Friday, March 16, 2007
More Anti-Wal-Mart Food for Thought
Wal Mart... A Violator of Human Rights?:
Why do I hate Wal-Mart? Because Wal-Mart hates me and you and everyone else but they love, love, love your money. They can't wait to get it so they can send it China where it will never come back into circulation in the US, ever.
If you shop at Wal-Mart you are enabling this exploitation, you are directly working to undermine the strength of the USA. Wal-Mart is not about low prices, Wal-Mart is about shaving costs at whatever price and hiding expenses that they can shift to localities, counties and states.
Wal-Mart is a despicable company that could be using its power to make the world a better place but that doesn't please shareholders as much as an extra penny on their dividends.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Wal-Mart Cheats the Law to Get Into India
According to www.pbs.org, the average take-home pay of an American Wal-Mart employee is under $250 a week; the minimum wage pay scale places employees with families below the poverty line. The company is staunchly anti-union, and Wal-Mart employees make 25% less than their unionized counterparts after two years on the job. 85% of the stores' merchandise is made overseas, often in Third World sweatshops. Wal-Mart is the country's largest importer of Chinese goods in any industry.At $250 a week in take home pay, that works out to a whopping $12,000 a year. Add in some kids and you've got a recipe for indentured servitude, the employees are too in debt to make waves or go find a job somewhere else.
Why do I hate Wal-Mart? Because Wal-Mart hates me and you and everyone else but they love, love, love your money. They can't wait to get it so they can send it China where it will never come back into circulation in the US, ever.
If you shop at Wal-Mart you are enabling this exploitation, you are directly working to undermine the strength of the USA. Wal-Mart is not about low prices, Wal-Mart is about shaving costs at whatever price and hiding expenses that they can shift to localities, counties and states.
Wal-Mart is a despicable company that could be using its power to make the world a better place but that doesn't please shareholders as much as an extra penny on their dividends.
Labels: exploitation, poverty, wal-mart, walmart
Sunday, March 04, 2007
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Digg It!Wal-Mart Cheats the Law to Get Into India
Protests Greet Wal-Mart In India
Also, you'll read about FDI in the article and its not explained, FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment. And Wal-Mart's backdoor entry into India is an end-around of policy regulations intended to keep multinationals from preying on the soft Indian economy.
Oh yeah, before anyone gets all flustered that the link is to the Communist Party of India, the link goes to the People's Democracy site which is the news outlet for the Communist Party in India. Get over it. Communism isn't evil.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, India, protest, union
"Wal-Mart is the biggest monopoly retailer in the world which is infamous for its pathetic record of violating labour laws, union-busting, displacing small retailers and exploiting small producers of manufactured and agricultural commodities. Its entry into India, which would invariably be followed by the other multinational retailers like TESCO and Carrefour, would monopolise the retail market in India in their hands causing harmful effects to all sections of the people. It would cause large scale displacement of small retailers and squeezing of domestic manufacturers and farmers. Expansion of the Wal-Mart chains has caused massive closure of small stores and pauperisation of poor communities even in the United States."Yep, even in the USA, Wal-Mart has caused massive harm to small stores and does a really superb bang-up job of pooring down communities. And that quote does a really good job of summing up what it is that Wal-Mart inflicts on localities and states that allow them to land there.
Also, you'll read about FDI in the article and its not explained, FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment. And Wal-Mart's backdoor entry into India is an end-around of policy regulations intended to keep multinationals from preying on the soft Indian economy.
Oh yeah, before anyone gets all flustered that the link is to the Communist Party of India, the link goes to the People's Democracy site which is the news outlet for the Communist Party in India. Get over it. Communism isn't evil.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, India, protest, union
Labels: India, protest, wal-mart