[Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work

[Tom Hansen]

Not only that, Garrett -

If we limit our work force potential to the WalMart, minimum wage, part-
time jobs, that is all we will ever have.  The labor force at these jobs 
will experience an approximate 25-percent turn-over every graduation day, 
as those very same employees graduate, pack their bags and move to greener 
pastures.

Should Walmart build a supercenter in Clarkston (as they are planning) and 
a supercenter in Pullman (which has been give the "green light" . . . and 
Hawkins Companies builds its state line mall, I suggest that we append a 
slogan to the Moscow city limits signs . . .

"When after graduation, you seek a career,
Don't bother look'n 'cause you won't find one here."

Seeya at the Intolerista Wingdin, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
SFC, US Army (Retired, Thank God)
Moscow, Idaho



> 
> Donovan satirizes:
> 
> "Now is the time to demand impossible standards of employers, and be as 
picky as possible
about the kind of jobs we want."
> 
> 
> Yes, let's bend over backwards for the Waltons. Instead of them relying 
on cheap labor in
China, let's give them cheap labor here in Moscow! We need the jobs, after 
all, and who
cares if we pollute the water manufacturing cheap stuff. At least 
Americans won't put
toxins in stuff they'll sell to other Americans, right? We'll keep stuff 
even cheaper
saving on fuel costs since we won't have to transport it half way round 
the world.
> 
> Yes, I want Walmart to keep growing and growing until all that's left 
are Walmart stores
because their quality is sooo good, I don't really want accountability, 
and I love the
Waltons so much I think they deserve a few more billion dollars. Who needs 
to make more
than a couple bucks a day, anyway?
> 
> 
> But seriously...
> 
> Walmarts sales are up 6.5% compareded to last year. The irony is, as 
people get poorer,
they need cheaper things, and they're less likely to care why things are 
so cheap, and
who's making the majority of the $$$. A terrible downward spiral.
> 
> Many people don't know or care that the family who owns Walmart is one 
of the richest
families on the planet. As of last September, 4 of the top 10 riches 
Americans are Waltons
on Forbes Riches Americans list, with a total net worth of almost $100 
billion.
> 
> According to http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/54/400list08_Jim-
Walton_JI38.html
> 
> Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer: 7,300 stores, 2 million 
employees serve 200
million customers. Sales: $378 billion
> 
> 
> Walmart may provide jobs in their ever-expanding business, and insure we 
have cheap stuff,
but at what cost?
> 
> In order for the Waltons to become super-billionaires, most other people 
are losing out.
There is a finite amount of wealth and resources, so to think that the 
Waltons could amass
such wealth without causing other people to loss money is idiotic.
> 
> Someone has to pay for their billions, and while they may provide cheap 
stuff for the poor
people they exploit, they are causing an unsustainable trade deficit 
supporting foreign
companies that have lax labor and environmental laws who sell to Walmart 
toxic toys and
food that Walmart then pushes on to poor Americans who in turn help cause 
the downfall of
smaller, family-owned and independent stores, who can't sell as cheap 
stuff because they
don't have the buying power, they actually try to pay their employees a 
living wage and
they don't have the political clout to gain tax-breaks from towns so 
desperate to create
jobs and have cheap stuff that they are willing to sacrifice downtowns to 
the holy Walton
empire who will then be able to hire Americans because in order to compete 
with foreign
labor we now are willing to work for nothing in polluted environments. Who 
needs high
standards, anyway!
> 
> I can accept that if you don't know that the Waltons are exploiting 
people to make their
billions you might support them, but if you're smart enough to put two and 
two together
and give your money to Walmart, you are culpable in allowing Walmart to 
continue to drive
American wages down, and possibly lower our labor and environmental 
standards in order to
compete.
> 
> It seems rather selfish that in order to maintain access to addictive 
cheap stuff some
would sacrifice the overall security of our country. Thus why the rich get 
richer, and the
poor get poorer. 
> 
> Fight for the right of poor people to have access to cheap stuff with 
one hand, drive the
stake into the heart of poor people with the other. How ironic!
> 
> Now is exactly the time to start building the foundation of a new 
economic model, not
continue to pour trillions into what obviously is a discredited system 
with Walmart
leading the charge. (Charge it to future generations, that is...)
> 
> gclev
> 
> 
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