Wal-Mart Good for America

wsj.com ^ | April 5, 2005 5:22 p.m. | Associated Press

[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.

[Xenalyte]

Dude, I don't know what you're smelling, but if it's McD's, it ain't meat.

[The Great Yazoo]

Yah, who's freedom??? China's???

Our's!!!!!!

[The Great Yazoo]

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.

[The Great Yazoo]

I HAVE to buy gas, no matter how expensive it gets!

OK, you're a slave then!

[jpsb]

" 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.

[Walkin Man]

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.

[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.

[Walkin Man]

Should be: You take away the American middle-class and the American dream...

[jpsb]

"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.

[jpsb]

"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.

[Walkin Man]

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??

[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.

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.

[The Great Yazoo]

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.

[The Great Yazoo]

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!

[The Great Yazoo]

Let's see. Hydropower, nuclear power, methanol, ethanol. For starters.

[A. Pole]

Sorry. Pope Leo XIII was wrong.

If you think so, you must have read his encyclical? What is wrong in this text?

[Walkin Man]

Sorry all the gas stations in my area only sell gas and diesel strangely enough...

[Clemenza]

I DON'T SHOP there, but I still love them because they piss off all the right people. Give 'em 'ell Wally World!

[The Great Yazoo]

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.

[The Great Yazoo]

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.