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08-22-2007, 01:29 PM
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NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
Check out this article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6956567.stm It's about the riots in Bangladesh by the youth. Don't fail to read the last sentence of the article. Then note to yourself that a lot of our clothes are made there. If you haven't seen "The High Cost of Low Prices" you've got to see it. See: www.walmartmovie.com The video is about how Wal Mart corrupts the free market thru unfair/illegal practices to corner their market. Interesting facts: Lee Scott, CEO of WalMart earned 27.2 million in 2005. Avg Wal Mart hrly employee: 13.8k. 1.008 billion in federal subsidies to open new stores. 1.55 billion in federal aid to employees to subsidize their income. Wal Mart paid 50 million in fines for cheating employees out of hrs worked. HERE IS THE SICKEST STAT OF ALL: A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado. In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers Source: Form 990, Wal-Mart Associates in Critical Need Fund, 2004 The Walton Family gave $6,000 
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#2
08-23-2007, 07:59 PM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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Check out this article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6956567.stm It's about the riots in Bangladesh by the youth. Don't fail to read the last sentence of the article. Then note to yourself that a lot of our clothes are made there. If you haven't seen "The High Cost of Low Prices" you've got to see it. See: www.walmartmovie.com The video is about how Wal Mart corrupts the free market thru unfair/illegal practices to corner their market. Interesting facts: Lee Scott, CEO of WalMart earned 27.2 million in 2005. Avg Wal Mart hrly employee: 13.8k. 1.008 billion in federal subsidies to open new stores. 1.55 billion in federal aid to employees to subsidize their income. Wal Mart paid 50 million in fines for cheating employees out of hrs worked. HERE IS THE SICKEST STAT OF ALL: A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado. In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers Source: Form 990, Wal-Mart Associates in Critical Need Fund, 2004 The Walton Family gave $6,000 [/ QUOTE ] As you can see, your post falls on mostly deaf ears here. The pure theory capitalists that frequent this forum will both malign & bury mostly anyone who is critical of their latest god, Wal-Mart. Good luck......
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#4
08-23-2007, 08:12 PM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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So your problem shouldn't be with Wal-Mart it should be with the government intervention that allows them to play this game. [/ QUOTE ] The problem is with both....... ....The government that allows them to do what they do. ....The Walmart "Scorched Earth" version of the capitalist's dream that drives their actions.
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#5
08-23-2007, 08:23 PM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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[ QUOTE ] So your problem shouldn't be with Wal-Mart it should be with the government intervention that allows them to play this game. [/ QUOTE ] The problem is with both....... ....The government that allows them to do what they do. ....The Walmart "Scorched Earth" version of the capitalist's dream that drives their actions. [/ QUOTE ] Which problem do you think is the most correctable?
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#6
08-23-2007, 08:27 PM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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What does NAFTA have to do with anything? [ QUOTE ] 1.008 billion in federal subsidies to open new stores. 1.55 billion in federal aid to employees to subsidize their income. [/ QUOTE ] This doesn't really matter--it represents less than 1% of the company's sales. I'd prefer to have this money go somewhere less pointless, though. Also, this is extremely vague (and most likely manipulative) language. [ QUOTE ] Lee Scott, CEO of WalMart earned 27.2 million in 2005. Avg Wal Mart hrly employee: 13.8k. [/ QUOTE ] Not at all uncommon or exceptional for America or any other developed nation. That figure is, it shuold be noted, starkly different from what the Yahoo! Finance Wal Mart Profile says. These are much, much more in line with what I know to be true: my friend's father was a Wal-Mart executive and made less than $1m/year. [ QUOTE ] Wal Mart paid 50 million in fines for cheating employees out of hrs worked. [/ QUOTE ]It is wrong not to pay people for hours worked. Wal-Mart is trying to train store managers not to do this, according to said friend's father. [ QUOTE ] A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado. In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers Source: Form 990, Wal-Mart Associates in Critical Need Fund, 2004 The Walton Family gave $6,000 [/ QUOTE ] Your point being? Wal-Mart had the fastest and most meaningful reponses to one of the biggest crises in recent American history: Hurricane Katrina. Any idea what the actual corporation payed to this fund? Corporations are people too, you know.
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#7
08-23-2007, 08:44 PM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] So your problem shouldn't be with Wal-Mart it should be with the government intervention that allows them to play this game. [/ QUOTE ] The problem is with both....... ....The government that allows them to do what they do. ....The Walmart "Scorched Earth" version of the capitalist's dream that drives their actions. [/ QUOTE ] Which problem do you think is the most correctable? [/ QUOTE ] One is an issue of Law and Legislation. The other is an issue of Ethics and Philosophy. The former is guided by the latter, and they seem to go hand in hand. I do not have the wisdom to determine "which problem" is more correctable, however that does not mean that I don't have the vision to see clearly that they are both issues.
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#8
08-25-2007, 03:23 AM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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Wal-Mart had the fastest and most meaningful reponses to one of the biggest crises in recent American history: Hurricane Katrina. Any idea what the actual corporation payed to this fund? Corporations are people too, you know. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know. They reported in the documentary that Gates has given away 50% of his riches and the Walton family 1%. Wal-Mart is a prime example of how greed hurts more people throughout the world than homosexuality. Which would explain why the sin greed, is addressed much more often in the bible than homosexuality.
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#10
08-25-2007, 05:44 AM
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Re: NAFTA etc no longer can hold back inflation?
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[ QUOTE ] Wal-Mart had the fastest and most meaningful reponses to one of the biggest crises in recent American history: Hurricane Katrina. Any idea what the actual corporation payed to this fund? Corporations are people too, you know. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know. They reported in the documentary that Gates has given away 50% of his riches and the Walton family 1%. Wal-Mart is a prime example of how greed hurts more people throughout the world than homosexuality. Which would explain why the sin greed, is addressed much more often in the bible than homosexuality. [/ QUOTE ] Nice. You are the new king of bad politics posters and that is a heavily contested title let me tell you.
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