Worst Company in America: Wal-Mart Makes the Final Four

Why does some people talk trast about walmart. i worked there 13 years and they were nice to me and they have best insurance around.

There really is no ‘maxine’ in AR, I just made her up. Walmart sucks big time on healthcare and everybody knows it except my imaginary ‘maxine’ in AR. Walmart also needs to look like they care for employment of the illiterate poor so I added that in.

Toodles.

“bbrd”, or should I say SVD?

...whatever!

Walmart may not be the worst company in America but it must be one of them. Why would anyone think Walmart has good insurance? Why did you make up maxine? Who is SVD?

Walt Montelongo,

“Why did you make up maxine?

First, bbrd didn’t make up maxine, SDV just pretended he did, because he didn’t like the fact that someone may work at Wal-Mart and not hate them!!

“Who is SVD?”

SDV, is a poster who calls himself SanDiegoView and likes to post under various names!!  He also, likes to pretend to be others and post the opposite of what the real person would say, to make them look bad!!  You can usually tell his posts, by the comment after the ‘in’, example “in shills, frauds and trolls Dept.”!!

Wal-Mart / Edelman, Part Two: Will the Real Bloggers Please Stand Up?

O’Dwyer’s has more revelations about the multifaceted fakery engaged in by Wal-Mart and its PR firm, Edelman. Edelman staffers have been posing as “grassroots” bloggers on two Wal-Mart websites, for the Working Families for Wal-Mart front group and paidcritics....

The paid bloggers are Edelman’s Miranda Gill, Brian McNeill and Kate Marshall.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/5317

“In terms of PR strategies, Rubel last year told BusinessWeek that the first job for companies is to monitor the blogs to see what people are saying about them. The next step is to think of damage-control strategies. And when blogs attack, he says companies have to learn to track what blogs are talking about, pinpoint influential bloggers, and figure out how to...”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15319926/

What delightful people.

The New Yorker article is great, with far too many interesting revelations to summarize here. We will say, however, that we love Edelman’s response to the “Walmarting Across America” scandal in which the sister of an Edelman exec was paid to travel the country in an RV and write “a blog” about the happy Walmart workers she encountered:

When I asked Richard Edelman, the company’s chairman, about this rather blatant example of Astroturfing, he said, of Working Families for Wal-Mart, “I do believe that it is a real group of real people, as far as I know.
—MEGHANN MARCO

http://consumerist.com/consumer/walmart/spinning-walmart-astroturfing-edelman-and-why-walmarts-tvs-are-tuned-to-fox-news-247475.php

Since RDS, bbrd, mary, Dave, Tim, and even matthew vantress and all the other fraudulent internet identities from the ‘war room’ claim that ‘none’ of you are paid, I feel just terrible that all of you are being cheated out of life as fervent, dedicated, strange and random members of the WalMart business model defense and propaganda cult. Surely you have something better to do.

WalMart/Edelman identity frauds- We are merely associated by chance as a collection of ‘love of money’ psychopaths and propagandists.

Listen to RDS, Montelongo!

You don’t have the problem of “others making you look bad” RDS, you’re doing a great job all by yourself!

I feel just terrible that all of you are being cheated...

What I find hilarious is these are the very people that extol the virtues of a free market. Maybe they are all altruists?

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Chin up, Wal-Mart. Rest easy knowing the Anti Wal-Mart Movement is doing everything it can to see that you become Numero Uno--the Worst of the Worst!

“Surely you have something better to do.”

I can’t speak for any of the others, but in RDS’ case… he clearly doesn’t have much else going in his life other than defending the WORST company in the world, attacking anything associated with unions, and making specious aguments in defense of “free trade,” “free enterpise,” “the global economy” and unfettered capitalism.

In RDS’ cockamamie world, it’s OK for oil traders and market speculators to make tons of money at the expense of the rest of us, not to mention at the expense of the entire U.S. economy.

According to RDS’s spastic views of the economy, it’s all the fault of those greedy union pilots and union flight attendants, that a once proud and well respected airline like Midwest Airlines is on the verge of Chapter 11.

With RDS’ keen selective perception, he dismisses the fact that these pilots now making around $120,000 per year, may have their job titles reclassified and their salaries “adjusted” to $35,000 per year.  The flight attendants, who by the way start at just over $6.50 an hour (shocking I know!), and are still working under the concessions they had to give up in 2003 will be worse off, as almost 50% may be losing their jobs due to “restructuring.”

