just a quick thought on the side
a tangent, in other words

I think globalization is going to reduce ALL Americans, save the professional classes, to working for pitifully low wages. So, i don't have much hope for getting substantially higher wages for Wal-Mart employees. Benifits, yes. $12 an hour, no.

Here's a quote from around 1890, uttered by Brooks Adams, younger brother of Henry. People saw globalization coming way back then:

ALL CIVILIZATION IS CENTRALIZATION
ALL CENTRALIZATION IS ECONOMIZATION
THE WORLD GRAVITATES TOWARD ECONOMIC CENTRALIZATION
THEREFORE
ASIA IS CHEAPER THAN EUROPE
THEREFORE ASIA THRIVES
AND EUROPE DIES.

I'd just change "Asia" to 3rd world, and "Europe" to The Industrial World.

I predict Ford is planning to shift production to Mexico. It might have to be done gradually, over 15 years, but why wouldn't they? They might even make phoney BAD decisions, on purpose, to create phoney crises, so as to have an excuse to do so!

Go into nursing. Join or create a commune, co-op, or intentional community (see the tribe by that name). Because the world is gravitating.

Logan