Here's a list of the nation's largest employers. Gives you an new perspective of where we are as a country.
Company Employees
1. Wal-Mart 1,800,000
2. McDonald's 447,000
3. United Parcel Service 407,000
4. Sears Holdings 355,000
5. Home Depot 345,000
6. Target 337,000
7. IBM 329,373
8. General Motors 327,000
9. General Electric 316,000
10. Citigroup 303,000
11. Ford Motor 300,000
12. Kroger 289,000
13. Albertson's 240,000
14. United Technologies 222,200
15. Verizon Communications 217,000
16. FedEx 215,838
17. Safeway 201,000
18. Altria Group 199,000
19. Aramark 195,000
20. Berkshire Hathaway 192,012
21. AT&T 189,950
22. Delphi 185,200
23. Bank of America 176,638
24. JP Morgan Chase 168,847
25. Yum Brands 165,920
26. HCA 165,450
27. Lowe's 164,794
28. PepsiCo 157,000
29. Walgreen 155,200
30. Wells Fargo 153,500
31. Boeing 153,000
32. Darden Restaurants 150,100
33. Hewlett-Packard 150,000
34. Gap 150,000
35. JC Penney 150,000
36. Starwood Hotels and Resorts 145,000
37. Marriott International 143,000
38. Sara Lee 137,000
39. Lockheed Martin 135,000
40. Walt Disney 133,000
41. Alcoa 129,000
42. Northrop Grumman 123,600
43. Electronic Data Systems 117,000
44. Honeywell 116,000
45. Johnson & Johnson 115,600
46. Lear 115,113
47. Starbucks 115,000
48. Emerson Electric 114,200
49. CVS 114,000
50. Tyson Foods 114,000
I'll say...we buy stuff, we eat stuff and we deliver stuff to each other. :-) I was also surprised to see that GM and Ford were still so high. Where's Toyota? I always hear from liberals how Toyota has plants in the US and employ lots of people too. It seems they avoided hiring that many people. I expect the UAW is not pleased.