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[Dawgs]

Check out this editoral on Wal-Mart.

http://www.amarxica.com/pages/articles/hatewalmart.html

Just when I think my admiration for the nation's number one retailer couldn't grow any more, Wal-Mart recently announced that it plans to build more than 50 stores in plighted urban neighborhoods over the next two years.

..Let's look at the second liberal fear - low paying jobs with few benefits. This might sound cliché, but no one is forced to work at Wal-Mart. And no one is bound to that job for life if they decide to take it, just like no one must work at McDonald's or Burger King forever - both also pay what's considered a "low" wage. But let's look at a bigger issue; why are these jobs automatically considered in terms of "lifetime?"...

...The stores don't work as one unit. Each individual store can't handle the volume that Wal-Mart can. They also don't have the buyers and merchandisers to find the variety of products...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1610470/posts

FR: I think we should put Wal-Mart in charge of homeland security! They responded much faster to NO than any government agency.

FR: The ones seeking to pass the bill in the senate want to insure there will always be a permanent underclass in America. This so they can exploit them, while simpering they want to protect them. It is the new slavery unfolding before our very eyes.

FR: The same ones who demonize Wal-Mart for paying low wages and having substandard health care coverage, results in a social and tax drain due to the government having to pay for Wal-Mart employee's health care and financial assistance.

[Ian David]

1. Nobody mentioned that Wal-Mart is selling Brokeback Mountain?

Wal-Mart Sells 'Brokeback' Amid Conservative Protest
Christian group accuses the retailer of 'pushing an agenda' by featuring the gay-themed film.

By Claire Hoffman
Times Staff Writer
Published April 4, 2006

Wal-Mart to the producers of "Brokeback Mountain": We won't quit you.

Today, the largest retailer in the U.S. starts selling DVDs of the film about a gay love affair between two ranchers, despite protests from a national Christian organization.

The 3-million-member American Family Assn. initiated a campaign last week encouraging Wal-Mart customers to ask the company to refuse to stock the Universal film, whose director won an Academy Award last month, in its 3,900 stores.

The Tupelo, Miss.-based group began its campaign last week, after Wal-Mart placed ads with images of the film's stars, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, at the front of stores to promote the DVD release.

"It wasn't even a blockbuster movie, so if Wal-Mart isn't trying to push an agenda, why would they put it at the front door?" said Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the association, which calls itself an organization for "people who are tired of cursing the darkness and who are ready to light a bonfire."

More:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/la-fi-walmart4apr04,1,1395867.story?coll=chi-business-hed


Also:

Wal-Mart Won't Quit "Brokeback"
by Josh Grossberg
Apr 5, 2006, 10:30 AM PT
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18741,00.html

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Why do people demand that other peoples wages be lowered to their level

...instead of demanding that their pay be increased to a living wage.

Worse yet, many people (freeps in particular) feel wealthier when everyone else gets a cut in pay while they maintain their current level.
Reaganomix at it's worst.