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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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”.
Thanks. I’m just looking for any hope that a Hillary or Obama presidency won’t actually happen.
Yep, it's exactly like paying "protection" money to the Mob.
Disneyfication of Wal Mart
Ok, let's do some alternating. In '80 the incumbent party supposedly switched to red, so Carter was red and Reagan blue. Again, the GOP in blue. In '84 the incumbent party supposedly switched back to blue, so Reagan would be blue again.
The GOP=blue / Dem=red should've broken down in '88 when, according to your link, the incumbent party would switch to red again. Problem is that in that election the incumbent GHWB was blue and his challenger Dukakis red. So the GOP=blue designation continued unabated, as I originally stated.
And as my source points out, GOP should be blue in 08.
My original point stands: prior to 2000 the GOP was always blue. .....at least back to the late 60s. (Not sure about before then).
There are just too many liberals in Detroit to make MI competitive.
As for whether the method will be followed in 08, who knows. A lot of GOP rednecks like the red designation.
If it is a real, real big problem, the "true conservative" base could agitate for Bush to appoint a bipartisan commission to recommend a procedure/method to be used into eternity. Can you imagine all the fireworks that would create when Congress tried to legislate and act?
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