My favorite picture after all these years. I remember it from an anti-Walmart site like in the late 1990's.
Posted on 10/22/2012 3:47:27 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
Can we stop pretending that Barack Obama’s candidacy is some grass-roots uprising?
Obama’s campaign has outspent Romney’s campaign. The Democratic National Committee has outspent the Republican National Committee. While Romney’s SuperPAC (Restore our Future), has outspent Obama’s SuperPAC (Priorities USA), that $40 million Romney SuperPAC edge doesn’t come close to making up for the Obama campaign’s $180 million edge.
There is legally undisclosed spending going on here, and there’s reason to believe Romney benefits from more of it than Obama, but that’s not conclusive, and we don’t know how big Romney’s edge is in that category.
Obama argues that his fundraising success comes from small donors, but that’s not really true. One out of every five Obama dollars comes from the campaign’s biggest bundlers, the Center for Pubic Integrity reports. Those bundlers include the likes of Pfizer lobbying chief Sally Susman and financier Michael Kempner of the MWW group.
A full 85 percent of Obama’s SuperPAC money comes from his 20 largest donors (compared to 70 percent of the money raised by Romney’s SuperPAC), according to Russ Choma at the Center for Responsive Politics.
My favorite detail, though, is this Washington Times report by data hound Luke Rosiak: Wal-Mart Chairman Sam Walton has apparently given big to Obama’s SuperPAC.
This is at first surprising for a couple of reasons. First, the Waltons tend to be Republican. Second, the conventional wisdom is that megacorps like Wal-Mart are a Republican thing.
But Sam Walton gave the maximum $30,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, and $40,000 to the OVF this election.
Policy-wise, there’s plenty of reason for Sam Walton to like Barack Obama: 1.Wal-Mart endorsed the employer mandate in ObamaCare, which gives Wal-Mart an advantage by crushing smaller competitors. 2.Wal-Mart has profited from Dodd-Frank, which fixes the price Wal-Mart has cards.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Lots of poor people is good for business,so....
I don’t shop there, so that’s good. Pallets of stuff from China I don’t need.
All of them? None give to the GOP candidates? That’s hard to believe. Of those you list the only one I shop at is Home Depot and I can drop them if need be. Amazon I boycott because I like independent bookstores. Best Buy is a trashy place, merchandise strewn everywhere, bad karma, matrix feel to it. Target is for rich chicks saving daddy money, not my type. Will have to research on Google’s campaign contributions. I’ve stopped using Yahoo because of their CEO obama bundler.
So true, I was accused of being part of Occupy Wallstreet when I suggested Walmart does more harm than good, they often undercut local businesses with lower prices, then when they die, Walmart raises prices, it’s a fact, they also fuel China’s imported crap!
You described Best Buy to a tee! I had a bad experience when I bought a TV for a steal, haven’t been back, the sales people all huddled as if to make me feel bad, left out because all I wanted was the TV, I didn’t want their accessories nor the protection plan, they even tried to talk me out of buying it, jerks!
“Certain companies like Walmart get endlessly hammared with bogus lawsuits from the libbers.
McDondalds is another one.”
That’s because McDo’s is one of the very few burger places that does not allow EBT cards to function.
Hilariously, I also overheard a bunch of homeless afros in DT L.A. yell at each other, cursing MCD’s for not allowing their EBT’s to work.
I’ve never shopped at Walmart.
Don’t plan on taking it up.
If they want to give their stuff away, they can give it to someone else.
This business was another mutually beneficial concern with William Jefferson Clinton.
When I learned that, it was the end of any chance I’d ever do business with it.
Tyson Chicken is another concern that will never see a dime of my money.
Obvious troll, I will make sure all your posts and articles are gone.
Yes, as you say Sam Walton is dead. Samuel Moore “Sam” Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam’s Club.His son John assumed the mantle of President of WalMart and Sams Club in 1992.
John Walton died on June 27th, 2005 in an ultralight experimental aircraft accident*. He certainly would not have donated any money to the Obama campaign, he was a Vietnam Vet and a recipient of the Silver Star through serving with the Green Berets in Vietnam.
It is the evil heirs of the Waltons who are donating to an unamerican liberal fascist who is bent on destroying America, redistributing its wealth, redefining history ( minorities built Americas wealth), and resigning the policy we have of world wide peace, thereby bringing war to the entire world.
