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!!
I LIKE the red for the GOP.
Red is for energy and action. Blue is for depression, apathy etc. Quite fitting.
I don’t even buy ammo there anymore.
Does anyone remember the run up to this election. What were they saying about Mondale’s chances? Was it anything like today where so many are sure a dem’s going to take the white house?
Presently, the foundation of Walmarts profits are not built on American hard work or ingenuity but slave labor in global sweatshops.
I went to a WM store a couple years ago to buy some ammo and on the way out noticed a rack of flannel shirts at incredibly low prices ($9 per shirt). So I thought what the heck and bought a few. Within a year every last one of them fell apart -- buttons, fabric, color ....everything. Lesson learned.
But overall, I agree, the people are rude, the stores are dirty, and I would never touch most of their products.
As some have said.......this outfit sells junk. They want socialized medicine? Why are their prescription drugs higher in cost than other stores? Try owning a small business and attempt to deal with Walmart. They will bury you in a matter of 3-4 years. If you want to sell to them, they want all of your financial records so they can see if they can cut your prices as low as possible. We told them to take a hike.
Because greed really isn’t a conservative ideal.
I avoid Walmarts in general. Now this makes me feel even better.
Their stuff is junk, the stores out here are dominated by those who cannot speak English (at all!). Unruly kids running through the aisles over dropped merchandise.
When I enter our local store, it feels like I have left the US and am in some 3rd world hell hole.
Oh, and the store smells.
I *despise* Walmart and all that it stands for: Terrible Customer Support, Apathetic Employees, products with shoddy workmanship, and so on.
Everything we’ve ever bought from our Walmart has fallen apart. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for!
By the time the tagline “Fritz&Tits” hit the wild, everyone pretty much knew it was over. I didn’t know too many people who thought Mondale actually had a shot. It was very similar to Dole vs Clinton, you knew what was going to happen LONG before the election. But it was also akin to the Kerry campaign, guarded optimism from the left, then lambasting him the next day and saying what a sorry excuse for a candidate he was.
The colour thing was never set in stone but from what I read the general practice was to give blue to the party of the incumbant and red to the challenger. The trouble is the 2000 election is seared into the minds of the dims and seems to have made the colours permanent now.
eeevil Wally ping.
Pretty diverse, I would imagine. They have political dissedents, religious prisoners, common crooks, falsely accused slave labor, child slave labor, adult slave labor,....
Not true. In fact, a lie calculated to take the heat off the MSM for the switch.
Looking at NY, you can see that it is even mostly red. The blue spots coincide EXACTLY with the cities, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse (and the res), Albany, NYC, and Watertown and Plattsburg in the North Country.
Are you saying the pubs prior to the 2000 election were always represented by blue?
What happened to Alaska?
Oh, a snow storm! Never mind.
The other thing it doesn’t show is the counties/states where the votes were within one half of a percent - the totally split regions (such as my county). It seems pretty silly to call such a region red or blue in expectation of predicting how they think, act, or will vote in the future.
I’m going to pull out my conspiracy theory and tinfoil hat and say the MSM delibrately manipulated the color change, because they were stung too many times by people making the comparison between the “red” democrats and communism.
Makes sense.
No kidding, look at my “blue state” of Michigan. The GOP in their vast wisdom seem to have written us off as unwinnable.
The left has realized that corporate America makes a formidable political ally and agent of social change, so it’s an extension of the Long March through the institutions. Big business needs to influence regulations to hamstring smaller competition and to subsidize its own operating costs. It’s a symbiosis of parasites.
The left has realized that blackmailed corporate America makes into a formidable political ally and agent of social change
I agree with that. Sam Walton must be spinning like a top.
When conservatives added significance to this color designation due to the 2000 election, that stopped.
Nope. The GOP nominee was designated in blue in every election (prior to 2000) dating back decades.
I like Red too. It’s the first color in “Red, White, and Blue”.
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