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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Don't hold your breath waiting for a reply.
You called her post BS. You started the attack.
And as far as DU is concerned, it is YOU and you alone, who belongs over there.
Great catch!
You obviously did not read the link or comment on angiography.
Your first link in post 173 is from http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm Here is a little from their mission page.
"The completely negative and overbearing influence of the US is presently being felt throughout the world in ways that are most damaging to all life in all nations. The economic, social, environmental and physical well-being of all people has been and is being irreparably harmed by the ideas and methods of bringing them to fruition.
Fox News is a great example of such a blend of fact and fiction, and so is most mainstream media. If this were not so, then there would be front page headlines about the intense level of fraud that took place at the poll and is still taking place at the highest levels of the Bush administration. The American public, more than any other, seems blind to a multitude of facts that other nations have considerably less trouble seeing. A great deal of this ignorance of fact is directly attributable to the right-wing owned and operated US media. The deception of most of the US has been accomplished with great ease.
How is it that the World Trade Center could be destroyed by jets crashing into it? This is the only instance of such a thing happening either before or after 9/11. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt steel. A scientist from the testing agency that rates steel for fire resistance thought so, and he was fired for making this known to the public. If one watches videos of the WTC falling, it is plain that by the way it fell into itself and the way it seemed to explode into tiny fragments, that this was a demolition job. The smoke coming out of it wasn't even the right type of smoke for the supposed cause of the smoke. A good report on the 9/11 Commission Report tells a lot about this. But even that doesn't go far enough. One of its many failings is to not have included the bulk of NY Fire Department and emergency worker testimony that required a lawsuit by the New York Times to make public. Those oral histories point out that eye witnesses feel that this was an intentional demolition job. Many people have some pretty good ideas about what happened. For starters, there were far too many coincidences for the attack to be called an accident. In the special PBS documentary, "America Rebuilds," the owner of the WTC complex states that building '7' was "pulled," which is the industry's own language for "demolished."
"I remember getting a call from the Fire Department Commander, telling me that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire. I said, 'You know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it [demolish it].' They made that decision to pull. Then we watched the building collapse." — Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC complex. [MP3 audio of Silverstein (228 Kb)].
Did any of the mainstream media alert the public to these facts in a meaningful way?? Of course not. The complete front page of the San Francisco Chronicle a couple days ago was about the murder trial of a pregnant woman. We agree that this is a dreadful crime, but what about the thousands of innocent people who are being killed on the streets of Iraq? And there are purposefully no statistics kept on them, at least not officially. Such outrage for one person is presented on page after page, but for thousands we feel no compassion? We agree that there are terrorists in Iraq. But how is this defined? And who do you call when the police are the problem?"
Every body should look at that link, it confirms what his promotion of WakeUpWalmart.com had revealed.
This guy is a DU troll.
From living in about four areas before Walmart built, the biggest reason for the outcry of local businesses is that they did not want any competition. They abhored the idea of working harder instead of being the only business on the block that could provide a particular product to the community.
The businesses that do thrive in the presence of the new big block stores are the ones who are able to provide knowledge and service to go along with their products.
Hey ex, why don't you just start your own retail chain. You could call it Whacky Mart, and run it any way you want to. Let Wal-Mart be Wal-Mart. (By the way, glad your an ex.)
There must be something in Oregon's air.
He's posted nothing but doom&gloom housing "bubble" threads for almost four solid years. In that time, real estate has gone up and up and up and up. Now, in some parts of this country, real estate has just leveled off and come back to a more normal state.
I'm not interested in discussing the field of medicine, which bears little resemblance to the field of big-box retail.
Target's clothing is crap.
I've bought several items of clothing at Target "thinking" that I was paying for better quality.
Wal-mart's clothes don't fall apart like Target's.
'I'm not interested in discussing the field of medicine'
= You know nothing of business.
Rather hypocritical of you.
bttt
What an *ss. I guess someone forces people to shop at Wal-Mart, you moron.
Who brags about being an EX Texan anyway?
This guy's had the stank on 'im from day one.
If you only knew. Let's just say that I'm good for roughly $30 million of sales a year, and I have more doctors and surgeons on my speed-dial than "regular" people. One of them is seated maybe 25 feet away and watching the Notre Dame game. Next.
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