The great entrepreneur Sam Walton Jr. would have nothing to do with Obama if he were alive today, and would be one of Obama’s most outspoken critics.The thread article has a spin which is not based on true fact, and is nothing more than campaign spin fodder to show that Obama is taking the corporate dollar from Walmart which has a quid pro quo arrangement with the Obama administration, much as GE and MacDonalds do, in order to obtain waivers from Obamacare’s
punishingly arcane and retrograde requirements.
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*BENTONVILLE, Ark. - John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a member of the company’s board, died Monday in a plane crash in Wyoming.
Walton, 58, of Jackson, Wyo., was piloting an ultralight that crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, the company said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the cause of the afternoon crash was not known, officials said.
The plane was an experimental ultralight aircraft with a small, gasoline-powered engine and wings wrapped in fabric similar to heavy-duty sail cloth, officials said.
In March, Forbes Magazine listed John Walton as No. 11 on its list of the world’s richest people with a net worth of $18.2 billion. He was tied with his brother Jim, one spot behind his bother Rob, and just ahead of his sister Alice and his mother Helen.
Walton joined the board of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1992, but did not work for the company.
“We’re sad that John Walton, who was well-known and much-loved in this valley, died doing something that he loved to do, which was fly aircraft,” said Joan Anzelmo, a spokeswoman for Grand Teton National Park.
“I saw parts of it,” she said of the plane. “I didn’t realize what I was seeing at first. It was so lightweight it looked like a giant model airplane.”
Anzelmo said officials notified the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board.
“Because this is a homemade, non-registered, experimental aircraft, at least today they told us there was not going to be an investigation,” she said. Grand Teton rangers will conduct their own probe, as is done with any major accident in the park, she said.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams said the company notified its employees worldwide of Walton’s death.
Walton was an Army veteran who served with the Green Berets as a medic during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Silver Star for saving the lives of several members of his unit while under enemy fire, according to the company. He attended the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, and served as a board member of the Walton Family Foundation.
The company said Walton pursued a variety of business interests including working as a crop duster in the 1970s and building boats in the 1980s. More recently, he had formed a holding company, True North, to oversee various business interests.
Walton is survived by his wife, Christy, and son, Luke; his mother, Helen; two brothers, Rob and Jim; and a sister, Alice.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
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I have a lot of stock with them. I haven’t looked at the price recently but will today just to see where they are. I bought the stock in 1995 through 1998. I normally look at the price every year around tax time. I am going to look earlier this round.
Heh.
Don’t forget Apple and Microsoft. Big time DemocRAT supporters.
And Costco.
They sure are quiet now. Even Rush was a big supporter, maybe this is why he is right 99% of the time?
Sam R. Walton is the yuppy, liberal son of Robson Walson.
Like Ronald Reagan’s son and many other sons and grandsons of conservative icons, he was brainwashed in college and is now a liberal. The children of Sam Walton, like their father, have always been stanch CONSERVATIVES and members of the Repubican Party. Democrats hate Walmart because the store refuses to be unionized. Read below.....
The Walton family, which owns Walmart, has already donated $624,100 to Republican candidates and Super PACs this cycle, according to disclosure data analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics. Ninety percent of those donations went to support GOP presidential candidates.
Jim Walton, the son of Walmart founder Sam Walton and the eighth richest man in America according to Forbes, initially put his money behind Jon Huntsman. The billionaire gave $2,500 to Huntsman’s campaign and $100,000 to Our Destiny PAC, which supported Huntsman. But after Huntsman’s campaign floundered, Walton switched his support to Romney, dumping $200,000 into the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future and another $2,500 into the Romney campaign.
Walton’s sister-in-law Christy split her campaign contributions among two GOP contenders, both of which were among the first four candidates to drop out of the race. In November she showed some billionaire love for Jon Huntsman, giving $50,000 to the Super Pac supporting him and $2,500 to his campaign.
Days after then-candidate Herman Cain was accused of sexual harassment, Walton donated the legal maximum of $2,500 to his campaign.
Alice Walton, the daughter of Sam Walton, has kept all of her donations fixed on Romney, giving the maximum $2,500 to his campaign and an additional $200,000 to the Super PAC supporting him.
None of the Waltons have donated to Democrats, Federal Election Commission reports show.
Now you’ve done it.
Your post will probably result in 5 Walmart basher Freeper suicides. The truth will be unacceptable to them
That really sucks. I knew Costco was a lefty org, but I really like their stuff and their store.
I do have a Sam’s membership, so I’ll be getting stuff there more often...
so I guess they thought they had to bribe the ‘rats to keep them off their backs.
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