Posted on 08/08/2007 7:12:03 AM PDT by vadum
Wal-Mart, the family-friendly, patriotic company founded by the late Sam Walton has morphed into a reliable ally of the left to boost revenues by pacifying its growing chorus of critics. It now funds radical groups and intimidates its suppliers into adopting its liberal, Big Government agenda...
Wal-Mart once had Hillary Clinton on its corporate board; calls for socialized medicine for all Americans; funds La Raza, and has been accused by the federal government of hiring illegal immigrants; prods suppliers to hire more women and visible minorities, and bullies them into adopting “sustainable” practices.
Yet it generates anger – outright hatred, at times— among left-wing Americans.
Some liberals have sold out. Although former Sierra Club president Adam Werbach once called Wal-Mart a “virus, infecting and destroying American culture,” it hired him in 2006 as an environmental consultant......
Hillary Clinton rarely discusses her time on Wal-Mart's board (1986-1992). She often advocated hiring more women in management and for a comprehensive environmental program, although she said little about the company’s anti-union philosophy.
While she rejected a donation from Wal-Mart in 2005, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, speaks frequently with Wal-Mart’s chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr. Moreover, Mrs. Clinton even brokered a secret meeting between Wal-Mart spin doctor Leslie Dach (himself a longtime Democratic operative) and union leaders......
Wal-Mart is now bullying its 60,000 suppliers worldwide into adopting its workplace diversity and environmental goals.
Starting next year, consumer electronics suppliers will have to fill out a “scorecard” outlining the environmental sustainability of their products.
More ominous is Wal-Mart’s “Supplier Diversity Program” which will judge suppliers on the diversity of their workplaces. It could impose de facto job quotas on the private sector without government intervention.
Wal-Mart’s sheer size and influence over the marketplace make it difficult for suppliers to say no......
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Uninsured in America examines the conventional wisdom that 45 million Americans cannot get health insurance and consequently do not have access to health care.
Uninsured in America examines the conventional wisdom that 45 million Americans cannot get health insurance and consequently do not have access to health care. (2007) Run Time: 9:03
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Uninsured in America is part of the Free Market Cure Video Series created by filmmaker Stuart Browning to inform Americans about the dangers of collectivized medicine and the benefits of free markets in health care.
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“More ominous is Wal-Mart’s “Supplier Diversity Program” which will judge suppliers on the diversity of their workplaces. It could impose de facto job quotas on the private sector without government intervention.”
I wonder how diverse are the Red Chinese workplaces where so many of Wallmart’s products are manufactured?
It’s simple really. The right wing conservatives believe in capitalism and therefore pose no threat to the continued existence of Wal-Mart even if they despise the retailer. The left-wing liberal socialists and quasi-communists despise Wal-Mart and will use their big-government powers to terminate it. Wal-Mart consequently desires to endear itself to liberals and to associate itself with their causes to the extent that the regulatory or legal elimination of Wal-Mart hurts those who would promulgate such regulations. Wal-Mart simply plays the political game and wants to associate with the winning liberals.
Just goes to show once again that pandering to nutballs (either of the leftist or Islamist variety) never works, and more often than not has effects exactly opposite of those intended.
When you take all the bad press against Walmart, it adds up to a political shakedown. Once Walmart begins donating to the left, the retoric stops, just like it did with Microsoft.
I've spent my last peso in your store.
Hear hear. I also hate the fact the Republicans accepted the color switch (in 2000) without protest, and that within a very short period of time forgot that the switch even took place. The Dems had always despised the Dems = Red = Communism connection, and their friends in the MSM relieved them of that concern forever. And the Pubbies: "Oh, we're red now? Ok, no prob. Thank you sir, may I have another?"
It’s simple. The founder died. The hired help doesn’t know and never knew the “secret” that made the company grow, so they are killing it with whatever management fad is “in” this month.
It's really that simple.
It's all about "duh yoonyin".
Money talks, and BS walks!
It IS that simple. Like it or no.
MV
It was very clever, insidious and perfidious of the MSM to switch the colors and make the Conservatives or Republicans use the communist colors.
The 2 largest battles in the world now are Islam against the West and rational thought, and the left against America and freedom. I don’t know if there’s much difference between Islam and the left socialist, communists. They’re all of a piece.
Same here. God, I hate this. Can’t depend on nothin’.
bttt
It’s simple. The founder died. The hired help doesn’t know and never knew the “secret” that made the company grow...
Add me to the chorus. Although the Democrats wholeheartedly support Leftists causes, they do not want to be called Leftists.
As for the Republicans, they are clueless or gutless (or both).
I have pretty much given up on WalMart...they certainly have low prices and employ a lot of un-employable types...but the quality of the stuff there is crap and really not cheap...I really donot care for the management either and I hate the way WM has caved to the Left!!
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