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The Democratic National Convention Committee is returning $50,000 in Walmart gift cards after a labor union said the giant retailer flies in the face of the values we stand for as Democrats.
I commend the DNCC for doing the right thing, Joe Hansen, international president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union* said in a statement Monday.
The allegations of bribery and corruption against Walmart are serious and there is no way to know whether these contributions are tainted?
Walmart has a long track record of mistreating their workers.
read: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/05/08/2816645/democratic-national-convention.html
* me, UFCW member 29yrs.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)And anti union.
But we should take their money and still call them corrupt and anti union.
I do though fully understand and support the labor ideas.
mick063
(2,424 posts)of taking corrupt money and spending it on good ideas.
It legitimatizes the entire process of "government for hire" thinking.
Explain it to the theocrats using the book of Mathew:
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)The DNCC could have taken the cards and given them to various needy families. It could have helped a lot of people and Wal-Mart would not have benefited from it. If people are concerned about how it looks to take contributions from Wal-Mart, how does it look when we turn down donations to the poor in order to make some vague point?
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)DEMOCRATS THROW FOOD AWAY
POOR PEOPLE STARVE
DEMOCRATS WANT POOR PEOPLE TO DIE?
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)I can see it as an attack ad or as a piece on the O'Reilly Factor. It's a dumb move, IMO.
bigtree
(86,015 posts)What's the benefit for the poor to have it diverted through the DNC for the political ingratiation of Walmart?
The response to the blathering of an O'Reilly, or any other ignorant pos, is that if Walmart wants to give to the poor, they don't need our permission or our party's promotion.
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)bigtree
(86,015 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)It's pretty much a no win situation. But if they had kept the cards, they would have been criticized every time they said anything negative about WalMart.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)Republicans will say we are all socialist, baby-killing, secret terrorists no matter what we do.
So we should do what we think is right.
bigtree
(86,015 posts)"to a local food bank in Charlotte, as part of (a) $2 billion anti-hunger effort
If Walmart is sincere in making the donations, they don't need our party convention to promote it for them.
Besides, it's not clear to me what the convention would have done with them, anyway. Looks like they're going to a much more important cause than just ingratiating themselves with our party.
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)Just take the damn cards to a poor neighborhood and hand them out to the people standing in line at the welfare office, the unemployment office, you get the idea. It wouldn't take long to get rid of 1,000 $50 cards.
bigtree
(86,015 posts). . .without trying to get some political advantage from it? If they want to donate to the poor, they don't need our party's endorsement of their objectionable enterprise to do so.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Which is a raindrop compared to their deluge of profits made on the backs of their workers.
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)There are plenty of Wal-Mart stores located in neighborhoods where they could do a lot of good just by handing them to the customers walking in the door.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)Though if they really wanted to do some good, they could just pay folks more.
TBF
(32,121 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)turn down all donations from Wal-Mart? I seriously doubt it. Unless they do, the point they're trying to make doesn't seem very clear.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)They should give the cards to a charity that screens recipients to make sure they go to the poor and not to convention attendees.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)I boycotted Walmart many many many years ago. I had to do a research paper on their corporation and I was appalled at the way they treated their employees. Haven't shopped there since. I'm going to support this decision to the teeth.
joanbarnes
(1,723 posts)MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)Walmart is one of the largest contributors to the destruction of our democracy.
Muck Falmart!
Arkana
(24,347 posts)like this.
allan01
(1,950 posts)meh. walmart caught in the act. good for the dnc for returning the cards . what a blatent move on w/ms end
jwirr
(39,215 posts)was to have a presense at our convention. We do not want them - and just to be honest - I shop at Walmart because I cannot always afford to buy some things elsewhere.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Undercut the small retail shops that had served the community for generations. And when they had taken over and there was almost no place else to shop, they moved to the edge of town. They had loads of parking at their original site, so I guess that they moved avoid paying the town's taxes.
Shame on Walmart.