In the meantime, there are no comments from the MidWest Airlines CEO how much he’ll be reducing his salary by or how much stock he’ll be giving up. 

This is all further evidence of America’s slip down the slope in that great “Race to the Bottom.”

But there’s hope!  All of the affected flight attendants and pilots can “Save More and Live Better” by shopping at Wal-Mart!

The Times (U.K.) June 28, 2008

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP return to Iraq
Analysts dampen hopes of economic recovery---James Hider in Baghdad ~~~~~~~~~~~
It was meant to be the rising tide that would lift the Iraqi economy out of years of war and sanctions, to finance reconstruction and guarantee cheap global supplies.

Yet, five years on, big oil is only just starting to move cautiously into Iraq and, despite record prices, experts caution against another false dawn of optimism. Four oil giants - Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP - are to announce next week no-bid contracts to start servicing the creaking Iraqi oil infrastructure, crippled for decades by lack of investment and often targeted by insurgents.

However, the oil contracts are unusual for such big players in that they are only short-term service agreements, with the giants forgoing grander production-sharing deals in the hope of getting a foot in the door when the Government signs a hydrocarbon law that has been under heated debate in Parliament for years.
“I think it’s an important step in the right direction but I don’t think it’s significant,” Wayne Kelley, a Texas oil engineer with RSK Energy consultants, said. “It’s totally insignificant in the global oil market.”

In Washington a group of Democrats in Congress have given warning that the no-bid contracts could stir up fresh anti-US sentiment and reinforce the perception that the war was about oil.

“This for sure will create problems,” Nabil Salim, a political scientist at Baghdad University, said. “Especially when everyone believes the oil and gas law is actually supposed to be passed under pressure from the US.”

Oil companies could form a beachhead for investment, especially in Basra, where 85 per cent of the country’s oil wealth lies.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“that a once proud and well respected airline like Midwest Airlines....The flight attendants, who by the way start at just over $6.50 an hour (shocking I know!)”

So, if Wal-Mart pays a cart pusher just over $6.50 an hour to start, they are “EVIL”, but, if Midwest Airlines, pays it’s UNIONIZED flight attendants just over $6.50 an hour to start, they are “Proud and Respected”!!  Seems the only difference here, is one is unionized and the other is not!!  Therefore, the inference is, that union jobs are ‘proud and respected’, while non-union jobs are ‘evil’!!

And, why the difference between pilots making $120,000.00 a year and flight attendants making $6.50 an hour, shouldn’t they all be making about the same “Living Wage”, under your theory?  Aren’t those pilots being ‘greedy’ at the expense of the flight attendants?

“he dismisses the fact that these pilots now making around $120,000 per year, may have their job titles reclassified and their salaries “adjusted” to $35,000 per year.”

But, how can that happen?  Doesn’t being unionized mean that you will automatically earn MORE, not LESS?

There go those goal posts again...Rds, you are incorrigible, even among right wing-nuts.

This dialogue began when you asked for an example of any union workers who were giving salary concessions to keep their company viable. I tossed out pilots and now you’re back-peddling, as usual. Now you’re using the fact pilots have made these concession as a union weakness.

Bravo! You elevate spinning bullshit to a new level.

Ken V: Perhaps RDS has a heretofore unsuspected value,especially in today’s energy strapped economy. If he can turn over that big a load of methane and spin it so quickly-on that regular a basis-we need to patent him as an alternative energy source!

First, bbrd didn’t make up maxine, SDV just pretended he did...

Thanks for the props, RDS—good to see some people still know how to slice through the B.S., around here.

You can usually tell his posts, by the comment after the ‘in’, example “in shills, frauds and trolls Dept.”!!

And Mr. Screwed had the nerve to call you a “Really Dumb Shit” - tsk, tsk...he must be more ignorant about things than I originally thought…

Speaking of pieces of shit...no, I’m not talking about SVD --yet…

The paid bloggers are Edelman’s Miranda Gill, Brian McNeill and Kate Marshall.

Even the so-called “Center for Media and Democracy” couldn’t get the names right!

Since RDS, bbrd, mary, Dave, Tim, and even matthew vantress and all the other fraudulent internet identities from the ‘war room’...

