http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/full_list/
Posted on 04/16/2010 9:36:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
2010 Fortune 500: Wal-Mart back on top.
The retail giant knocks Exxon Mobil out of the top slot to rule the Fortune 500 again.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/full_list/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/performers/companies/profits/
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The unions, especially the UFCW are go nuts when they hear about how well Wal Mart is doing.
California and Texas are tied at 57 for the number of Fortune 500 headquarters locations.
I once knew a UFCW Local Officer who vowed that he wouldn’t be caught dead in a Wal Mart. One day I ran into him in one and he said he wasn’t dead yet.
“If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a Wal-Mart, you never know how many UCFW bodies you’ll step over.”
GM dropped from #6 last year to #15 this year, the first time in the history of the Fortune 500 that GM didn’t make the top 10. I can’t wait to see how far Government Motors falls by next year.
To rub it in further, Ford is still in the top 10, and actually made a profit of $2.717 Billion, while GM had a “N/A” for profits. :)
Obama may be “amused” at the Tea Parties, but the 55% of real Americans who sympathize with the Tea Party are not amused at the extension of fascism into our government/economy as the socialists nationalized GM.
Do you think that is why I see so many Texas Cars in San Diego.
Besides the largest concentration of Military in the world
Largest numbers of Defense Contractors’
Top 3 in Medical and bio Technology
top area for Telecommunications.
Headquarters of Qualcomm and SONO Electronics.
The list goes on.
These jobs are growing, receiving tens of millions of contracts each month.
San Diego is not like the majority of the other parts of the state.
We are the size of the state of Connecticut with over 3.4 million population.
Largest City in the U.S. with a Republican Mayor
3 of our 5 Congressmen are Conservative Republicans.
Orange Co. & LA County are small towns connected by freeways
Frisco is a small area with 700,00 population.
Their economy does not have as much to draw from as San Diego with a diverse economy, including from earlier list, Tourism and conventions.
The other vast areas of Calif. are small towns and a lot of space.
Bottom line, San Diego is not the rest of California.
Demographically the difference between San Diego vs. Los Angeles is notable. San Diego's SMSA is 5.2% Black and 27.1% Hispanic whereas those numbers are 7.5% and 40.7% respectively for the Los Angeles SMSA.
Given San Diego's closer proximity to Mexico, what factors account for the significantly smaller Hispanic percentage in San Diego compared to Los Angeles?
San Diego is more conservative.
WE have a huge Military population,largest in the world.
A huge professional population.
LA caters more to the Mexicans and they can have more of their crap hole neighborhoods than they can here.
No Shatner posts without the obligatory, ‘Shatner of the Mount.’ (It sounds dirty; it’s not.)
I NEVER tire of this:
http://www.bordom.net/view/25786/_Shatner_Of_The_Mount_by_Fall_On_Your_Sword
Teeny Toes! ROFLMAO!
Thanks for posting this, SJ! I was going to do it as I just got it in an e-mail.
I sure hope these companies know they will be in 0bama’s gunsights before the month is through...
B@stard.
youtube.com.
A young Ricardo Montelban was always the best I hoped to do, too.
*BWA-Ha-Ha* :)
I can still remember how EXCITED I was when they made the FIRST Star Trek movie. I thought I had died and gone to Heaven, LOL!
Then I fell in love with Second Generation. And I remember how excited I was when they made THAT into a movie.
Well, you get the picture. I’m a total Trekkie, thanks in part to my Dad and the fact that I grew up with only three TV channels to choose from. ;)
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