Good article
What about 'Big Oil'?
Reece is nuts. Try Halliburton, for example. And many other corporations in U.S. history have been hated for being successful. Standard Oil and the old, big railroad companies stand out in U.S. history as having been hated for being successful.
This guy must only go to that one Wal=Mart in the far off land of Oz.
Walmart isn't hated because it is successful. Walmart is hated because it destroys American jobs, American companies, American communities and American wages for it's own good. WalMart is hated because it does what Republicans and Democrats in Washington are currently doing - putting money ahead of Americans and America. This story is just another attempt to whitewash the issue by painting a strawman.
This should be automatically inserted in front of every post at FR.
In my neck of the woods, they have a few defective employees. I always say hello to the employees there to greet customers at the door, and more than half the time they don't acknowledge. They will look right at you and say nothing. Maybe they need to be rotated a little more frequently, eh?
And by the way, if they DON'T close up every store in Maryland, they're not practicing capitalism, they're an accessory after the fact to fascism.
"You can't provide low-cost health care or low-cost medical insurance for a system run by millionaire doctors and six-figure hospital administrators, and that has 1,200 percent profit margins for drugs and medical devices. The health-industry attitude is, we'll profiteer like crazy, and you people find a way to pay us."
Apparently, Mr. Reese hates the medical profession for the same reasons other folks hate Wal-Mart. Author, heal thyself.
That may have been the case in the past.
"Wal-Mart is the only corporation in the world that I know of or have ever heard of that is hated because it is successful."
Nah - this phenomenon is more common than you think. When General Motors was on top of the heap they were nothing but a target to everybody from the crackpots to the mainstream media.
The United States itself isn't hated for any logical reason; it's hated all over the globe because it's big and successful in a petty and faltering world. Sort of like Cain rising up and killing Abel because Abel was right and Cain couldn't stand it.
See it only took 6 replies to find one here on FR.
They are all over the place.
There are a zillion corporations that are paying their help comparable to Walmart. I doubt Burger King and McDonald's hamburger flippers are earning double digit hourly wages.
And yet these same leftist snobs can't get it through their thick skulls that the more demands the government makes on a company, large or small, the less there is to pay employees. For instance, I am surprised at the number of people (usually bleeding heart types) who don't know that the companies we work for have to match our social security and medicare payments out of their gross income.
Maybe it's a drop in the ocean for AT&T but for the small and medium sized small business it's a big chunk. Though I wish all companies would abide by the illegal immigrant hiring laws, I can understand why they try to sneak by hiring them. The government pressures are getting greater and greater on both businesses and individuals. Sometimes one almost feels forced to break an unfair law, not because they want to in a screw you attitude, but because they just won't make be able to make it otherwise.
"The move to China is not coming from Wal-Mart, but from greedy manufacturing corporations that love cheap and controlled labor."
That, my friend, is what some people call a lie.
Wal-Mart does pressure corporations to send manufacturing offshore to lower-cost manufacturers by demanding from its suppliers, year after year, incrementally lower prices. Wal-Mart's customers don't demand that. Wal-Mart demands that. They demand it so they can dominate the market, drive competitors out of business, and line the already bulging pockets of the Walton clan.
The inevitable effect of Wal-Mart's demands on suppliers is to send American manufacturing jobs to China. Here is but one example:
"Take the L.R. Nelson lawn sprinklers, which used to be made in Peoria, Ill., before Wal-Mart pressured Nelson to make them in China instead. Before the move, one laid-off Peoria worker told the reporter, Chinese managers were "walking around the plant and videotaping us working. That was horrible, horrendous. Right in our faces. They are taking our jobs." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041202186_4.html)
...all so Wal-Mart can offer a lawn sprinkler at a lower cost. Maybe I missed where consumers were picketing stores demanding cheaper lawn sprinklers, but I doubt it.
I'm a capitalist. I love to make a fair profit from my customers. But there are limits. I don't demand higher profits where it leads to injury or death. I don't demand higher profits where it leads to sweat shops and child labor. And I don't demand higher profits where it leads to the evisceration of the American manufacturing base, ultimately weakening this country.
The problem is not doctors, it's lawyers.
I've never found a dirty store, a rude employee or a defective product in a Wal-Mart store.
I'm no Wal-mart basher, but this person is living in fantasy-land.
This article is pure BS. It tries to state that Wal-Mart is an innocent victim who is sold Chinese goods against their will.
Wal-Mart seeks out Chinese goods. Period.
Of course not that, but would a "Made In America Boutique" be below them? The shoppers who say they would pay twice to get American would have an opportunity to vote with their wallets.
It's more like having to close the doors on American plants, Charlie.
We saw that outfit in the midwest that made the cabinets for big TV sets, you know, with the large glass front? Well, with cheap chineeeeeze labor and less than desireable quality, they can produce the entire cabinet for less than the midwest company's material cost for just the glass screen alone.
'Course, you get screens of non-uniform thickness and clarity, but what's a little distortion compared to cheap price?
What do these critics want Wal-Mart to do? Fail? Start selling $300 shirts like Saks Fifth Avenue?