Give Media mogul hell Sam.. Obviously he is a hysterical liberal. You know, one of those that reads nothing but believes in proproganda spewed forth by his tribe of libs..
Oh and Chad.. Good work too. You and Sam are on target, er Wal-mart.. A mighty fine place for a million folks to work..
Yes, the court found Wal~Mart guilty. However, Orenthal James Simpson was found innocent. Please don\’t assume that because a court says something is \”so\” that makes it true and just. If that were the case, there would be no need for appellate courts. Since we do have, and use, an appeals process it is indisputable that sometime courts make mistakes.
I am admittedly uneducated about the Wal~Mart case and \”peasant\” insurance in general, but I don\’t understand what Wal~Mart did wrong. They paid to recruit, hire, and train a person. They pay that person to generate income/profit for them. If that person dies, WM then has to recruit, hire, and train a new \”peasant\”. That process costs real money. How is that not an insurable interest? Why Can\’t Wal~Mart take out insurance to cover that exposure?
If someone else here has actual knowledge of how corporations avoid taxes or how that process is unfair to the employees, and would be willing to explain it to me in A CIVIL AND POLITE MANNER, I am interested in hearing that information.
On a different note, I would like to address people talking about Wal~Marts history and business model. I was a Wal~Mart employee for 3 years before sam Walton Died, and 4 years after. Within one year of Sam\’s death the company began undergoing radical changes. Wal~Mart in 1989 and Wal~Mart in 1995 are two completely different companies. One is a traditional retailer being successful by exploiting underserved markets and treating customers and employees with resepct and dignity. The other is a predatory \”profit first\” juggernaut with no sense of community or decency.
I watched it happen. As someone here pointed out the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. I witnessed Wal~Mart go from being a once great company to a monster that has been twisted and abused by a morally deficient management team.
Wal-Mart Called a \’Blatant Shill for Environmentalists\’
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
December 08, 2006
(CNSNews.com) – Wal-Mart has long been under fire from labor unions for fighting attempts to unionize its employees, but a conservative ethics group Tuesday accused the retail giant of trying in recent years to appeal to liberal interests and \”cowering\” under pressure from activists.
\”Despite standing up to union bullying, the company does little to defend the free market principles that have made it so successful,\” the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) said in a study examining the corporation\’s policies over the last three years.
\”Cowering to activist pressure, Wal-Mart has over the last three years become a strident advocate of environmentalism, affirmative action, and homosexual rights in an attempt to quell some of the politically charged criticism,\” it said. (Social conservatives have blasted Wal-Mart for joining the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.)
NLPC director of policy John Carlisle, who authored the study, told Cybercast News Service that Wal-Mart had become a \”blatant shill for the environmental movement.\”
\”For obvious reasons Wal-Mart is an unusually influential corporation. And starting two, three years ago Wal-Mart started to aggressively support a variety of liberal causes, especially the environment,\” he said.
\”They have completely got on board the global warming band wagon,\” Carlisle added. \”It is scientifically dubious that global warming is even occurring, but as far as Lee Scott, the CEO, is concerned it is a done deal.\”
In October 2005, Scott said Wal-Mart\’s goals were to solely use renewable energy, to create zero waste materials, and to sell environmentally friendly products that sustain natural resources.
\”What is especially disturbing is that Wal-Mart is pressuring its vast army of 50,000 suppliers to adhere to its environmental mandates,\” Carlisle said. \”This could have some very negative ramifications for many businesses. Many large businesses can adhere to environmental mandates, but many small- and medium-sized businesses cannot.\”
Carlisle said he did not believe the leftward shift signaled a change in the company\’s principles.
\”This is not about principles, it is about trying to silence some of the left-wing criticism [directed at] the company,\” Carlisle said. \”They\’ve been on the defensive for three or four years for alleged labor malpractices.\”
\”I think it\’s going to fail,\” he said of the tactic. \”Wal-Mart is not going to be able to pry the environmentalists away from the labor unions, which is what they are trying to do — isolate the unions.\”
Joy Bernstein, press secretary for Wal-Mart Watch, one of the groups whose goal is to force Wal-Mart to unionize, had a different view:
\”We believe Wal-Mart is trying, through marketing, to bring a different demographic to shop at their stores because they are faced with declining sales and weakened stock,\” she told Cybercast News Service.
