Illinois Comptroller Calls for Wal-Mart Investigation

A Wal-Mart spokesman said the company received a letter from Thompson last week. “We are studying the letter and will respond appropriately,” he said.

Is this not exactly the same arrogance the Bush crowd said in response to Senate subpoenas yesterday?

This also reminds the observant of other corporate practices and those who implement them-

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

and of course-

‘Corporate psychopaths’ at large

By Lisa Desai for CNN
Friday, September 3, 2004 Posted: 1258 GMT (2058 HKT)
Excerpts include-

According to Professor Robert Hare, an expert in psychopathy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, “corporate psychopaths” are ruthless, manipulative, superficially charming and impulsive—the very traits that are landing them high-powered managerial roles.

“Psychopaths are social predators and like all predators they are looking for feeding grounds,” he said. “Wherever you get power, prestige and money you will find them.”

Paul Farmer, from the mental health charity Rethink, agrees that “corporate psychopaths” pose a major threat to harmonious workplace relations.

“The danger is that they build up a power base and turn everyone in the organization paranoid, everyone becomes afraid of everyone else and the work culture begins to reflect the personality of the leader,” said Farmer.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/08/26/
corporate.psychopaths/index.html

Or try this site-

http://www.snakesinsuits.com/

WalMart- We are not just paranoid and spy on people. We are also ‘love of money psychopaths’ with a business model to prove it.

YES...You Would Be Correct, SDV

The hubris and arrogance of Wal-Mart is very much the same as we see in the Bush administration.

The White House is now claiming “executive priviledge” and is refusing to acknowledge any subpoenas.  I don’t think we’ve seen this since Richard Nixon refused to turn over his tapes.

I think it’s great that one state after another is calmoring to see Wal-Mart’s records and financial filings.

If we can believe Nick, the Beast has nothing to worry about since all of Wal-Mart’s data has been gone over by in-house as well as independent accountants, the IRS, and the SEC.

(If you put your ear to the ground you can hear the numbers <b>((((crunching!)):o)

SanDiegoView,

Regading using of globalization to cheat the poor—I guess you think it’s OK for Royal Dutch Shell, BP, and Total to keep sticking it to the people, huh?

I’ll tell you what, Everyday Low Prices always wins in our town!, you tell me what “town” and I’ll see if I can dig up an instance where it didn’t win.

Ken V,

“I’ll see if I can dig up an instance where it didn’t win.”

That may be hard to do, when you take into account “Matching Competitors Prices”!!

That may be hard to do, when you take into account “Matching Competitors Prices”!!

Maybe not. “Comping” is meaningless when there is no competition left to price match against.