In case you haven’t read The New York Times, lately, the “war room” has been closed for awhile—what’s your excuse?

Good to see that little has changed since our recent wave of “special guests"…

The paid bloggers are Edelman’s Miranda Gill, Brian McNeill and Kate Marshall.

Even the so-called “Center for Media and Democracy” couldn’t get the names right! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~How do you know the “Center for Media and Democracy"got the names wrong?

Wal-mart is one of the worst corporations in the world. Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of having been on their board of directors for 6 years.

“You elevate spinning bullshit to a new level.”

Bravo, Ken!  I couldn’t agree with you more when it comes to RDS.

We better stop picking on RDS for awhile and pay more attention to bbrd.  I think the spineless little ant is starting to feel a little envious and neglected.  OK bbrd...maybe you can provide us with the definition of a “corporate citizen” as it’s defined in the U.S. Constitution.  RDS and “Constitutionalist” haven’t been able to do it yet.

“Doesn’t being unionized mean that you will automatically earn MORE, not LESS?” RDS

As usual RDS, you’re about 3-4 decades behind the times.  Your statement would be very true if this were the year 1964 BWM (Before Wal-Mart)

How do you know the “Center for Media and Democracy"got the names wrong?

Obviously, I’m more knowlegeable on the subject matter than you and your “multiple squigglies”, my dear—it’s out there—you have to do more than “just Google”.

I think the spineless little ant is starting to feel a little envious and neglected.

And you, sir, are little more than a washed-up middle-aged has-been who is still trying to make his mark in the world.

...maybe you can provide us with the definition of a “corporate citizen” as it’s defined in the U.S. Constitution...

Funny—I didn’t realize corporations even existed when the Constitution was written.

“Funny—I didn’t realize corporations even existed when the Constitution was written.”

bbrd in
Saturday, June 28 at 08:15 PM

Harvard College (a component of Harvard University), formally the President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as the Harvard Corporation), is the oldest corporation in the western hemisphere. Founded in 1636, the second of Harvard’s two governing boards was incorporated by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in 1650. Significantly, Massachusetts itself was a corporate colony at that time – owned and operated by the Massachusetts Bay Company (until it lost its charter in 1684) - so Harvard College is a corporation created by a corporation.
(Wikipedia)

Wisdom begins with knowing what you don’t know bbrd. ‘How’ do you know that the names are not accurate… is a challenge for you to provide documented fact, not merely your imbecilic claims like you were vantress. This is a basic problem with you WalMart/Edelman ‘war room’ frauds, you never back up anything with sources, documentation, studies, references cited etc.

As for your ‘maxine’ creation…

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
Adolf Hitler

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” ~~~~~~~~~~"Save More. Live Better” comes to mind........

“I can’t speak for any of the others, but in RDS’ case… he clearly doesn’t have much else going in his life other than defending the WORST company in the world, attacking anything associated with unions, and making specious aguments in defense of “free trade,” “free enterpise,” “the global economy” and unfettered capitalism.”

And, ‘you’ clearly don’t have much else going in your life other than attacking Wal-Mart, and defending anything associated with unions, and making disparaging remarks about “free trade,” “free enterpise,” “the global economy” and “capitalism”, the things that once made this country the greatest country on the planet!!

Some on here, have said that I should move into the 21st century, when are you going to!!

BTW:  If you read my posts with an open mind, you would see, that I’m not defending Wal-Mart, but ‘capitalism’ in general and I’m not attacking unions, only the ones that try ‘forcing’ themselves on people, who don’t ask them to!!

“As usual RDS, you’re about 3-4 decades behind the times.  Your statement would be very true if this were the year 1964”

Better tell this to Alex in Ontario, he is the one who says that if Wal-Mart workers would join the union, they would automatically make more money and get better benefits!!  And, thanks for acknowledging that unions haven’t been effective since 1964!!

Golly RDS, you make it sound as if WalMart will allow a union!!

You are not defending capitalism RDS. You do not understand what capitalism is. You are defending the claim as a right to abusive behavior in business practice and a libertarian denial of human nature.

“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.”
Adolf Hitler

So Who’s Living in the Past, “Mr. Twister?”

<i>"that once made this country the greatest country on the planet!!"</b>

What’s that?  Was that a nod from RDS?  Is America getting its ass kicked around the globe, economically and otherwise?  So we were “once” the greatest country on the planet?

