Wal Mart's Exploitive Practices Attacked By Website

Wake Up Wal-Mart ^

[Clintonfatigued]

Because of Wal-Mart's inadequate wages and benefits, Wal-Mart employees are eligible for $2.5 billion in Federal assistance, which comes from your tax dollars.

[MamaB]

There is a McComb down in the southern part of the state. I was wondering if that is what they meant.

[Gabz]

I have no idea. I am upfront and honest about my lack of knowledge of the state of Mississippi. Heck - I'm the same way about Virginia and I've lived here for 2 years :)

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I am kind of late to this thread,but I have read through it in it's entirety and I have to say, that I strongly disagree with everything you have to say!

I work at WALMART as an hourly associate and I get adequate compensation for the work I do!

I support a family of four, by myself and do not use any government handouts!

We have one used car,a computer and we still have a little money left over to go out once a month,after all the bills are payed!

It was my choice to work for WALMART after numerous places turned me down!

I have been with WALMART for 61/2 years and have always been treated fairly!

I don't live in a run down part of town and I own my own home!

My family is doing just fine with the money I make!

[Aliska]

It's getting so that I can't remember who I don't want to talk to and who doesn't want to talk to me. So I'll talk to you long enough to tell you that I don't know which sabbath to keep any more. Jesus kept Saturday and most Christians keep Sunday. Anyway, tomorrow I will take a break from this bickering and leave these poor people alone until Monday, God willing.

Now maybe in the meantime the whole thread will be pulled.

Tomorrow I plan to relax and outline my will which needs doing.

My comments on this thread are one of my best pieces of work of my life. I stood up to a mob. Now if I could only do that in real life, have all these people yelling and screaming at me and not back down. My kids said I never stuck up for them. They will know that I woke up and decided to stick up for somebody, starting with myself and Wal Mart employees who are unhappy. If the others are happy, I guess they don't need sticking up for, but there have to be others out there.

Then I need to get to work and try to find something to do to make my corner of the world a better place.

Guess I'll give what I have left to be divided and invested in the stock market and only take dividends for the first five years. I'll figure out the rest tomorrow. This has been eating away at me for years, and now I have an idea how to put that problem behind me.

Good night. May God have mercy on us all.

[durasell]

Okay!

[Casloy]

All for insulting your false idol of the market.

My free market lets people make decisions for themselves. Yeah, sometimes it messy and people are hurt in the process. But, your system brings the government in to tell people where they can and can't shop, how much they will pay, and what they need. Everyone suffers and it ALWAYS leads to tyranny. People who think someone else knows what is best for me are a far greater threat to my liberty than someplace like WALMART.

[A. Pole]

My free market lets people make decisions for themselves.

No, you don't. You have to obey the government as the free market utopia did not get actualized yet (and never will).

Free market society is a dream same way as Communism is. But in the process few will make a quick buck at the expense of others. With Communist utopia some will have fun putting others in Gulag. All while waiting for the utopia to come true.

[the_rightside]

You might know it United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is behind it. There are alot people shop at Wal-Mart because of their lower prices. Some with larger families that helps alot.

With unions its all about power for those at the top. The more union members, the more dues paid. Do the math.

[Casloy]

You have to obey the government as the free market utopia did not get actualized yet (and never will).

I don't think I ever used the word utopia. I don't believe in utopias as long as people are human. The difference between a free market and what you want is that if I don't like Walmart decisions I can walk away. If I don't like government decisions and walk away they throw me in jail. It's what your utopian government regulators do.

[Chef Dajuan]

Here's a simple equation for you, sister.

Pro-union = Bolshevik

[Chef Dajuan]

PS, Aliska. EVERYONE, no matter their station in life has UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITY in this great nation, OK?

I'm 18 years old and Black. I grew up in what you'd call "da 'hood". I didn't have much of anything growing up. My dad is im prison for manslaughetr and my mom is a hoe and a crackhead. My grandma raised me most of my life. But you know what? Through her I learned how to cook and a lifelong love of cooking and food preparation was born inside me. I've nurtured my dream of becoming a chef for as long as I can remember.

So I worked hard and paid attention and actually LEARNED something in awful inner city public schools, including a high school that could have been the shooting location for "Cooley High".

I also immediately got a job at 16 in a restaurant, willing to learn the business from the ground up. In less than 2 years I worked my way from doing scut work to being a line cook and sous chef. I've been accepted to one of the top ten culinary arts schools in the country and I have enough saved to pay for most oif my first year. I also applied for several scholarships through the James Beard Foundation and they tell me I'll probably get one. Even if I have to go into debt with student loans I will because its an investment in my future that will repay itself many times over.

Now If I can do it and bring myself this far in life why do you insist on demeaning people who are perfectly capable of doing the same for themselves by conferring upon them the "victim status" that you liberals, (yes, I said YOU liberals, for you've yet to present any proof you're REALLY a conservative, but plenty pf proof to the contrary.)

