Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/17/2010 5:51:36 AM PDT by Errant
I won't vouch for all the numbers below but the general idea has a lot to be said for it -- JR
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy. This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, it is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:
a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke. c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?
Mark of book (not to be confused with Book of Mark)
Wal-Marts family fortune has been reported to equal the entire wealth of the poorest 100 million US citizens. What they do with their money is also in question:
a piece on Turkeys Islamist institutions in the US by Dr. Paul WIlliams:
Is Walmart Wealth Funding Radical Islamic Schools in the USA?
Family Secuirty Matters.org ^ | 8/24/10 | Dr. Paul Williams
Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:19:22 PM by dselig
The Walton Family Foundation is shelling out millions (pdf) to fund charter schools with alleged ties to militant Islam throughout the country.
At the schools, which have been “inspired” by Imam Fethullah Gulen, students are immersed in Turkish customs, rituals, and language. They take part in so-called “Turkish Olympics” and are encouraged to make annual pilgrimages to Istanbul and Ankara. The schools allegedly foster the dream of the restoration of the Ottoman Empire and dismiss all accounts of the Armenian Christian holocaust as fanciful myths.
According to Stephen Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, the students at the Gulen schools are also steeped in the tenets of militant Islam so they may be of serve a role in the re-establishment of the Ottoman Empire and the extension of shariah (Islamic law) throughout Europe and the United States.
Many of the teachers at these schools are Turkish émigrés with questionable credentials. Some possess H-1B non immigrant visas which should only be granted to individuals who possess “highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor.” The female faculty members appear in their classrooms wearing hijabs and traditional Islamic attire.
Rachel Sharon-Krespin writes: “His (Gulen’s) followers target youth in the eighth through twelfth grades, mentor and indoctrinate them in the isikevi, educate them in the Fethullah schools, and prepare them for future careers in legal, political, and educational professions in order to create the ruling classes of the future Islamist, Turkish state.”
Even more telling is a comment from Nurettin Veren, Gulen’s right hand man for 35 years, who says: “These schools are like shop windows. Recruitment and Islamization are carried out through night classes.
The Walton Family derived its vast fortune - - estimated at $89.5 - - from Sam and Bud Walton, the founders of Wal-Mart.
In California, the Walton Family Foundation has donated approximately $1 million to the Magnolia Science Academies that have been “inspired” by Gulen and his movement.
Similarly, the Waltons have provided sizeable checks to similar Gulen charter schools, including the Indiana Math and Science Foundation which received $230,000 in 2007.
During the same year, the Waltons gave the same amount to Noble Academy Charter School in Ohio, the Abramson Science and Technology Charter School in Louisiana, and the Noble Academy Charter School in Ohio - - all of which uphold Gulen’s teachings and ideology.
Another Gulen-inspired institution - - the Lisa Academy Charter School in Arkansas - - was granted $154,244.
The above figures are the tip of the iceberg since the allocations of the Walton Family Foundation to the Gulen schools in 2009 have not been disclosed.
The Gulen-inspired schools have also received more than $10 million from Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, and nearly $1 billion in federal and state funds.
Fethullah Gulen has been labeled “the most dangerous Islamist on planet earth.”
In 1998, he fled his native Turkey to escape arrest on government charges that he sought to overthrow the secular Ataturk government.
With his vast fortune - - estimated by the U.S. Justice Department to exceed $25 billion - - Gulen found refuge in Pennsylvania, where he established a mountain fortress on 45 acres of land in the rural community of Saylorsburg.
From Saylorsburg, Gulen worked to transform the secular government of Turkey into an Islamic Republic under the Justice and Democratic Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma, AKP)- – a party under the Gulen’s control.
Not entirely fair. Their biggest problem is technology change.
Love Walmart
Very poignant. Don’t forget the Dept of Education.
No, their biggest problem is their unionized workforce which is overpaid. They have with very few exceptions always lost money. This is a clear case of a business that should be privatized.
Mailmen are nothing more than overpaid messengers.
It is a clear case of what should NOT be privatized, there are already private mail carriers that do quite well, and a government established post office is one of the few enumerated powers of Congress.
Right .. USPS had it all together before the internet. [/sarc off
Buggy whip companies biggest problem was technology change as well .. but they didn't belong to a union of government workers that insisted they be propped up forever.
>>During the same year, the Waltons gave the same amount to Noble Academy Charter School in Ohio, the Abramson Science and Technology Charter School in Louisiana, and the Noble Academy Charter School in Ohio - - all of which uphold Gulen’s teachings and ideology.<<
The Waltons give to Charter Schools in general.
My nephew’s school in Ohio got money from The Waltons as well.
Nice slant in that article.
>Their biggest problem is technology change.
Which somehow does not impact FedEx?
Re the speaking English portion....not in these parts; not even close. If I can't find something, I have to go round up the old white guy who works out in the garden department.
This all sounds like the perfect business model. Problem is?
Walmart gets the job done.
Good or bad, if you even mention the word “union” in Wal-Mart, you will be unemployed very quickly. They do work their people hard but have good stock and bennies. And if a store is running properly there is usually a bonus for the employees yearly.
They are an unstoppable money making machine.
How about adding item #13:
More than 95% of the items stocked on Wal-Mart’s shelves are “Made in China”. Including jars of Garlic Powder from China, in the Spice Section.
Wasn’t too long ago that Sam’s stores proudly sold their products with big “Made in America” signs all over the store.
How is this different from any other major store? People say this like it's some sort of Wal-Mart conspiracy when it seems to be the case everywhere.
Obviously you work for the Postal Service or are a union troll. There is absolutely no justification for the inefficiencies and corruption of the PO.
But I see that unable to argue economics law or the Constitution, you ascribe me sinister motive for my position.
The Post Office is one of the FEW enumerated powers of Congress listed in the Constitution in Article I.
Which is (as I pointed out when saying that it was run to precisely NOBODY'S satisfaction) a poor excuse for its inefficacy. But there is a free market already in postal services, if you don't like the government provided one - you can always engage the service of a private entity.
Troll yourself.
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