Welcome to the 21st Century and the “Race to the Bottom,” RDS!

Wal-Mart, Tyson Oppose Injured Officer’s Claim
Last updated Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:59 PM CDT in News
By John Lyon
The Morning News
Email this story Print this story Comment on this story LITTLE ROCK - Former Pine Bluff police officer Jimmy Singleton was patting down a suspect on March 1, 2003, when the man stuck a gun in his stomach.

Singleton received a gunshot wound to his left ankle and a blow to the head that knocked him unconscious in the ensuing struggle. He says he sustained neurological damage that affected his thinking and that he walks with a limp because of bullet fragments.

“If I stand on my foot too long my foot will swell up,” Singleton said. “I can’t stand loud noises and bright lights. I get migraine headaches all the time.”

For the past five years, Singleton, 43, has been fighting a court battle to obtain disability benefits. It’s a fight that has pitted him against some unexpected opponents, including Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Springdale-based Tyson Foods Inc.

Singleton was puzzled when the world’s largest retailer and the world’s largest meat processor, along with the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce and two other employers’ associations, tendered friend-of-the-court briefs with the state Supreme Court this month arguing his claim should be denied.

“That just blows me out of the water,” he said. “I have no clue. My attorney told me, and I couldn’t understand it. I don’t know why they’re getting involved.”

Fort Smith lawyer E. Diane Graham, who is representing Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and the Arkansas Self-Insured Association in the matter, said the scope of the case goes beyond Singleton and his former employer.

“I think it’s an issue that’s of interest to employers, period,” she said.

Since Singleton first filed his claim for benefits, the state Worker’s Compensation Commission has twice voted to deny it. The commission said there was no objective evidence showing that Singleton sustained permanent physical impairment.

Singleton’s attorney, Kenneth Harper of Monticello, said he wasn’t sure how the commission could say that about Singleton’s ankle injury.

“He’s got a bullet in the dad-gum thing,” Harper said. “That’s pretty objective to me.”

The state Court of Appeals has reversed both of the commission’s rulings against Singleton, finding that the commission wrongly excluded some evidence from consideration.

“The claimant’s allegations of a foot injury affecting his mobility are quite clearly supported by observed bullet fragments embedded in his foot,” the court said in its first opinion in the case.

After the commission denied Singleton’s claim a second time, the Court of Appeals said in a strongly worded opinion that the commission could not usurp the judiciary’s function in interpreting state law.

“Should the commission, on remand, again refuse to comply with our mandate, recourse may be had to enforcement by the Arkansas Supreme Court,” the appeals court said.

On June 12, the city of Pine Bluff petitioned the state’s highest court to review the case and overturn the Court of Appeals’ rulings.

Four days later, lawyers for Wal-Mart, Tyson, the Arkansas Self-Insured Association, the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Independent Industries tendered two friend-of-the-court briefs also asking the state Supreme Court to reverse the lower court’s rulings.

“Now we’re going from the legal realm and we’re moving into the political realm,” Harper said. “Somebody is wanting to assert some influence.”.................(Continued)

(Continued)......Graham declined to discuss specifics of the case, but she said in her brief that her clients have an interest in the matter because the case presents the very important issue of preserving the fact-finding and rule-making authority of the state Worker’s Compensation Commission.

Graham said the commission acted within its authority when it gave more weight to the testimony of doctors who said Singleton sustained no permanent impairment than to the testimony of a doctor who said there was impairment.

“Although the Arkansas appellate courts certainly have the authority to conduct judicial review, that authority does not extend to allow a review process which would substitute fact-finding decisions of the appellate courts for the decisions of the commission,” Graham argued in the brief.

Harper said the “big boys” are interested in the case because they fear the Court of Appeals’ rulings will set a precedent that will allow more people to collect on disability claims.

Meanwhile, Harper said, Singleton has yet to receive disability benefits more than five years after he was injured while serving the public.

“I really think it’s just an ugly situation,” he said.

Now retired, Singleton - who served as McGehee police chief from 1993 to 1999 - said he does receive retirement benefits, but that they don’t go far in today’s economy. He said he does not understand why so many people object to him receiving benefits for his disability.

“I was a chief of police, and I never treated anybody like this,” he said.