No, I don't know everything about Economics except for the authors I've listed for you and A. Pole to read. I do know that capitalism has given more opportunity to more people than any other system ever devised by man.

But I DO know that while there's no sin or disgrace in being born poor, there sure is remaining so.

[Chef Dajuan]

That line should read "...that you liberals insist on conferring to others unwilling to rise above their present circumstances."

My bad.

[Chef Dajuan]

Well, since you already said you won't talk to me I'll say this much

ANYONE who buys a house without having either a home inspection made or having an architect look at it before making an offer DOES deserve what they get.

Like the Vonage commercial says,m people do stupid things.

Its not the governmnent's JOB under the Constitution to protect people from their OWN stupidity. Show me where it says that in any of the eighteen enumerated powers they were given.

[Chef Dajuan]

" As for myself, I do have mental health problems"

______________________________________________________

That explains a lot.

"Rick, I'm shocked, shocked, you hear me. Shocked to discover that gambling is going on here!"
-Claude Rains in "Casablanca"

[Chef Dajuan]

Now I KNOW you're a Bolshevik.

[Chef Dajuan]

Sweetehart, I have a very good friend back home in Cleveland who less than a year ago was living at a mission. he took a job doing janitorial work for $9/hr.

Today he has a decent, if small apartment downtown just up the street from his job. he has enough left over to eat out occasionally, see a movie or go to a concert, and indulge in his true love of music. He bought a decent guitar and amp.

So don't come here and tell us that he's not doing pretty good for himself in a short time. Don't gimme that "only in the South" horse hockey. Yoy're not only a socialist, but a horrible elitist - regional and economic - as well.

As my dear Nana would have said...you don't know sh*t from shinola.

[Chef Dajuan]

(((((HUGS))))

That is what I call courage.

And serenity.

My best to you.

[A. Pole]

If I don't like government decisions and walk away they throw me in jail.

It is utopian to think that the government can or should go away.

[Ruddles]

Thanks BC, for catching my drift.

[Nowhere Man]

My comments on this thread are one of my best pieces of work of my life. I stood up to a mob. Now if I could only do that in real life, have all these people yelling and screaming at me and not back down. My kids said I never stuck up for them. They will know that I woke up and decided to stick up for somebody, starting with myself and Wal Mart employees who are unhappy. If the others are happy, I guess they don't need sticking up for, but there have to be others out there.

Yeah, we need more of that in the world, people sticking up for others. I know there are times I wish someone would have stuck up for me along with times I should have stuck up for someone else.

One book series I'm starting to read is J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter," I saw the first two movies and I liked the premise of the first movie that could be applied here. I remember towards the end where Harry, Hermoine and Ron were going down below Hogwarts to take on Voldemort but one of their fellow Gryffendor Housemates tried to stop them for the sake of Gryffendor honor. Each of the four Houses were in competition for points to see who had the best House at the end of the school year. Well, the three heroes froze their Housemate so they could go on. Well at the end of the year, Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts was tallying up the points and Gryffendor and Slitherin were tied and Dumbledore awarded a 10 entra points to Gryffendor because of their friend who wanted to stand up to his friends because he felt they were doing the wrong thing even though he failed to stop them.

One saying that I take to mind that Albus Dumbledore said after the award was "it takes great courage to stand up to your enemies, it takes greater courage to stand up to your friends" when you know they are doing wrong.

I know there are some who take Ayn Rand to heart with her writings but I know myself, I'm more of a reader of writers in the Victorian/Edwardian era as well as the muckrakers of the time such as Jack London, L. Frank Baum, David Graham Phillips, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Drieser and some others. Even though some of them advocated pure socialism which I don't agree with, understanding that it was untested at the times they wrote their books, they did a great job at showing the problems in society at that time with power and money in too few hands as well as show a possible window to where we are headed in the future. Charles Dickens is another favorite of mine too.

I think all in all, we are seeing new paradigms that go beyond the muckrakers, socialists and capitalists to where either or will not be a true viable way of answering the ills and problems we have in society. We could be on the cusp of more automation in the future where a lot of jobs will be taken by robots, what then? I really don't know. I know I've eluded to some Third Way ideas, I am open minded enough to say that we need to take a look at some of those ideas, perhaps we need a synergy of government, business and labor to achieve our goals.

In some ways government has to be th first to take a step, I know when Columbus sailed to the New World, Queen Isabella, well government funded the way. Thomas Jefferson, again government opened the way to the West. Same with my one of my pet programs, space travel. After a while, let private enterprise or a combination of government/business take over, or let anyone who has the will enter the arena.

I really don't see government as evil although in recent years, it has done a lot of evils like Elian Gonzales, Waco, and who slew of other things, but I think it boils down to the lack of accountibilty and responsibility that it isn't held to by the people. I know I went on how big business should be held responsible and accountible, so should government. The keys are accountibility and responsibility.

Wal-Mart, well, it's much bigger than that but it sticks out like a sore thumb so in a way, the topic and discussion of Wal-Mart is like a symbol of the bigger picture in all of this.