[Clintonfatigued]

Companies like Wal-Mart give free enterprise and capitalism a bad name. Socialists should thank them for the free propoganda.

[Conservative til I die]

Companies like Wal-Mart give free enterprise and capitalism a bad name.

Feel free not to work there or shop there. Otherwise, it's none of your business how they operate their business, as long as it's legal.

[NavVet]

Don't work at Walmart if you don't like the wages and benefits.

[Dog Gone]

So, Wal-Mart is a good argument for socialism, huh? I don't think you and I are going to agree much on political or economic matters.

[gogipper]

You know, thinking back, last time I went to Wal-Mart none of the employees had chains on their legs. They seemed to be free to roam at will. Those who have skills and initiative and don't want to work at Wal-mart will soon find a position that they do like, because they are not enchained there.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I just started working at Wal-Mart about two months ago. I find it a very interesting place to work.
Wal-Mart's pay is a little low at the beginning but if you work hard and do right you get raises and can move up.
I get a raise after my initial three months and I can see right now that if you want to move up into management or whatever there are opportunities to do so.
Tell one company where you start out with real high wages.
Wal-Mart is now the whipping boy whereas Sears was the whipping boy for some of the same things 35 years ago and of course Sears for the most part is history.
If Wal-Mart doesn't keep innovating and staying on the cutting edge it to will become a dinosaur and vanish.
Capitalism is by it's nature a wave of destruction as one economist put it many years ago.

[Fledermaus]

Geez, give me a friggin' break. If you don't like the wage, don't work there.

If someone is so frickin' stupid they can't make more than minimum wage it's not my fault. They'll make minimum at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sears, etc.

No, the bashing is ONLY because they are the big dog.

Move to China and shut the F up.

[ExpatGator]

Yeah, blah, blah, blah.

My wife works 32-38 hours a week at the local Wally. She is an hourly worker, and makes more than the going rate in our locale, and it was the same where we previously domiciled in another state. The VERY AFFORDABLE insurance is the best that we ever had, anywhere at any time, and we have had some pretty damn good insurance. In every case we have taken Wally-World insurance over that available where I have worked.

She has been treated fairly and enjoys what she does. She has been encouraged to advance at every turn and has been justly compensated for the advancement that she has accepted. She has not been sexually harassed, made to work off the clock, treated like crap, or any of the other whining points that you hear from the socialist agitators.

I guess what I am saying is that you are either misinformed from believing what you read on the news, a socialist agitator, or a whiny ex-employee who has nothing better to do than slam a good company. I sincerely hope that it is the first possibility, but who really cares?

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[Nowhere Man]

Companies like Wal-Mart give free enterprise and capitalism a bad name. Socialists should thank them for the free propoganda.

Amen and along with the free traders too, they might as well give ammo to the other side.

[torchthemummy]

Freedom is the right to be your own oppressor.

Many kids, due partly to the lax, politically-laced, self-esteem-happy educational establishment coupled with the lack of parental awareness and the debauchery of culture creates many snotty, egotistical entry workers with limited workplace attraction (not all, there are still alot of good kids). If you are ambitious you can ride the Walmart ladder all over the country.

And face the fact: many kids today are going to be low-wage earners for the rest of their life. I'm not so much giving up on them as I am saying that you will never have a workforce where everyone is in a comfortable financial circumstance and more often than not it is because of bad decisions, lack of work ethic and a constant outlook that says the world owes them. The educational system has created a cadre of new workers that have low tolerance for the education and/or work needed to achieve financial security.

[eleni121]

"Companies like Wal-Mart give free enterprise and capitalism a bad name"
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Not so! Companies like Walmart prove that capitalism has no equal in improving people's lives... Just think where Sam Walton was before he started up his little store.

It sounds like you and your union mobster comrades can't stand the thought of people willing to work there and the rest of us free to shop there. A little class envy perhaps?

[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.

[A CA Guy]

WalMart give pretty high wages for the industry they are employing people in.
If anything, the poverty pimps that have kept WalMarts out of ghettos would be the biggest criminals. Because of poverty politics, WalMart is out and $5 gallon milk stays in.

[TChris]

Companies like Wal-Mart give free enterprise and capitalism a bad name.

How do you figure? The lower prices at Wal-Mart benefit precisely the people this crap claims they hurt! With such low prices, every one of their customers effectively receives a raise. Their same money buys more than it would at other stores, and that's supposed to be a failure of capitalism? What would you consider success? ...higher prices?

[rasblue]

I'm a champion for free-enterprise but I have to admit that Wal-Mart seems to really want to help the socialist unions.