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Friday, June 27, 2008:

This week on Exposé: a new episode online and on Bill Moyers Journal. The numbers coming out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics say the poultry industry’s safety record has improved over the last decade. But are those numbers right? Reporters from The Charlotte Observer asked labor attorneys, experts in workplace safety, regulators, doctors, and over 200 poultry workers. They analyzed thousands of pages of documents, including Occupational Safety & Health Administration records, company injury logs, and academic studies. The result? Their investigative series, “The Cruelest Cuts,” shows why the poultry industry is not as safe as it claims to be. Congress took note, with the Senate holding two hearings in April. And just last week, the House Committee on Education and Labor started asking some questions of its own.

Read The Observer’s original 6-part series and follow the ongoing coverage. Watch last week’s House hearing on the “hidden tragedy” of workplace injuries. . Ask the reporters about their investigation by submitting questions to the Blog on the Bill Moyers Journal site. And learn about musculoskeletal disorders—the most common work-related injuries among poultry workers.~~~~~~~~Note:Go to Bill Moyers Journal website and link on to these powerful stories .I watched this Expose story on his PBS show Friday night. The Charlotte Observer’s reporters did yeoman’s work for this story. The inhumanity visited upon these poultry processing workers to avoid paying worker’s comp is equal with the most primitive of third world countries. This is a must see,folks.Truly indefensible.in the USA!

BTW: For purposes of clarity, the Moyers program did not include Tyson .

SDV,

You sure like to quote ‘Adolf Hitler’ a lot, is he your idol?

How convenient and typical of you RDS to miss the point again as a libertarian moral relativist…

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
George Santayana


Studying history is necessary to avoid repeating past mistakes. This saying comes from the writings of George Santayana, a Spanish-born American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

“Unless the people, through united action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish ambitions.”
-Calvin Coolidge October 1932~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SDV,

“Studying history is necessary to avoid repeating past mistakes.”

But, you need to study ALL of the past, not just what fits your view of things!!

Remember things like, “The Cold War”, ‘The double digit inflation and interest rates of the 1970’s”, “Windfall profit taxes”, “Price and wage controls”, “Fuel shortages”, “Protectionism”, etc., all things being proposed now, to be repeated again if they go forward with them!!

“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

What” fresh hell” is this? RDS quoting FDR? The creator of the “New DEAL” ?

RDS,

“Studying history is necessary to avoid repeating past mistakes.”

But, you need to study ALL of the past, not just what fits your view of things!!

Remember things like, “The Wall Street crash of 1929”, “Union UAW autoworkers building GM and Ford”, “Nixon’s success with Wage and Price Controls”, “$15/barrel oil”, “The Failure of NAFTA”, “Speculators (Hunt brothers) jacking the silver commodities market”, “ENRON”, “The Savings and Loans scandals”, “Iran-Contra”, “SAVAK and the Shah” etc etc...all things now being ignored and repeated with “Investment Banker Bailouts”, “Speculators in housing and the oil commodities market”, “Failed Iraq War and policy”, “Destabilize Iran”, “$142/barrel oil” by Bushco and the conservative corporatism whorehouse of libertarian manifest destiny you attempt to defend.

Keep reading RDS about Franklin D. Roosevelt… you might see the need for him and his 4 time elected administrative policies to constrain abusive capitalistic and corporate practices.

WalMart- America can economically go to hell. We ‘make’ money that way.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)




“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)



“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)




“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country” ~~~~~~~~~~~FDR~~~~~~~~~~~Yes, good choice ,RDS.

For those with a sense of entitlement- (WalMart, Waltons, RDS, bbrd, ‘mary’ and the other ‘war room’ internet frauds) this was rewritten.

PREAMBLE TO THE CORPORATE CONSTITUTION

“We the WalMart/George Bush fanatic and fraud type people of the United States, in an attempt to make money and rip people off, restore some evasion of justice, avoid more investigations, keep our nation on edge deliberately (9/11 on the Bush watch, let us blame Clinton), promote positive jingoistic and ‘love WalMart or else’ behaviors, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty (by shoveling the tax burden onto the lesser taxpayer suckers) to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren (no estate taxes for multi-billionaires), hereby try one more time to cheat and manipulate the common sense guidelines for the terminally indoctrinated, guilt ridden homeless veterans, delusional libertarians, and other Rush Limbaugh bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill O’Reilly.

