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Originally posted by jam321
How is it not helping communities? Does Wal-Mart not collect taxes off their sales?
Originally posted by jam321
But the fact of the matter is that our government has encouraged outsourcing for the longest as they tried to get us educated and prepped up to become a service industry.
You also have the problem of allowing foreign countries to do any kind of business in the US but we are restricted in many business ventures when we go overseas.
During the last 20 years, Wal-Mart has moved into communities and destroyed them, wiping out stores, slashing the tax base, and turning downtown areas into ghost-towns. This is accomplished through Wal-Mart's policy of paying workers below subsistence wages, and importing goods that have been produced under slave-labor conditions overseas. Often, communities will even give Wal-Mart tax incentives, for the right to be destroyed.
Wal-Mart both reflects, and is, a major driving force for America's deadly implementation of the Imperial Rome model. Unable to produce physical goods to sustain its own existence, the United States, like Rome, sucks in imported goods from around the world, using, in this case, a dollar that is over-valued by 50-60%. America has been transformed from a producer to a consumer society. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, through its technologically-advanced manufacturing-agricultural economy, America produced new value that contributed to mankind's advancement. Through a "post-industrial society" policy, the bankers have pushed Wal-Mart to the top of the heap, so that it is now the world's largest corporation, with $245.5 billion in sales last year. Wal-Mart, which produces no value-added whatsoever, dominates the geometry that governs the U.S. consumer society. America consumes goods that others produce, which Wal-Mart markets. Wal-Mart dictates, through its demand for low prices, that its suppliers outsource their production to foreign nations, further ripping down America's battered domestic manufacturing and agricultural capability, in a self-feeding process.
Wal-Mart] kills jobs and downtowns, say critics, and destroys community character. It’s been accused of discriminating against women, using illegal immigrants, requiring work off the clock and being overly aggressive in stopping the formation of labor unions among its workers.
Originally posted by Common Good
reply to post by lucidclouds
"So now lets hate anyone speaking spanish! Maybe after we build a Berlin...I mean a Mexican wall, we can put these spanish speakers in consentration camps. I'm sure that sounds great to you. "
damn Lucid, forget to take your medication today? I know you are a hater, and always been a hater but thats no reason to come in here and start trying to make an ass out of yourself at my expense. You need to get over yourself and the hate you have towards me just cause I dont agree with your insanity. Is this all because I ignored you the other day? boohoo. Get a grip.
I know, lets make a Chinese only speaking wal-mart.
Russian wal mart.
japanese wal mart.
hell, lets justmake a Wal-Mart based on every language.
The reason they are making a spanish only Wal-mart is because of all the illegal immigrants that we have here. If we didnt have so many of them, do you think for one second that these buildings would go up?
Damn get your head out of your ass.
You need to stand up for something once in a while, instead of just sitting back criticizing people who are actually trying to.
[edit on 15-3-2009 by Common Good]
Originally posted by jam321
reply to post by RFBurns
I am with you 100% about walmart practice and I do believe Congress should address the issues we are bringing up.
Here is a thread I did about WalMart back during the election. Wasn't that popular but I tried.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by Common Good
reply to post by lucidclouds
"So now lets hate anyone speaking spanish! Maybe after we build a Berlin...I mean a Mexican wall, we can put these spanish speakers in consentration camps. I'm sure that sounds great to you. "
damn Lucid, forget to take your medication today? I know you are a hater, and always been a hater but thats no reason to come in here and start trying to make an ass out of yourself at my expense. You need to get over yourself and the hate you have towards me just cause I dont agree with your insanity. Is this all because I ignored you the other day? boohoo. Get a grip.
I know, lets make a Chinese only speaking wal-mart.
Russian wal mart.
japanese wal mart.
hell, lets justmake a Wal-Mart based on every language.
The reason they are making a spanish only Wal-mart is because of all the illegal immigrants that we have here. If we didnt have so many of them, do you think for one second that these buildings would go up?
Damn get your head out of your ass.
You need to stand up for something once in a while, instead of just sitting back criticizing people who are actually trying to.
[edit on 15-3-2009 by Common Good]