Posted on 09/16/2006 6:51:22 AM PDT by bitt
Liberal campaign hurts people who need bargains
Evergreen Park, Ill., a suburb contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city, and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African-American. One of whom, a woman pushing a shopping cart with a stoical 3-year-old along for the ride, has a chip on her shoulder about the size of this 141,000 square-foot Wal-Mart. She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down because, she said, the person doing the hiring "had an attitude."
So why is the woman shopping here anyway? She looks at the questioner as though he is dimwitted and directs his attention to the low prices of the DVDs on the rack next to her.
Sensibly, she compartmentalizes her moods and her money. Besides, she should not brood. She had lots of company in not being hired: More than 25,000 people applied for the 325 openings.
Which vexes liberals like John Kerry. (He and his helpmeet last shopped at Wal-Mart when?) In 2004 he tested what has become one of the Democrats' 2006 themes: Wal-Mart is, he said, "disgraceful"and symbolic of "what's wrong with America."
By now, Democrats have succeeded, to their embarrassment (if they are susceptible to that), in making the basic numbers familiar: The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel.
A McKinsey company study concluded that Wal-Mart accounted for 13 percent of the nation's productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s, ...
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Are they national? If not, then why bother mentioning them? People will look around and shop where they get the best value. I recall a couple of years ago, comparing prices and finding Target to be higher than K Mart and some other stores. Didn't shope at Target! lol
Here is a short little release by your movement, and it makes clear your politics. Why you thought linking us to wakeupwalmart.com would persuade conservatives to support the union movement, and the left is beyond me.
Starting August 1, 2006 in New York City, WakeUpWalMart.com started a 19-state, 35-day tour of 35 cities across the country. By mid-August the bus was in Iowa, where a number of presidential hopefuls also happened to be. On August 15 Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) participated in an event in front of the Linn County Court House in Cedar Rapids; on August 16 Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) participated in a press conference at the Iowa State Historical building in Des Moines; and on August 17 Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) and Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-IA) participated in a town hall meeting at Sullivan Brothers Convention Center in Waterloo. WakeUpWalMart.com is a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
Also, this Paul Blank is only 27 and has never had a real job. His job is this anti Walmart website. What a scam.
What if your workplace told the union that if they didn't reduce your wages, they would move to Mexico? IT HAPPENS!
Duty? Since when is there a "duty" to provide benefits? Benefits are an inducement.
Most employers offer decent wages and health care benefits. WM elects to provide the minimum.
Which is their right. WM's DUTY is to make as much money as possible. If benefits isn't part of their business model, then so be it.
Want a job with benefits? Here's a thought: Go to college when you are young or learn a real trade and then make yourself attractive to the marker and get a job that offers benefits.
I know it is a radical idea.
The irony here is that I'm opposing a company requiring employees to go on Medicaid.
WM does not nor could they REQUIRE their employees go on Medicaid.
"Looks like this Paul Blank is a former political director for the Howard Dean campaign. That explains a lot.Here"
Wow, that is rich
So is my company. When we approach the renewal time for health care they have stacks of "Husky Care" (CT's form of socialized health care) pamphlets on the personnel manager's desk. They are promoting the program to avoid having to pay enough wages for the people to pay for health care themselves.
I love shopping at the Walmart grocery stores. I save so much more money and now only go to the chain supermarkets for emergencies only. The stores aren't union here but the prices are still higher than Walmart.
"Blanket allegations about unions stirring up trouble for WM miss the point: Local folks are angry today and fighting back."
Quit trying to BS these people, you are an activist that is trying to contribute to the national publicity campaign your side is on right now.
Foraging. Bartering. Dumpster Diving. And of course recycling. Yum, recycled pot roast.
But you are conveniently ignoring the stories showing these local businesses weren't paying any more or providing health care for their employees either. And you are also ignoring those stories showing where Walmart, as an anchor store, draws in and improves the economy of the area.
Some communities learned the hard way that WM destroys local businesses.
This is what it usually boils down to. Local businesses that have been gouging their customers for years get upset when competition moves in and they are no longer able to charge the inflated prices they are used to. Liberal socialism at work.
WalMart must have something going for it.
"Why do people shop here? Prices are lower at Target."
Where are you? That is certainly not true here in Oklahoma. Not as a general rule, at any rate. For some items, perhaps.
Great pic! I'd pay money to see that creep in a WalMart vest for real.
It's not true anywhere.
The RATs also seem to be unaware that there are 1.3 W-M employees who will think seriously about not voting for the Party that wants to destroy their employer. They also fail to recall that about six of the top billionnaires in the world are named Walton. Will the Walton rich donate to RAT candadiates? NOT!
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