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car (becaused we totally screwed over the automotive sector and the whole economy for that matter), big screen TV (unless it is tuned to FOX NEWS), or any other form of wealth (it all belongs to WalMart, ExxonMobil etc and the top 1%). More power to you if you can illegally acquire them (Randy Cunningham), but no one is guaranteeing anything including Jack Abramoff.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended unless you object to WalMart anti-unionism indoctrination. This country is based on the illusion of freedom, and that means freedom for the wealthy—not you! You may leave the room to use the john but only if we say it is OK, turn the channel but only to another FOX station, express a different opinion as long as it conforms to the right wing fantasy, etc.; but the world is full of Limbaughs, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III: You do have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful and avoid republican party gatherings; do expect the Bush Tax policies to make you and all your Walton relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to food and housing. WalMart slave wages and Bush inflationary pressures must prevail. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need with corporate subsidies, F-16s, foreign aid subsidized defense contracts, and payment for interventionist wars, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional corporate lobbyists who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional corporate lobbyists. (This one is my pet peeve...get a real job in manufacturing and go to work and produce something....don’t expect everyone else to take care of you!)

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to hope for health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of housing, you probably cannot afford it either.

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people ( WalMart Loss Prevention, Alice Walton driving around in her car, SAVAK, CIA, U.S. military in warfare against unarmed Iraqi civilians, Blackwater, etc etc) . If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don’t be surprised if the rest of us want to see you and your boss fry in the electric chair at Gitmo or Abu Garhib or Japan where you pulled that crap.

ARTICLE VII: You do have the right to the possession of others. Slavery is somewhat acceptable again. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the services of other citizens then you are making WalMart proud, don’t be surprised if the rest of us get together and give you stock options, legal protection, a corporate jet, a yacht with a big screen color TV and a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job. We have the right to export your job from America and make you poor. Some of us sure want you to have 3 low wage jobs to pay your disproportionate share for the ‘Sweet & Low’ Bush tax rates on the unberwealthy, and will gladly help you along in hard times like we usually deny exist, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of living in your car and declaring bankruptcy before we make you and your family WalMart wage slaves. (AMEN!)

ARTICLE IX:
You do not have the right to happiness. This is a basic and irrefutable, accepted fact of working at WalMart. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness and never achieve it in the WalMart wage slave structure, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic ‘right to union representation’ laws created by those of you who were knowledgeable of the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don’t care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from! (This does not apply to imported labor by corporations and contractors to work in the fields, factories or framing homes or voting for right wing Spanish speaking canidates)
(Lastly....)

ARTICLE XI: You do apparently have the right to change our country’s history. Historical revisionism is reserved for the liars and frauds of the far right. Our belief is that this country was founded on the belief in the one true God (MONEY!!). And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any FOX NEWS religion, any FOX NEWS faith, or no CNN NEWS faith at all; with fear of unemployment. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is on our MONEY!! with slavery in our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!

If you can read, share this with a drunken Whitehouse friend. No, you don’t have to, and nothing tragic will befall you if you don’t Mr. Libbey. I just think it’s about time common sense is allowed to get flushed again. Sensible people of the corporate boardrooms speak out because if you do not, who will?

SDV,

“Union UAW autoworkers building GM and Ford”

Gee, I thought William C. Durant build GM and Henry Ford built Ford!!

“Nixon’s success with Wage and Price Controls”

What success was that?

‘The Cost of Living Council took up the job of running the controls. After the initial ninety days, the controls were gradually relaxed and the system seemed to be working. But unemployment was not declining, and the administration launched a more expansionary policy. In the months that followed, inflation began to pick up again in response to a variety of forces—domestic wage-and-price pressures, a synchronized international economic boom, crop failures in the Soviet Union, and increases in the price of oil, even prior to the Arab oil embargo. Nixon, reluctantly reimposed a freeze in June 1973. Government officials were now in the business of setting prices and wages. This time, however, it was apparent that the control system was not working. Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to the market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets. Nixon took some comfort from a side benefit that George Shultz, at the time head of the Office of Management and Budget, identified. “At least,” Shultz told the president, “we have now convinced everyone else of the rightness of our original position, that wage-price controls are not the answer.” Most of the system was finally abolished in April 1974.’

