hmmmm...let’s see... A dynamic company, a shining example of American entrepreneurship and ingenuity, brings hundreds of entry-level and growth-potential jobs to a community while raising its tax base, provides multiple goods and services at affordable prices, involves itself in programs and local charities that affect the common good and heads the list for many national charities and health care issues and often is, at least, a second responder in disaster (those greedy bums!). NOW, an iconic band, the Eagles, wants to team up with this simply HORRID, EEEEEVIL, corporation.
Well! I am incensed, I tell you! Alert the pop media and the idiots on the leftie blogs! THIS canNOT stand! Don’t they know that the unwashed masses must buy from organic farm stands and the indigenous native americans?!
I wish someone would tell these left wing morons, idiots and loud mouthed A#$H)*&$s to just SHUT UP.
A common misconception. For the most part WalMart transfers jobs, it doesn't create them.
Let's assume a region of the country has 10,000 jobs in retail pre-entry by WalMart, which moves in, opens a bunch of new stores and hires 5,000 people. Does anybody seriously think that five years later 15,000 people will be employed in retail sales in the region? Are the inhabitants really going to be buying that much more toilet paper and jeans just because WalMart is available? What happens is that for the most part retail sales employment remains steady, with the number employed at WalMart increasing and those employed elsewhere decreasing.
AAMOF, since WalMart is renowned for selling more per full-time employee equivalent than its competitors (a major reason for its profitability), I would suspect that if other factors are isolated WalMart reduces retail sales employment in a region.
This isn't an attack on WalMart, simply a recognition that 500 new jobs "created" at the new WalMart doesn't mean 500 new jobs total for the community, not once things shake out.
Of course the 500 "new" WalMart jobs are created in one swell foop and are thus newsworthy, while the equivalent loss of jobs elsewhere are in ones and twos, mostly in the form of competitors not hiring new employees to replace those who quit. It is thus the exact opposite of the traditional employment "news" story, where factory closings with their hundreds of employees laid off gets big news play whereas increasing employment elsewhere does't, as it is spread out over hundreds of other businesses which hire only a few at a time.
There's many right-wing morons that essentially said the same idiotic things about Wal*Mart, impugning capitalism in the process. Some of them even post here but were far more vocal as of just two years ago...Wal*Mart threads are no longer in fashion, I guess.
The local Wal-Mart has donated $5000 so far this year to the American Legion post I belong to, And call us every time we have a fund-raiser asking how much we need. They have pledged $1000 worth of socks,tee-shirts, underwear and batteries for our Brave American Solders in Iraq for our Christmas presents for the troops fund-raiser
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