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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If you thought his repeated links to WakeUpWalmart.com indicated leftwing radicalism, then you ain't seen nothing yet
If you haven't already, then check out this other web site he sent us to
http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm
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There must be something in Oregon's air.
It is called liberalism.
I'm proud to say that my wife is one of them.
Name, please?[For those of you who don't get it, Steve Yzerman was God in Detroit]
Uh, I'm Steve.
Great. And your last name?
My friend says they both laughed it off. My understanding is that famous people actually enjoy not being recognized.
Those links look like union propaganda to me.
Does your computer pass your purity standard?
If you poke around the first one it seems be a business with a very odd definition of "American Made".
The Unions want their dues to help finance Democrat candidates.
"Name, please?
Uh, I'm Steve.
Great. And your last name?"
About 1986 in Houston, I was in the back of an overflowing sports bar, when two of my buddies insisted on dragging me up to the front to take a picture.
There were three of us in army uniforms, but a civilian kept trying to get into the picture with us.
I got exasperated with his pushiness and asked "who the hell are you?", he gave me a name and I turned back to the camera, well he kept trying to elbow in, and he had such a confused look on his face that I thought he may have a purpose.
When I asked him what he did he said "I'm a Quarterback", well he had the most peculiar look on his face, but I studied him closer and realized he had the glow of a high level athlete, thats when I let him in beside me and the picture was taken.
Turns out he was a famous Quarterback, and that the night at the sports bar was for fans to have photos taken with him.
I always took the uniform very seriously and I think my treating him as a glory hound trying to squeeze into our picture affected him a little.
Come'in back at you with my CAT scan Tech Experiences (i'm a tech), The Hulk when the the Undertaker beat him on the head with a chair-his real name is Terri Bonilla, Mike Utley-Detroit Lions player with C4 thru C6 fractures, Coleman Young-than Mayor of Detroit with ETOH encephalopathy, Steve Yzerman when I gave him 24 oz. of oral contrast to drink prior to his upper abdominal CT scan--he had one sip and said "that's all I'm drinking"-I told him you can leave now because I have 2 teenagers with grey matter leaking out of their heads due to GSW's and your tying up my table, theirs more....but I have to follow the wumping M is putting on ND.
40-14 with 13:30 in the fourth.
NEVER did I intend to dismiss all WM workers as underpaid and lucky to have low-end jobs - I was responding to a poster who suggested that all WM employees are un-insured stooges who are dead-ended; and also to a poster who said that the part-time work he picked up during a lay-off saved his life.
I was mentally excluding the full-timers and execs and managers, etc., as I typed that- Of course, there are many employees that are well-rewarded financially and have great benefits and excellent prospects...
I was more referencing the part-timers and entry-level positions in that post.
"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."
Sure enough, in MY large company, we have plenty who would like to complain about the have and have-nots....
your arguments are great, and to top them off, I originally asked of him, "what other government aid did they STOP receiving now that they work for Wal-Mart"?
I'll say okay to health bennies if they are off AFDC and disability...maybe someday they will take a position there or elsewhere where they can also purchase their own health inisurance.
Well, discounting the hype by talk radio prostitutes, it still might be important.
A few drunk friends and I were riding an elevator in a downtown Chicago hotel (we were there for a wedding reception). The door opens, and in walks Isiah Thomas (the Pistons were in town). One of my friends, after staring at him for a while . . . "Say, did you go to Wayne State?" The rest of us proceeded to do our best not to crack up. Isiah looks at him, then at us (realizing), and without skipping a beat replies, "No, but I spend a lot of time in Detroit." We teased my friend about it for years.
I do the best I can. Electronics are difficult to say the least. So- this is what I have,
AMD Atholon 2.8
CD R/RW
Floppy
1 gig RAM
60 gig Hard drive
6 2.0 USB ports
19" CRT
Wireless keyboard/mouse
Decent sound/video card
4 vacant bays for add-ons
10/100 LAN
Modem includes phone/wireless router
XP Pro
Office 2000
All for $100 from a local PC store that buys State of Michigan 'throwaways'.
And the guy probably made 50 bucks on the deal. And I got a 1 year warranty on parts and labor. Not Bad 'eh?
You're absolutely right. As soon as we accept the argument that WalMart is somehow responsible for providing health insurance for their workers, we're accepting socialism, which I will never do.
WalMart is a corporation in business to make a profit, not a welfare office for low-skilled workers. If people don't like the benefits, they are free to work elsewhere.
If WalMart workers qualify for government benefits, that's between them and the government, and if I as a taxpayer don't like what the government provides them, I have recourse in the voting booth.
To blame WalMart because some of their employees get Medicaid, food stamps, etc. is to accept one of the premises of socialism, that it's the employer's job to provide whatever employees demand. Socialism fails everywhere it's tried, including corporate America. Just ask the GM and Ford workers whose outrageous pay and benefits packages priced them out of their jobs.
The computer guys will have to fill us in on this one.
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