Walmart’s Response To The New York Times Is Great

http://news.yahoo.com ^ | June 22, 2014 | The Daily Caller

[NKP_Vet]

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, recently decided to go into the newspaper editing business.

The Arkansas-based company responded to an article from New York Times columnist Timothy Egan, titled “The Corporate Daddy” by doing the work that it felt Egan’s Times editors should have done.

“Thanks for sharing your first draft,” reads a red-inked note from Walmart, which is known more for its low prices than its snark.

“Below are a few thoughts to ensure something inaccurate doesn’t get published,” continued the note, which was posted at Walmart’s blog and is attributed to David Tovar, Walmart’s director of corporate communications.

The retail giant apparently couldn’t resist sarcasm after it found what it considered numerous problems with Egan’s piece in which he criticized the company for paying its 2.2 million employees what he called “humiliating wages.”

“Walmart is a net drain on taxpayers,” wrote Egan in the missive, adding that the company forces “employees into public assistance with its poverty-wage structure.

“We are the largest tax payer in America,” Tovar wrote in his edit. “Can we see your math?”

“We see more associates move off of public assistance as a result of their job at Walmart,” Tovar wrote.

Egan argued that “most advanced nations” look for ways to boost the middle class but that the U.S. had ceased doing that. “Witness the G.I. Bill, which helped millions of returning soldiers get a lift to a better life,” wrote the Times columnist.

“Did you know?” Tovar quizzed. “Walmart has hired more than 42,000 veterans this year.”

[kcvl]

I’ll just use what you have said to others:

What a ‘concern troll’ you are, running from thread to thread pissing on everyone’s happiness.

What a turd you are.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3166050/posts?page=429#429

[Mase]

In any case Walmart's sales are pushing $400 billion per year so their U.S. commitment represents a fraction of their total sales.

What *should* their commitment be? What's the correct amount in your mind? Should government require them to purchase a specific quantity of goods from American companies?

[Mase]

Walmart could go a long way to increasing the manufacturing in this country by buying more American products.

If only our benevolent government would force them to do so, right? Only government can right the inherent wrongs of the private sector, right?

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Is this idiot willing to give some of his ill-gotten gains to the poor?

Hey, what about me? I’m a widow trying to live on $700 a month ; were it not for my family I’d be out on the street.

How about passing some of that green my way?

Hypocrite.

[FourtySeven]

Yet many Italians would not think of moving 40 miles from where their family has lived forever."

Which my wife (who is Italian) hates about Italy. The tendency of the "children" there to not only stay "close to home" but actually live IN the home they grew up in until (and yes unless) they get married. Even well into their 40's! Yes that's the "children's" age, staying at home.

A friend of my wife is constantly harassed by her family because she has the temerity to live away from them even while she isn't married.

So who's really for women's "rights" again Joni?

I don't suspect this couple got out much in their time in Italy. At least not to talk to anyone in a real sense.

[kcvl]

That figures... they sound so elitist and want us to believe they know how anyone else lives.

[FourtySeven]

Exactly. If they even heard about it the (I suspect few) friends they had there probably convinced them Italians are perfectly happy with their children living at home well into their forties, so they turn a blind eye to the practice, and praise it to all their friends on 5th Avenue to make themselves look like distinguished world travelers.

Meanwhile they’d disparage the same practice here in the states. Hypocrites.

[morphing libertarian]

In the interest of income equality see if he can get you a job at the Times for his salary.

[lonestar]

bttt

[DoodleDawg]

What *should* their commitment be? What's the correct amount in your mind? Should government require them to purchase a specific quantity of goods from American companies?

Walmart will buy from wherever they want to buy from.

[Organic Panic]

I always wondered the hate leftists have for Walmart. I worked there a couple years through colelge as a mechanic when they still did that. I was a young man and had a great time working there. It was pretty fun and the pay was quite fair. Plus, they hired the prettiest girls in the city to work there so that was definitely a good bonus. I didn’t make a career out of it but lots of my fellow Walmartians did make a career out of it and seemed quite content with their jobs.

[MrB]

Same reason they hate McDonalds -

McDonalds feeds billions of people on the cheap, something liberalism can’t ever do.

Walmart allows more people to live a better lifestyle for less money, something liberalism can’t do and liberals don’t want to do.

[Balding_Eagle]

have you looked at what you’ve done to the thread with your posts?

I’m not a ‘concern troll’, I’m a pissed off reader, interested in the content of the Wal-Mart story.

I’m not interested in the rantings of some poster who is determined to wreck the thread by leaving huge droppings all down the thread.

[Dexter Morgan]

This is why liberals do not expect monogamy or fidelity within a relationship.

[hinckley buzzard]

What is your major malfunction there, jerkwater? Drunk?

[kcvl]

Most people on here get it, too bad you don’t concern troll.

[kcvl]

I don’t drink, dipshit!

[Mase]

Yes, they will. Is that ok, or should they be required to buy only from American companies? You know, for the good of the country. Should Wal-Mart be driven by the market, and by providing products and services their customers want, or should they be buying things that other people, who don't work for Wal-Mart, believe are in the better interest of the country?