\”While we applaud their environmental promises, we believe they would be better served by treating their workers with respect, paying them a living wage, and offering them affordable healthcare.\”
\”To be quite honest, if they were trying to appeal to the left — truly appeal to the left — they would be changing their policies,\” she said.
\”Their promises don\’t mean anything to anyone. If Wal-Mart truly wanted to appeal to the left they would treat their workers better.\”
Wal-Mart did not respond to multiple invitations to react to the report.
go no further than White Castle; first Walmart, next White Castle. It\’s simple; first, they take all those street corners where the corner drugstore used to be; talk about messing with community! Then they\’re open all nite, attracting all kinds of vagrants, many of whom shop at Wal-Mart based upon their dress; what happens when the two of these team up! No benefits or health insurance for anyone, and everyone will have 24 hour workweeks…I bet they are getting secret life insurance policies on customers; first they clog their arteries, then they cash in!
More than 80 years.
More than 380 restaurants.
More than 500,000,000 burgers sold last year alone.
But when you add it up, the by-the-numbers White Castle math just can\’t compare to the steam-grilled science of creating that signature Slyder.® Or the consistent history of high quality and great taste that turned fast food into big business and jumpstarted the nation\’s first hamburger century. (Well, almost a century: meat rationing during World War II forced us to sell hot dogs and eggs.) Or, most of all, the shared secret language of committed Cravers across the country, the words and senses that turn all of you into One of Ours.
Still, math is pretty fundamental. Mostly because, in White Castle mathematics (crunched at our Columbus, Ohio, headquarters), the number one keeps popping up.
First fast-food hamburger chain ever. First industrial-strength spatula. First mass-produced paper hat. First to sell a million hamburgers. First to sell a billion hamburgers. First frozen fast food for sale.
All of which, of course, makes us your number one. Hold your applause for your next burgers.
Lost track of the overall counts of media moguls \’insults\’…I believe the gist is we who support Wal-Mart do it because we\’re in Iraq for oil and W drives a hummer with wood dash inserts that come from slave labor camps in central America because we can\’t think outside of the box and we\’d only get a C- from Milton Friedman if we were in his class. Whew! I\’m frank aquiver with the embarrassment I have suffered at media\’s insults. Perhaps someday I\’ll typecast everyone who likes or dislikes a court decision against Wal-Mart as well as Media Mogul, but keep in mind, I didn\’t have the benefit of Media\’s top flight education. Please pity me and the rest of us who do not know what we do not know. In the meantime, I\’ll continue to support the retail outlets who give me the best value. That, or I\’ll trade in my Hummer and buy a new Studebaker or Oldsmobile as soon as possible.
I\’ve never met anyone like him, fortunately. Aside from avoiding the issues raised and calling names like a child, he is only regurgitating moveon.org drivel written by tinfoil-hat whackos who think Karl Rove is hiding under the bed.
Great job media mogul. Keep up the great work. People like sam and chad are sad and remind me of childhood school yard bullies. They were the only name callers on the messages. Love it when a Court comes to some decision they (sam, chad, et al.) do not like the judge is immediately labeled \”liberal\” or \”activist\”, talk about your name calling. In regards to WM, never been in one and will never go in one. S&C, hope you kids grow up and take your blinders off as this is really a big world you may even learn that the world is not flat.
Yes indeed. Once the insults come out and reason leaves, you have neo-con parrots involved. Hardly worth the time to respond to uneducated, childish rants. Does momma know you guys are using the computer today?
The REAL issue was a tax dodge used to enrich the company in a really sleazy way. \”Key man\” has been around for a long long time and is very much a valid, insurable risk. Buying life insurance on your cashiers is just sick.
Adjuster-
I\’m not being a smart-***- I really want to know- how is what WM did a tax dodge? And why was taking out insurance on cashiers ruled reprehensible?
