Posted on 11/22/2012 8:08:31 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
About 20 people gathered in front of the Oakland Walmart store on Edgewater Drive Wednesday to demand better pay and work schedules.
Richmond Walmart store employee Anthony Bravo joined fellow demonstrators and said the company starts associates at minimum wage, but reported $15 billion in profits last year.
“We didn’t see nothing. I didn’t see none of that. It really makes me upset that they can make all of this money out of profits and we’re barely surviving,” Bravo said.
With the chant of “Walmart, Walmart you’re no good. Treat your workers like you should,” Bravo and the others marched through the stores with signs for about 10 minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
The myopia of the Free Traitor is terminal. It is a religion and Rush Limbaugh is their High Priest.
The employers had no choice to move to Communist China to escape these unreasonable high wages.
All this while big gov flooded the country with tens of millions of low wage illegals...
It's a win win...Just look at the economy!
PROBLEM: “We didn’t see nothing. I didn’t see none of that. It really makes me upset that they can make all of this money out of profits and we’re barely surviving,” Bravo said.
SOLUTION: Gather all of your friends together, pool your money and start your own Y’all Mart.....
Problem solved.
LOL. Good one!
Jobs are gone because manufacturers prefer to set up shop in foreign countries well away from:
* Massive corporate taxation
* Limitless legal vulnerability
* Crushing environmental regulation
* Pro-Union arbitrary Government
* Ludicrously high minimum wages
* And now: Obamacare
These are the reasons why industry chooses to locate away from the USA. But you choose to blame free trade - as if American manufacturers shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy the same freedom of association that you want for yourself.
Protectionism would be the final nail in America’s coffin. The last vestiges of American industry would be turned into feather-bedded welfare cases, and freeborn Americans would be forced to buy their stuff from the Government store.
Protectionism would also increase Government power. The Dems would gleefully collect all of that lovely tariff money and spend it on union pension bailouts or some damn thing.
America has tied its own hands behind its back with a ludicrous knot of EPA regulations, crushing taxation and arbitrary Government (just ask Gibsons guitars).
America needs to untie those knots - not wrap itself up in more of them in a fit of misplaced faux-patriotic anger.
And off shoring didn’t have anything to do with the myriad of government agencies making business too expensive if not downright impossible in some locales, right?
>>And what had globalism brought us? Lowered living standards, lowered wages, and a bleak future for our children. Until we adopt an economic policy that returns manufacturing to the US, and a protectionist (yeah, I said it) policy that treats jobs as a precious natural resources to be cherished and protected, things will only get worst. If we conservatives don’t do this, I’m afraid a left-wing workers’ revolution will do it for us.<<
Can I get you a hanky?
Not gonna happen and protectionism in this day and age is economic suicide. The USA would never recover.
Yours is far from a Conservative stance — it is a liberal Union stance.
Conservatives live in the Real World, first and foremost.
When the Framers conceived the concept of “freedom of association”, moving good American jobs to some Fourth World sh#thole is not what they had in mind.
That is aiding and abetting the enemy. It is also creating democrats, the old Reagan Democrats are no more.
>>Come now...There is no such thing as corporate greed<<
I am sorry, you must be on the wrong board, based on the underlying idea of how Capitalism works from that statement.
KOS and DU — 4 doors to the left.
“Conservatives live in the Real World, first and foremost.”
The “real world” of “creative destruction”, “free trade” and objectivism? That’s as much of a fantasy as communism.
I assume you support the ideas of “minimum wage” and “living wage” as well (lol)
Why don’t all retailers just pay all their employees at least $100,000 a year, give them expense accounts and free medical care for their entire extended families?
It must be because all employers are greedy republicans who don’t like poor people.
I bet there is racism involved as well.
/s
The Communist country is offering a better business climate than the United States!! Hell, in Hong Kong, I can have a business up and running legally in twenty four hours. Try that in the United States (Jon Stossel literally did a documentary on this).
Look, I don't like it any better than you but our government is hostile towards business and our government is now backed by unions and the "takers" as this last election has shown. Give it enough time, we'll start building here again as we will be a communist country soon ourselves at the rate we are going.
>>The “real world” of “creative destruction”, “free trade” and objectivism? That’s as much of a fantasy as communism.<<
The only way to stop global trade is to put hte UN i control of all trade — your paradise.
Learn how economics and more importantly capitalism work.
Then the fat corps bribed and bankrolled the politico's campaigns with millions to keep those borders open. Feed that low wage golden goose!
Now most of the employers got millions of illegal employees who see 5 minute breaks as company benefits! And they work with a smile for 8 bucks an hour!
A win win!
They’re not ‘good American jobs’. They’re jobs which can no longer be done profitably by Americans because of (and here I have to repeat myself):
* Massive corporate taxation
* Limitless legal vulnerability
* Crushing environmental regulation
* Pro-Union arbitrary Government
* Ludicrously high minimum wages
* Obamacare
I should probably add:
* a workforce that (in WalMart’s case) seems to think that it’s entitled to a share of corporate profits over and above what it contracted for.
* a workforce that apparently believes that other Americans owe them a living.
“I assume you support the ideas of “minimum wage” and “living wage” as well (lol)”
The US economy grew like a weed on steroids in the 1950s and 1960s when we had both of those things. So your point is?
See post 36.
Yuk yuk...
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