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Wal-Mart Good for America
wsj.com ^
| April 5, 2005 5:22 p.m.
| Associated Press
Posted on 04/05/2005 3:58:49 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo
ROGERS, Ark. -- Wal-Mart is "good for America" and the barrage of criticism against the company is an effort to protect the status quo in retailing, President and CEO Lee Scott said Tuesday in a sharp attack on organized labor and retail rivals.
Addressing about 50 journalists gathered at the company's media conference -- it first ever media event Mr. Scott defended its wages and health care plans, criticized by labor groups as inadequate, and said that the company is able to save customers big money as it drives costs out of its system.
"Innovation and competition tends to change the status quo," said Mr. Scott, speaking at a hotel in Rogers, a few miles from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Bentonville headquarters.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chairmanmao; cheapcrap; chinamart; walmart; walmartsucks
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To: ATCNavyRetiree
Dude, I don't know what you're smelling, but if it's McD's, it ain't meat.
141
posted on
04/05/2005 7:50:28 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
To: Iscool
Yah, who's freedom??? China's???
Our's!!!!!!
142
posted on
04/05/2005 7:56:31 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: Walkin Man
Show me the "freedom" in communist China, will ya?
You'd take away our freedom in order to punish China for its lack of freedom. That strikes me as absurdly weird.
143
posted on
04/05/2005 7:59:37 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: Walkin Man
I HAVE to buy gas, no matter how expensive it gets!
OK, you're a slave then!
144
posted on
04/05/2005 8:01:32 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: ATCNavyRetiree
" All I need to know is"
Nothing, you know nothing and you don't have the IQ points to figure anything out either. "Drives costs out of its system" means minium wages and minium benefits for all invovled. Here in thre USA that means a crappy job, in asia it means slave labor.
145
posted on
04/05/2005 8:04:38 PM PDT
by
jpsb
To: The Great Yazoo
You take away the American middle-class and the American in the name of freedom and give our money to a saber rattling communist giant that is intent on crushing a free nation like Taiwan!
Your type of 'freedom' leads to slavery and degradation of everything that made America great, I'll pass.
To: A. Pole
Hayek, Friedman, von Mises represent a certain ideology...
Yes. It's called conservatism. And you, A. Pole, sound like no conservative to me.
147
posted on
04/05/2005 8:05:38 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: Walkin Man
Should be: You take away the American middle-class and the American dream...
To: superiorslots
"But many on this site see no problem with helping fund the chinese communist through walmart."
That;s because they are complete total fools that could not think there way out of a wet paper bag.
149
posted on
04/05/2005 8:07:14 PM PDT
by
jpsb
To: SamAdams76
"The more business Wal-Mart does in China, the faster the Chinese will abandon their communism."
Most idiotic, self serving quote ever at Free Republic. it not easy to be the king of fools in a sea of fools. Congraduations SamAdams76, you're the new champ.
150
posted on
04/05/2005 8:10:49 PM PDT
by
jpsb
To: The Great Yazoo
Well yeah, the whole friggen world is also! Whats your point?
Is there some other form of available energy out there other than fossil fuels which I can use everyday??
To: The Great Yazoo
"Hayek, Friedman, von Mises represent a certain ideology..."
Yes. It's called conservatism. And you, A. Pole, sound like no conservative to me. It is CALLED falsely "conservatism" by some. But as Pope Leo XIII's in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum demonstrated, both laissez-faire (free market) capitalism and state socialism are destructive and anti-conservative errors. Case closed.
152
posted on
04/05/2005 8:20:09 PM PDT
by
A. Pole
(Sun Tzu: ""Foreknowledge [...]cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people.")
To: Walkin Man
It is those who would restrict Wal-Mart's rights to purchase goods on the most advantageous terms and those who would restrict Wal-Mart's customers' rights to purchase goods on the most advantageous terms who pose the threat to American freedom. Not me.
153
posted on
04/05/2005 8:20:23 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: A. Pole
Pope Leo XIII's in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum demonstrated, both laissez-faire (free market) capitalism and state socialism are destructive and anti-conservative errors.
Sorry. Pope Leo XIII was wrong. Case closed!
154
posted on
04/05/2005 8:24:17 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: Walkin Man
Let's see. Hydropower, nuclear power, methanol, ethanol. For starters.
155
posted on
04/05/2005 8:27:21 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: The Great Yazoo
Sorry. Pope Leo XIII was wrong. If you think so, you must have read his encyclical? What is wrong in this text?
156
posted on
04/05/2005 8:30:05 PM PDT
by
A. Pole
(Sun Tzu: ""Foreknowledge [...]cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people.")
To: The Great Yazoo
Sorry all the gas stations in my area only sell gas and diesel strangely enough...
To: The Great Yazoo
I DON'T SHOP there, but I still love them because they piss off all the right people. Give 'em 'ell Wally World!
158
posted on
04/05/2005 8:37:05 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
To: A. Pole
No. I assumed you accurately stated his position. If you accurately stated his position, Pope Leo XIII was wrong. If you misstated his position, that's your problem, not mine.
In the province of economics, Adam Smith trumps Pope Leo XIII. With all due respect to (what I would presume to be your) Catholicism, as an evangelical Christian, Pope Leo XIII carries no weight with me spiritually either.
159
posted on
04/05/2005 8:43:09 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: Walkin Man
I'm sorry. You asked "Is there some other form of available energy out there other than fossil fuels which I can use everyday??" I answered your question.
160
posted on
04/05/2005 8:45:13 PM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
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