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 quit shopping wal mart when they started swiping drivers licenses for beer purchases. I don’t want to be part of their data base.
Sam Walton promoted keeping and returning jobs to the U.S. ;remember the "xx jobs created in somewhere,U.S." ?Those signs and that policy didn't outlive ol' Sam by long.
Because lefties are commies china and other assorted commies are the largest suppliers to wal-mart
Aint to hard to connect the dots !
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
by David Horowitz
#61-good point!
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