Lo barato puede salirte caro

Me encontre un articulo que me parecio interesante, no por su originalidad, (pues mirane que aa Wal-Mart le tiran fuerte y seguido), sino porque muestra lo que siempre discuto con la gente que AMA las horrorosas tiendas gigantes que les “ahorran” dinero. Lo triste es que el final, todo se reduce a pura politica.

Wal-Mart’s China imports cost 200.000 U.S. jobs

Wal-Mart claims it creates jobs across the U.S., but a new report shows a different reality.

The giant retailer’s reliance on cheap goods made in China has cost the U.S. nearly 200,000 jobs since 2001, says the report. The Wal-Mart Effect, by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

The report shows Wal-Mart has played a major role in creating a record trade deficit with China that has eliminated some 1.8 million jobs, mainly in manufacturing.

The U.S. trade deficit with China reached a whopping $233 billion – 11 percent of the total. This year fist-quarter $45.4 billion total deficit is twice as large as in the same period last year.

The U.S. trade deficit with China between 1997 and 2006 has displaced production that would have supported about 2.2 million U.S. jobs, according to EPI. Most of these jobs (1.8 million) have been lost since China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

Economist Robert Scott, author of the EPI report says. “Now we know the impact that import from China to the world’s largest retailer has on our nation’s jobs. What’s good for Wal-Mart in not always good for U.S. workers.”

REALLY????????