Walmart 1, greedy progressive unions 0: Liberals slapped down by reality
☆astac☆
2012/11/27 14:20:16
Well the progressive left and their attack on Freedom and Capitalism took a big hit over the weekend. Seems the progressive left has been trying to destroy Walmart for years, and this past weekend was their biggest effort to date. What did it get them, out of 1 million workers, only 50 listened to the progressives. Such an epic fail for the progressives. Lets keep it up, lets keep kicking the progressives until they are out of the country
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2ndCityMolly 2012/11/28 05:56:26
Not only that, but Walmart destroys small businesses.
They say ignorance is bliss.
Let's start with the fact that Walmart exists only because it has become adept at gorging at the public trough. When wally world came to my town it got: Land it didn't have to pay for, utility upgrades paid for, access improvements it didn't pay for, subsidized workers wages and free training, it's workers are the single largest recipient of state health care..In the state of California alone the highest percentage of employed people on Medicaid in one state work for Walmart! .That's Socialism hiding under the banner of Free market principles.
But let's applaud them for thumbing their nose at those evil unions, NOT! (it's a smoke screen for the fact that they socialize all of their liabilities).
Bottom line, when multinational conglomerates get an unfair advantage against their competition by leveraging all of their liabilities, it's not beating the other retailers "at their own game", it's the use of lobbyism, and back door politics that get them success at the cost of you and I..By the way in 2004, Walmart became one of the nation's biggest corporate contributors in Washington).Wal-Mart employees top the list of Medicaid recipients in 21 states, including Texas, that have disclosed the data, including Texas. Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro has introduced legislation t...
Let's start with the fact that Walmart exists only because it has become adept at gorging at the public trough. When wally world came to my town it got: Land it didn't have to pay for, utility upgrades paid for, access improvements it didn't pay for, subsidized workers wages and free training, it's workers are the single largest recipient of state health care..In the state of California alone the highest percentage of employed people on Medicaid in one state work for Walmart! .That's Socialism hiding under the banner of Free market principles.
But let's applaud them for thumbing their nose at those evil unions, NOT! (it's a smoke screen for the fact that they socialize all of their liabilities).
Bottom line, when multinational conglomerates get an unfair advantage against their competition by leveraging all of their liabilities, it's not beating the other retailers "at their own game", it's the use of lobbyism, and back door politics that get them success at the cost of you and I..By the way in 2004, Walmart became one of the nation's biggest corporate contributors in Washington).Wal-Mart employees top the list of Medicaid recipients in 21 states, including Texas, that have disclosed the data, including Texas. Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro has introduced legislation that would require Texas’ large employers to disclose their number of employees on state-funded health care programs. Wal-Mart lobbyists have opposed the measure, calling it “unfair.”
Hard working Americans subsidize Walmart to come into their
communities through tax refunds. Those dollars come out of your and
my pockets!
Then Walmart pays low wages while helping their employees take
advantage of government programs such as food stamps, child care and
health care. That comes out of your and my wallets!
Tell me something; did you feel such disdain when Obama and unions socialized GM and Chrysler at the expense of all other transportation companies?
By the way, you do know that Chrysler has repaid $11.2 billion — including $2 billion in undrawn loans — but it is unlikely to recover the rest which amounts to about 1 billion dollars ( when you consider the dire consequences this had for countless number of jobs and our economy, that's a sound contribution in my humble opinion).
Refuse to see? My eyes are wide open, are yours? Amazing how you choose to go off point and cloud the issue made here, you must work for Walmart.
They didn't. The talk about better fuel economy cars has been around since the 70's. Do the math and that works out to something like forty years of oil scarcity being at the top of the public's mind. Forty years is a long time to simply ignore reality.
An Edsel is still and Edsel. If you make one that got 100 miles per gallon and nobody wants it, you've failed. You have to give the consumer what they want. The only vehicles short-sited consumers wanted from these companies was their SUV's. They made lots of economy models, but the quality sucked so consumers wanting economy went to Toyota, Honda, etc.
They satisfied the market? They ignored it for almost 40 years!!
By the way, Volt sales are improving.