Posted on 09/16/2006 6:51:22 AM PDT by bitt
Liberal campaign hurts people who need bargains
Evergreen Park, Ill., a suburb contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city, and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African-American. One of whom, a woman pushing a shopping cart with a stoical 3-year-old along for the ride, has a chip on her shoulder about the size of this 141,000 square-foot Wal-Mart. She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down because, she said, the person doing the hiring "had an attitude."
So why is the woman shopping here anyway? She looks at the questioner as though he is dimwitted and directs his attention to the low prices of the DVDs on the rack next to her.
Sensibly, she compartmentalizes her moods and her money. Besides, she should not brood. She had lots of company in not being hired: More than 25,000 people applied for the 325 openings.
Which vexes liberals like John Kerry. (He and his helpmeet last shopped at Wal-Mart when?) In 2004 he tested what has become one of the Democrats' 2006 themes: Wal-Mart is, he said, "disgraceful"and symbolic of "what's wrong with America."
By now, Democrats have succeeded, to their embarrassment (if they are susceptible to that), in making the basic numbers familiar: The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel.
A McKinsey company study concluded that Wal-Mart accounted for 13 percent of the nation's productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s, ...
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"Who brags about being an EX Texan anyway?"
A man who's heart and leftist soul is in Oregon?
It's not a Notre Dame Game. My team is kicking their chloeca. (ask your doc friends).
Do you mean "cloaca"?
Yes, various spellings on what dictionary is used.
"bug time?" That's what I get for typing with a cheeseburger in my hand.
Thanks for the ping Gabz, it's not the first time we've seen it, is it?
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is engaged in covert criminal activity against W-M.
On every occasion that there has been a union certification election at W-M by the UFCW Union it has been soundly rejected by W-M employees.
The leftists, in true socialist form think they know what's best for the little people who are employed by W-M and are therefore going to unionize them, whether the people want them or not.
The poster who posted a link to W-MWatch.com, may as well have posted a link to moveon.org too, as WMWatch is wholly owned and operated by the UCFW.
I do not engage in anti union rants as I am a 30 plus year retired member of a union but the UFCW is a criminal organization.
Sam Walton said it best: If "local businesses" are being run out by Wal-Mart, it is because the former have not adapted to the times.
Wal-Mart started as a five-and-dime discounter. There's no reason anyone else couldn't have done what Walton did. And there's no "nostalgia exemption" for hometown, Main Street, Norman Rockwell type businesses that use outmoded concepts of merchandising, supply, and retail. If they are crushed by the leaner, more limber organization, tough.
Blanket allegations about unions stirring up trouble for WM miss the point:
No, they ARE the point. Like all parasites, unions want a fat host they can prey on. There's not much money in mom-and-pop shops, but Wal-Mart has deep pockets.
Local folks are angry today and fighting back.
"Angry" about what? "Fighting back" against what? Lower prices? Values? An organization determined to bring consumers the best products they can at the absolute lowest cost? Yep, there's sure something to storm the Bastille about!
WM is a giant corporation with millions to burn.
Actually, it's more like billions. And they earned every dime. Nobody GAVE them anything. They got where they are by supplying a superior product or service at a lower price. That was the cornerstone of Walton's creed, and it binds Wal-Mart today.
They have won some battles, but the war is still going on in Oregon.
Yeah, there's a "war" you lose when you "win."
"I only purchase U.S. products, made in the U.S., with U.S. parts, by U.S. workers, from U.S. owned companies".
Sorry I went to those sites, and you can't convince anyone that you are living without participating in the free market.
Those sites have products they promote, including BMW and the Honda Civic, but none of them have anything that would make your statement anywhere near true.
In example on one, under TOOLS: WORKLIGHTS, they had one light called the wobbly light, that was it for the entire category.
"I only purchase U.S. products, made in the U.S., with U.S. parts, by U.S. workers, from U.S. owned companies".
"I agree with you ...it is a good stop-gap for upwardly mobile young workers, in-between jobs workers, people just learning to work (high school, ex-welfare recipients) and people who just want to make some money for the family bills, but don't want full-time comittments."
This is true to some extent, however, I live at Wal-Mart ground zero, in Rogers, AR. You can't tell when you leave Rogers and enter Bentonville, where WM corporate headquarters are located. My wife and 16-yo son both work at the local Supercenter.
Virtually EVERYBODY here knows some success story of someone rising out of the bottom ranks and going on to evtreme success with WM. I'm not talking about two or three examples, but literally HUNDREDS!
A Supercenter is not all WM has. There are GREAT jobs available at the General Office, or the warehouses, with great pay. Look, my 41-yo daughter has a $250,000 home and another 250k in her 401k. The warehouse is the only job she's ever had. This with a HS education-NO college!
The store manager at the aforementioned Jane, MO store is a WOMAN who started as a cashier!
I could go on and on, but let me conclude with this: Wal-Mart bashers, I'll debate you anytime! You don't know what you're talking about!
Respectfully (to some degree) yours,
Frank
It reminds me of Marie Antoinette when she heard the people of France, and specifically Paris, were starving because there was no bread. She was such an airhead and thought since no bread was available, they could just eat the little pastry cakes and, as we all know, the infamous "let them eat cake" which was really "let them eat the little cakes."
These rich phonies are just like them - THEY wouldn't be caught DEAD in Wal-Mart so they expect the poor to shop where they do - and poor people can't shop on-line - they don't all have PCs or even credit cards or credit for that matter. Ugh! I don't like the way Wal-Marts look - ugly inside AND out - the gray and blue just do me in, especially here in gloomy Cleveland, and I don't like big box stores, but they have their place and purpose. I say Viva Wal-Mart.
"Michigan has 20 Wally grocery stores-in the state."
Wal-Mart has 28,833 employees in Michigan.
http://www.walmartfacts.com/StateByState/?id=22
I'm not entirely sure what your point is. Why shouldn't Wal-Mart close under-performing stores?
That is smart business sense. Why would a business throw money away keeping a non producing store open?
You also notice all these stores are in MI where the democrats have raised taxes so much many businesses are moving out.
There's a bar/eatery around the corner from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit called the 'Emergency Room'. 0800 hrs. it's the watering hole-greezy burger breakfast sort of place before going home. Filled with everybody you just worked alongside with for the past 12 hrs. Last nite was pretty light-only four GSW's.
Which beats the hell outta somebody being dumber than they pretend.
LOL
I only purchase U.S. products, made in the U.S., with U.S. parts, by U.S. workers, from U.S. owned companies.
You do not buy much do you? Where are you able to find such things.
I am not a Granholm(Canadian citizen) fan. MI is the only state in the union that has an additional Small Business tax.
Vote DeVoss.
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