Wal Mart's Exploitive Practices Attacked By Website

Wake Up Wal-Mart ^

[Clintonfatigued]

Because of Wal-Mart's inadequate wages and benefits, Wal-Mart employees are eligible for $2.5 billion in Federal assistance, which comes from your tax dollars.

[Fledermaus]

They don't understand free markets. They hate them. They are marxist. If the minimum, or living, wage was $100 an hour they just can't understand the cost of that wage would go up to the point a box of ceral would be $12.

It's like listening to an old fart talk about "when I was little a loaf of bread only cost a nickel" and ignoring they only made 12 cents an hour.

The bottom line is they have absolutely no economic sense and wouldn't understand it if their lives depended on it.

Because for them it's emotional. They never, and I mean NEVER, look at the circumstances upon which they base their lousy assumption on. They totally ignore the individual in all cases and think all of their arguments are valid if they are universal proving they are communists.

Thus, every single person in their feeble mind making $8 an hour is some poor slob trying to raise a family of four with no health insurance and eating dog food. Facts mean nothing. Reality means nothing. They strive on platitudes and generalities to justify their mindset that life is just unfair. Wow...who knew?

So they drag there sorry butts to work at a job they hate that pays what they think is crap and get jealous and envious of someone next to them in a better car. Why aren't they driving a nice Lexus? Why aren't they eating lunch in a real restaurant instead of Taco Bell? It can't be them. They are so smart, so intelligent, so misunderstood.

Oh, it must be the evil capitalism and the unfair advantage that other person MUST have gotten in life. And to justify their pitiful delusions they pretend to trumpet the perceived downtrodden of poor Wal-Mart workers that are taken from their homes and forced to stock shelves with reasonably priced items people want to buy.

The Horror...the horror!

[Fledermaus]

ROAR

[Betaille]

"It's up to the employer to treat their employees fairly, starting with paying them enough money to live on or they are nothing more than exploiters"

Businesses operate in order to make money... not to provide livelihoods for their fellow citizens.

[scott7278]

It was a fascist plan by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, just with a new name.

[Aliska]

In debate class this was called "losing"

This is not debate class, and I'm tired and not going to look it up. If that makes me a loser, I'm afraid of what that makes you.

Your ad hominen insult to A. Pole was noted.

[stands2reason]

A previous post of his has him clamoring for more "conservative Republican" senators.

(cue Twilight Zone theme)

[Nowhere Man]

Freemarketeers see the society as a loose aggregation of individuals who pursue the individual gain. They see other people as a commodity. A nation, a family, a local community is seen by them as the superstitions of people less clever than them or at best as the tools to protect their assets.

In a sense they are similiar to the militant homosexuals who call people with normal families "the breeders".

Ya, I know, I see it the same way. Again, I might go out on a limb here and get whacked, but as we all know, the Democrats have their own problem with the "barking moonbats," well we have our own counter problem with the "Randroids." Trouble is that on our side, they leave a lot of people out such as poor Republicans, social conservatives, moderate conservatives, etc, people that generally share our views, might not agree on everything but still when you shunt these people aside, they will look for other avenues. I have to say I'm becoming one of them. If they keep telling people to "go jump in the lake," well they have made enemies. As the old Guiness Stout commercial says, "Brilliant!!!!" B-P

Freemarketeers make socialism look good.

Well, when you turn people away who could be your allies, and they have no where to go and they need to survive, well, as the saying goes, "any port in the storm." I know it was like that in Russia and that's how Bolshevism appealed to many. I know some of my relatives who stayed in Russia become Bolsheviks, some of them were in the Bolshevik Revolution, one rose to some influence in the Red Army although I'm looking for info on that one. The smart ones left and I'm here because of it but we can lose it all.

People are to be valued, not as some cogs in a socialist/communist machine or cogs in an uber capitalist, Galt's Gulch. I keep thinking of Pink Floyd's song, "The Machine." B-) I have realized that most people have value and can contribute once they are given a helping hand and a nudge from time to time. When people are seen as cogs, they resent it and later lash out or curl up, that is not good. To God and Jesus we are all somebody.

[Aliska]

How much money does it take to hold one's head up? I think the amount is $60 an hour.

It's more than that for the high and mighty who have bunches of letters after their names. Nothing is too good for them.

[Chef Dajuan]

I'm no socialist, you sanctimonious commie.

I think people who don't or won't work deserve to starve.

Get over it.

And keep yopur state and hands outta MY wallet.

I'll shop at Wally's all I want, just to tick you people off.

[Betaille]

I'm going to keep asking until you answer Aliska:

Why is a $100 minimum wage not logical?
Answer: Because everybody who makes less then $100 would simply become unemployed and many of the businesses that use such employees would shut down.

Now stay with me here...
Why is a $17 minimum wage not logical?
Answer: (fill in this space)

[Modok]

Then what is enough for the low and weak if it is not $60?

[Aliska]

Bolshie

Another ad hominem. And even snots like you couldn't drive me that far.

[stands2reason]

I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills and eat this month, and even I think you're FOS.

[Aliska]

What are you talking about? No one is forced to work for a wage they are not happy with.

Oh yes they are if they want to stay alive in this country.

[Betaille]

"Why aren't they driving a nice Lexus? Why aren't they eating lunch in a real restaurant instead of Taco Bell? It can't be them. They are so smart, so intelligent, so misunderstood."

My experience is that it's usually people who grew up wealthy, were sent to private liberal arts colleges, and then made nothing of themselves who are usually the most bitter about capitalism.

[Chef Dajuan]

Then they shoulda paid attention in school and learned something and some skills, shouldn't they?

I have no sympathy for them.

You're a commie, and I smell a DU plant.

[Gabz]

Sixteen dollars an hour is about right for a living wage today in our country unless you have something going on the side.

You don't say on your profile page where you are located - but it is obviously in a densely populated urban area. My husband makes a good deal less than $16 an hour, yet we are a comfortable family of 3, with a mortgage and car payment, we eat well, get to go out, take a vacation, and do lots of things on only his income.

Your idea of a "living wage" is purely subjective.

[Betaille]

"Oh yes they are if they want to stay alive in this country."
But then doesn't that mean that they ARE being paid a LIVING wage??

[Chef Dajuan]

I got news for ya.

Religion and economics DON'T mix.

You're as dense as thoise morons pushing Distributism here the other day because some monk was for it.

And you mixing Marxism with scripture is blasphemy.

[Larry Lucido]

Nationwide, millions of waitresses are eligible for government assistance because we only tip an average of 15% of the check. If only we would all tip 40%, they could all afford nice homes and cars. We are all guilty of being little evil Wal-Marts.