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Give Media mogul hell Sam.. Obviously he is a hysterical liberal. You know, one of those that reads nothing but believes in proproganda spewed forth by his tribe of libs..
Oh and Chad.. Good work too. You and Sam are on target, er Wal-mart.. A mighty fine place for a million folks to work..
Yes, the court found Wal~Mart guilty. However, Orenthal James Simpson was found innocent. Please don\’t assume that because a court says something is \”so\” that makes it true and just. If that were the case, there would be no need for appellate courts. Since we do have, and use, an appeals process it is indisputable that sometime courts make mistakes.
I am admittedly uneducated about the Wal~Mart case and \”peasant\” insurance in general, but I don\’t understand what Wal~Mart did wrong. They paid to recruit, hire, and train a person. They pay that person to generate income/profit for them. If that person dies, WM then has to recruit, hire, and train a new \”peasant\”. That process costs real money. How is that not an insurable interest? Why Can\’t Wal~Mart take out insurance to cover that exposure?
If someone else here has actual knowledge of how corporations avoid taxes or how that process is unfair to the employees, and would be willing to explain it to me in A CIVIL AND POLITE MANNER, I am interested in hearing that information.
On a different note, I would like to address people talking about Wal~Marts history and business model. I was a Wal~Mart employee for 3 years before sam Walton Died, and 4 years after. Within one year of Sam\’s death the company began undergoing radical changes. Wal~Mart in 1989 and Wal~Mart in 1995 are two completely different companies. One is a traditional retailer being successful by exploiting underserved markets and treating customers and employees with resepct and dignity. The other is a predatory \”profit first\” juggernaut with no sense of community or decency.
I watched it happen. As someone here pointed out the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. I witnessed Wal~Mart go from being a once great company to a monster that has been twisted and abused by a morally deficient management team.
Wal-Mart Called a \’Blatant Shill for Environmentalists\’
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
December 08, 2006
(CNSNews.com) – Wal-Mart has long been under fire from labor unions for fighting attempts to unionize its employees, but a conservative ethics group Tuesday accused the retail giant of trying in recent years to appeal to liberal interests and \”cowering\” under pressure from activists.
\”Despite standing up to union bullying, the company does little to defend the free market principles that have made it so successful,\” the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) said in a study examining the corporation\’s policies over the last three years.
\”Cowering to activist pressure, Wal-Mart has over the last three years become a strident advocate of environmentalism, affirmative action, and homosexual rights in an attempt to quell some of the politically charged criticism,\” it said. (Social conservatives have blasted Wal-Mart for joining the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.)
NLPC director of policy John Carlisle, who authored the study, told Cybercast News Service that Wal-Mart had become a \”blatant shill for the environmental movement.\”
\”For obvious reasons Wal-Mart is an unusually influential corporation. And starting two, three years ago Wal-Mart started to aggressively support a variety of liberal causes, especially the environment,\” he said.
\”They have completely got on board the global warming band wagon,\” Carlisle added. \”It is scientifically dubious that global warming is even occurring, but as far as Lee Scott, the CEO, is concerned it is a done deal.\”
In October 2005, Scott said Wal-Mart\’s goals were to solely use renewable energy, to create zero waste materials, and to sell environmentally friendly products that sustain natural resources.
\”What is especially disturbing is that Wal-Mart is pressuring its vast army of 50,000 suppliers to adhere to its environmental mandates,\” Carlisle said. \”This could have some very negative ramifications for many businesses. Many large businesses can adhere to environmental mandates, but many small- and medium-sized businesses cannot.\”
Carlisle said he did not believe the leftward shift signaled a change in the company\’s principles.
\”This is not about principles, it is about trying to silence some of the left-wing criticism [directed at] the company,\” Carlisle said. \”They\’ve been on the defensive for three or four years for alleged labor malpractices.\”
\”I think it\’s going to fail,\” he said of the tactic. \”Wal-Mart is not going to be able to pry the environmentalists away from the labor unions, which is what they are trying to do — isolate the unions.\”
Joy Bernstein, press secretary for Wal-Mart Watch, one of the groups whose goal is to force Wal-Mart to unionize, had a different view:
\”We believe Wal-Mart is trying, through marketing, to bring a different demographic to shop at their stores because they are faced with declining sales and weakened stock,\” she told Cybercast News Service.
