Union Resurgance

[PCL_128]

That's right, Wal Mart provides nothing..... becides low prices, massive tax revenue, etc.

And poverty for their employees, forcing their health care costs onto the state medicaid programs, driving good small businesses out of business, etc... WalMart needs to die.

 

[pilotyip]

Other benefit

That's right, Wal Mart provides nothing..... becides low prices, massive tax revenue, etc.

Not to mention a major factor in controlling inflation, you can not raise prices if there is a Wal-Mart here you.

 

[Carl_Spackler]

Not to mention a major factor in controlling inflation, you can not raise prices if there is a Wal-Mart here you.

Thank you pilotyip. This is an often overlooked benefit of walmart. Do you think target would charge higher or lower prices if walmart didn't exist?


PCL: The free market (ie millions upon millions of people that decide to shop at walmart) says it is good.

No walmart employee is forced to work there, and no one is forced to stay working there. If they don't have the mental capacity or motivation to move up, or move on to a higher paying job, that is not walmart's problem.

Walmart does far more to help the poor that you think it does to harm them. I recall that they will sell perscription drugs for $5. Your SS check will buy you more at walmart than anywhere else.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

If this works, then maybe every unionized Walmart worker will demand $100,000 a year. The local LaRaza union will also demand $100 to mow your lawn. The plumbers union will be able to charge $400 to fix your toilet while you are on a trip. This will be awesome!!!!!!

This shows how stupid the average airline pilot is, while you have been living rent free in your parents basement, they have been paying the bills. If you can get away with a $400.00 plumbing bill, you are lucky, ask your mom, she probably had to blow the plumber just to get her senior discount! And you don't even wanna know what she did for/to the lawnmower driver. All while you were on that 5 day reserve tour.
PBR

 

[PBRstreetgang]

That's right, Wal Mart provides nothing..... becides low prices, massive tax revenue, etc.

Low prices that make the Chinese government rich, massive tax costs due to lack of benefits to it's part time labor force. Why do you think communities all over the country try to block Wallymart from building in their communities, the Wallymart way of business is expensive for the local economy.
Stupid, stupid, stupid
wake up
PBR

 

[PCL_128]

Low prices that make the Chinese government rich, massive tax costs due to lack of benefits to it's part time labor force. Why do you think communities all over the country try to block Wallymart from building in their communities, the Wallymart way of business is expensive for the local economy.
Stupid, stupid, stupid
wake up
PBR

Exactly. Amazing that the WalMart lovers can't see this.

 

[waka]

You think you're going to get 70,000 pilots to all strike on the same day in an illegal strike? Good luck. I'd bet over half would cross the lines just because King George Dubya tells them to.

Dubya would just declare a nat'l pilot strike as a threat to nat'l security and the Department of Homeland Security would gain authority to "detain" anyone involved in labor actions......wouldn't put it past our monkey-brained president.

 

[PurpleInMEM]

Exactly. Amazing that the WalMart lovers can't see this.

Whatever, but I sure do like their dividends. Don't like Walmart? Buy some shares, your opinion will change.

Oh the poor, downtrodden proletariat.

 

[PCL_128]

Dubya would just declare a nat'l pilot strike as a threat to nat'l security and the Department of Homeland Security would gain authority to "detain" anyone involved in labor actions......wouldn't put it past our monkey-brained president.

Ain't that the truth.

 

[PCL_128]

Whatever, but I sure do like their dividends. Don't like Walmart? Buy some shares, your opinion will change.

Oh the poor, downtrodden proletariat.

Sorry, but I have no desire to benefit from dividends at the expense of the employees that can't afford health care, let alone stock. WalMart is evil.