Here's Something I Haven't Done in a While: WAL-MART BASHING!!!
First, watch this (It's short):
So, I heard a commercial on the radio this morning bashing Wal-Mart, which, frankly, one of my favorite types of commercials because I think Wal-Mart is one of the dirtiest, most dishonest, exploitationist companies on the planet. In fact it probably is THE most dirtiest, dishonest, exploitationist company on the planet. So, they direct you to visit WakeUpWalMart.com, a site that exhorts Wal-Mart to do the right thing. Think Wal-Mart will EVER do the right thing? I don't. They have forced companies that supply them (and Wal-Mart is their biggest buyer) to outsource to other countries, especially China, to keep production costs low so Wal-Mart will buy from them.
Republicans like to say us Liberals aren't "American" enough. That's bull. We care about our country and our people. We care about our safety, both physically and economically. Republicans don't, which is why they allow companies like Wal-Mart to run about helter-skelter with other big businesses that control Congress with their lobbies. Pretty sad.
Anyway, check out WakeUpWalMart.com. It's a pretty neat site.
7 comments:
cute site. more anti walmart rhetoric? try americansforwalmart.org
here's an excerpt.
Wal-Mart employs 1.2 million Americans – and supports 3 million US supplier jobs.
– A 2005 Harvard study estimates – conservatively – that Americans are saving $16 billion a year by shopping at Wal-Mart instead of its competition and another $16 billion shopping at other retailers because of the competition Wal-Mart represents.1
– A 2005 Global Insight study found that the cumulative downward pressure on pricing exerted by Wal-Mart between 1985 and 2004 was now saving U.S. consumers $263 billion a year – or $2,329 per household.2
– When Wal-Mart comes to town, retail prices drop 8 percent in rural areas and 5 percent in urban locales.1
– A UBS Warburg study found that a cart of groceries was 17 to 40 percent cheaper at Wal-Mart than it was elsewhere.5
– Wal-Mart paid $5.5 billion in taxes last year.6
By creating and filling 100,000 new positions this year, Wal-Mart is providing important and welcome employment opportunities. As such, Wal-Mart is moving people off public assistance, not putting them on.
Fifty-seven percent of new Wal-Mart hires are coming from outside the ranks of the employed. When you create lots of entry-level opportunities, you are going to hire some people on public assistance. In this, Wal-Mart isn’t adding to the public burden but reducing it. For example, 7 percent of new Wal-Mart associates are enrolled in Medicaid before joining the company. After joining, the number drops to 5 percent. After two years, it falls to 3 percent.
You are wrong and these studies are so wrong on so many levels and are so out of context, I'm not even going to disseminate them for you. But here's some links:
Frontline: Is wal-mart good for america? PBS
Critics Say Wal-Mart Grows Part-Timers to Cut Benefits - washingtonpost.com
Criticism of Wal-Mart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, and never mind that WalMart employees make next to nothing and can't afford health coverage and they force people to be dependent on them and remain poor and climbing the corporate ladder is not an option for 99% of employees...
I know I can't convince a closed mind, but look at last week's business week and discover that walmart gave $250 to charity, far more than any other corporation
closed mind--- I'll say. instead of just posting links that happen to support what you think, how about responding to that first comment for real?
I don't need to. The internet is replete with overwhelming damning evidence against Walmart and I've blogged about it before. Also, read Senator Byron Dorgan's "Take This Job and Ship It."
End of conversation... :)
Oh, and let's not talk about closed minds, Mr. or Ms. Super Republican...
fine. the internet is replete with "overwhelming damning evidence" that's very PRO walmart too, and I can refer YOU to a book too, but you wouldn't bother reading it. And when did I say I was a republican? I can be a pro Walmart democrat, no?
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