\”While we applaud their environmental promises, we believe they would be better served by treating their workers with respect, paying them a living wage, and offering them affordable healthcare.\”
\”To be quite honest, if they were trying to appeal to the left — truly appeal to the left — they would be changing their policies,\” she said.
\”Their promises don\’t mean anything to anyone. If Wal-Mart truly wanted to appeal to the left they would treat their workers better.\”
Wal-Mart did not respond to multiple invitations to react to the report.
go no further than White Castle; first Walmart, next White Castle. It\’s simple; first, they take all those street corners where the corner drugstore used to be; talk about messing with community! Then they\’re open all nite, attracting all kinds of vagrants, many of whom shop at Wal-Mart based upon their dress; what happens when the two of these team up! No benefits or health insurance for anyone, and everyone will have 24 hour workweeks…I bet they are getting secret life insurance policies on customers; first they clog their arteries, then they cash in!
More than 80 years.
More than 380 restaurants.
More than 500,000,000 burgers sold last year alone.
But when you add it up, the by-the-numbers White Castle math just can\’t compare to the steam-grilled science of creating that signature Slyder.® Or the consistent history of high quality and great taste that turned fast food into big business and jumpstarted the nation\’s first hamburger century. (Well, almost a century: meat rationing during World War II forced us to sell hot dogs and eggs.) Or, most of all, the shared secret language of committed Cravers across the country, the words and senses that turn all of you into One of Ours.
Still, math is pretty fundamental. Mostly because, in White Castle mathematics (crunched at our Columbus, Ohio, headquarters), the number one keeps popping up.
First fast-food hamburger chain ever. First industrial-strength spatula. First mass-produced paper hat. First to sell a million hamburgers. First to sell a billion hamburgers. First frozen fast food for sale.
All of which, of course, makes us your number one. Hold your applause for your next burgers.
You\’re a looney.
Lost track of the overall counts of media moguls \’insults\’…I believe the gist is we who support Wal-Mart do it because we\’re in Iraq for oil and W drives a hummer with wood dash inserts that come from slave labor camps in central America because we can\’t think outside of the box and we\’d only get a C- from Milton Friedman if we were in his class. Whew! I\’m frank aquiver with the embarrassment I have suffered at media\’s insults. Perhaps someday I\’ll typecast everyone who likes or dislikes a court decision against Wal-Mart as well as Media Mogul, but keep in mind, I didn\’t have the benefit of Media\’s top flight education. Please pity me and the rest of us who do not know what we do not know. In the meantime, I\’ll continue to support the retail outlets who give me the best value. That, or I\’ll trade in my Hummer and buy a new Studebaker or Oldsmobile as soon as possible.
I\’ve never met anyone like him, fortunately. Aside from avoiding the issues raised and calling names like a child, he is only regurgitating moveon.org drivel written by tinfoil-hat whackos who think Karl Rove is hiding under the bed.
Great job media mogul. Keep up the great work. People like sam and chad are sad and remind me of childhood school yard bullies. They were the only name callers on the messages. Love it when a Court comes to some decision they (sam, chad, et al.) do not like the judge is immediately labeled \”liberal\” or \”activist\”, talk about your name calling. In regards to WM, never been in one and will never go in one. S&C, hope you kids grow up and take your blinders off as this is really a big world you may even learn that the world is not flat.
Yes indeed. Once the insults come out and reason leaves, you have neo-con parrots involved. Hardly worth the time to respond to uneducated, childish rants. Does momma know you guys are using the computer today?
The REAL issue was a tax dodge used to enrich the company in a really sleazy way. \”Key man\” has been around for a long long time and is very much a valid, insurable risk. Buying life insurance on your cashiers is just sick.
Adjuster-
I\’m not being a smart-***- I really want to know- how is what WM did a tax dodge? And why was taking out insurance on cashiers ruled reprehensible?