Wal-Mart was found guilty in court of paying illegal immigrants $5.00 per hour. They have to pay a fine of more than $20 million for doing thins not in one location but many locations. Perhaps you are ignorant of the recent lawsuit where Wal-Mart was found guilty in COURT! See http://immigration.about.com/b/a/162521.htm , http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/24/95919.shtml <- where police raided 60 stores and the headquarters of Wal-Mart and arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants working for Wal-Mart at less than $5.00 per house. That is not the only information on Wal-Mart and illegal aliens. There are hundreds of articles such as http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/23/news/companies/walmart_worker_arrests/ where hundreds of illegals were arrested and working for Wal-Mart. And in http://www.bongonews.com/layout4.php?event=717 Wal-Mart defends the use of Illegal aliens as Slave Labor. What can you quote? The fiscal report in the stock brochure from Wal-Mart?
As for Wal-Mart paying on average $9.40 per hour you are WRONG, where are your facts? Made up in your head?. Wal-Mart Workers in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska make less than $6.00 per hour -- this is based on a Study done by the University of Michigan. As for what Wal-Mart says -- I have no faith in the figures you give, I do have faith in research from the University of Michigan.
If Wal-Mart paid their employees as much money as you assert than why does Wal-Mart encourage their employees all over the USA to seek state medical assistance? Numerous states around he USA are looking into bills that would address this issue.
If they paid their employees so much they would not have to do so. Your figures are made up just like your logic.
Your logic is based on false facts -- Wal-Mart does not pay it's workers on average $9.40 across the USA. Delete management and the heads of the corporation from Arkansas and the pay scale and you get less than a living wage so that a few billionaires can grow ever richer.
As for embarrassing myself you make up false pay wages -- anyone can lie like you -- but to use real figures from the University of Michigan takes ability!
Wal-Mart's Motto: Bring it home to the USA -- yup import Slave wage made material from China so that China can build up it's military -- just like Japan used the USA to build up it's war power previous to World War Two and we can destroy the USA American worker.
You are just a sheepel for Wal-Mart – I bet you go to around going Bahhh bahhh baahhh Wal-Mart good, slave labor good, death of America good.
Wal-Mart's slogan should be: 'We lower lower the standard of living of our workers so our billionares an exploit the market."