"WalMart has done more to reduce poverty than any govt program"

[proud2BlibKansan]

LOL I am watching The Beltway Boys on faux Snooze. Talk about delusional. So now it is WalMart's responsibility to reduce poverty? And they are proud that the govt has done less than WalMart? Hey some compassionate conservatism ya got there. Walmart is commended for its low prices while they ignore the REASON they can afford to have such low prices. Who needs health insurance? And I guess we are supposed to just ignore all that child labor in China that produces the crap they sell at Walmart.

They also were positively gleeful that Michael Steele in MD is only 3 points behind his opponent. And they HAD to mention several times that Steele is African American.

This show is more entertaining than Katie Couric, lemme tell ya.

[Captain Hilts]

1. If you don't get sick while working for Wal-Mart....nt

[izzie]

2. I do not see it mush changed from working at Woolworth but

Now one needs a car to get to work and buy stuff. Not once did I ever hear that said about Woolworth. I do not think either give retirement of health care. Cosco does both.

[mcscajun]

21. Because Woolworth wasn't the biggest employer in the US

they didn't sell Every Freakin' thing a household needed, and they didn't cannibalize the other stores on Main Street.

I have fond memories of Woolworth, but I have never and will never set foot in a Wal-Mart.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I worked for Woolco in the 70s

They were a decent company as I recall. Worked for KMart too. Got health insurance even though I was a part time employee. And I got my birthday off with pay.

[izzie]

26. Well I guess you are right.

I rarely went into woolworth's as I found it better to go into the store that had only cloth and thread, or irons etc. I am not sure why. I also only go into wal-mart about once a year. I hate that store and I am not sure why but I never seem to find what I want. The one good thing I can say about the store is once my sister and I went and I found about 100 dollars blowing around the parking lot. You should have seen me running around picking it up. My sister keep saying what is wrong with you? And she finally got the point and started picking it up also. The store had a shop in the packing lot that was shut down so I guess it came from that. I did not turn it in.

[MadHound]

3. I guess they're not taking into consideration

Those 1.5 jobs lost in the community for every job Wal Mart creates? Just a minor little detail:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Ah who needs details

LOL

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. They also did more in the immediate wake of...

...Katrina for New Orleans citizens than our government. Of course, you could say this about anyone who did more than NOTHING for the citizens of New Orleans in the immediate wake of Katrina.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Why don't we just let Walmart run the govt?

Poverty would be gone! LOLOL

[baldguy]

15. You've just summarized the GOP economic platform in less than ten words.

[valerief]

17. Poverty wouldn't be gone. They would offer the *promise* that

poverty would be gone. And we know how well they keep their promises.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. What do I win?

A WalMart gift card?

[baldguy]

20. A job at Watmart

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. LOL I love that picture!

[rman]

6. WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price

http://www.walmartmovie.com/

trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSmlmXp-aU

[ClintonTyree]

11. Half of the top ten richest people in America............

are members of the Walton family. They got there by shitting on middle and lower class Americans, they very people who most often shop at their stores because they HAVE to. If there's one American family that I wish complete misfortune on (besides the Bushs, Cheneys etc.) it's the Walton family. I hope that there's some universal triple beam scale that evens things out in the end because these people really need a dose of their own medicine. Two doses. I bet they all go to church on Sundays though. :grr:

[flordehinojos]

8. wasn't tony snow part of the beltway boys at one time?

best training he could get for the job he now has. delusions. spins. lies. manipulations. crap!
it provided him with a forum to learn to smell the crap, put out the bushit delusional spins, and learn the art of prestidigitating the news.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. I noticed Wal-Mart's pensions are better than Social Securtiy..

:sarcasm:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Well then who needs social security?

For that matter, who needs to retire? There are plenty of greeter jobs at Walmart! :)

[ClintonTyree]

10. Wal*Mart is the direct reason..........

so many manufacturing jobs have been forever lost in our country. "Always low prices. Always". :eyes: Well, those "low prices" came from closing textile mills and manufacturers of myriad types of products in the United States. They could produce them cheaper in third world countries where slave labor is still allowed, even encouraged, and the American manufacturer couldn't compete. So every time Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack went to Wal*Mart to buy their pork and beans and hand towels they put Americans out of work. You'll never convince them of that though. Hell, they saved $.50 that they can later spend on NASCAR collectibles. :eyes:
Most people don't have a CLUE what that, "Always low prices. Always", COST them in the long run. Mr. Joe Sixpack no longer has a job because the Mill he worked at closed down because they couldn't compete with cheap foreign labor, but damn it, he SAVED $.50 by shopping at Wal*Mart! :banghead:
90% of people polled say they're of above average intelligence. Think about that. Man, is this country in trouble, or what? :banghead:

[mcscajun]

24. Simple. Everyone out there is surrounded by people they *know*

aren't as smart as they are, so they Must Be "Above Average".

Simple. Just like most of the respondents.

[xchrom]

12. it's faux news job to pedal insanity.

and they continue to do that in good order.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. It is great entertainment

I watch it a lot. :evilgrin:

[valerief]

16. Who knew making people unemployed by closing their businesses

in town after town *actually* reduces poverty! I'm too stupid to understand how that works. It seems to me it would increase poverty. But then, I'm not a Walmart brainiac.

[NOLADEM]

19. I guess they aren't counting when Wal-Mart PUTS you there

[n2doc]

25. replace "reduce" with "induce" n/t