it desirable to start a company. Right now, there's a climate of uncertainy. Company's are not hiring because they don't know what the future holds in the form of regulations. We've got to change that.

And as much as I agree with the Walmart wanting to make money comment, lets also not forget that over 50,000 people in this country depend on Wal-Mart for their jobs....to say nothing of the millions and millions of people that depend on them for cheap goods that they need in order to just survive. They, like any other company, are in business to make money. They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to do so. That's why they are in business. No company is in business to lose money.