You can’t rewrite history, to fit your warped view!!  As for FDR, what he did was good to get us out of the ‘Depression’, but, continued following of that path, has led to many to todays problems!!

“Gee, I thought William C. Durant build GM and Henry Ford built Ford!!”
RDS in ignorant splendor again-

That is because you are deliberately blind to labor RDS. You think Durant and Ford did all the ‘work’ themselves.

“Nixon’s success with Wage and Price Controls”

“What success was that?”

The documented kind RDS.

“In the early 1970s, inflation had been much higher than in previous decades, getting above 6% briefly in 1970 and persisting above 4% in 1971. U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on August 15, 1971. This was a move widely applauded by the public and some number of (but by no means all) economists. The 90 day freeze was unprecedented in peacetime, but such drastic measures were thought necessary. Also motivating the controls, it should be noted that on the same date that the controls were imposed, 15 August 1971, Nixon also suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold, which was the beginning of the end of the Bretton Woods system of international currency management established after World War II. It was quite well known at the time that this would likely lead to an immediate inflationary impulse (essentially because the subsequent depreciation of the dollar would boost the demand for exports and increase the cost of imports). The controls aimed to stop that impulse. The fact that the election of 1972 was on the horizon likely contributed to both Nixon’s application of controls and his ending of the convertibility of the dollar.

The 90 day freeze became nearly 1,000 days of measures known as Phases One, Two, Three, and Four [1], ending in 1973. In these phases, the controls were applied almost entirely to the biggest corporations and labor unions, which were seen as having price-setting power. With such monopoly power, some economists saw controls as possibly working effectively (though they are usually skeptical on the issue of controls). Because controls of this sort can calm inflationary expectations, this was seen as a serious blow against stagflation.

The controls were abandoned in 1972 (about the same time as the Bretton Woods system was finally abandoned).
Since that time, the U.S. government has not imposed maximum prices on consumer items or labor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_and_price_controls

http://www.econreview.com/events/wageprice1971b.htm

“Nixon’s chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, went in to see the president privately at Camp David the evening before his speech. “The P. was down in his study with the lights off and the fire going in the fireplace, even though it was a hot night out,” Haldeman wrote in his diary. “He was in one of his sort of mystic moods.” Nixon told Haldeman “that this is where he made all his big cogitations.... He said what really matters here is the same thing as did with [Franklin] Roosevelt, we need to raise the spirit of the country; that will be the thrust of the rhetoric of the speech.... We’ve got to change the spirit, and then the economy could take off like hell.” As he worked on the speech, Nixon tormented himself, worrying whether the headlines would read NIXON ACTS BOLDLY or NIXON CHANGES MIND. “Having talked until recently about the evils of wage and price controls,” Nixon later wrote, “I knew I had opened myself to the charge that I had either betrayed my own principles or concealed my real intentions.” But Nixon was nothing if not a practical politician, as he made clear in his masterful explanation of his shift. “Philosophically, however, I was still against wage-price controls, even though I was convinced that the objective reality of the economic situation forced me to impose them.”

“Nixon’s speech—despite the preemption of Bonanza—was a great hit. The public felt that the government was coming to its defense against the price gougers. The international speculators had been dealt a deadly blow. During the next evening’s newscasts, 90 percent of the coverage was devoted to Nixon’s new policy. The coverage was favorable. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered a 32.9-point gain—the largest one-day increase up to then.”

RDS… You want to conveniently forget what and who got the United States into the depression in the first place, part of your ‘play stupid’ libertarian moral relativism.

This was a quote I did not have ddrb-

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country” FDR

WalMart- The poor are nothing more than economic cannon fodder to us.

From “They Live” script: 

“Our impulses are being redirected

We live in an artificially-induced state of consciousness,

The movement began eight months ago

By a group of scientists.

They accidentally discovered these signals being sent. 

The under-class is growing,

Human rights are non-existent.

In their repressive society, we are their unwitting accomplices.

Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.

We have been lulled into a trance,

They have made us indifferent.

We are focused only on our own gain.

They are safe as long as they are not discovered.

That is their method of survival,

Keep us asleep. 

Keep us selfish.

Keep us sedated.

We are their cattle.

We are being bred for slavery.

We cannot break their signal.

The signal must be shut off at the source.

They want benign indifference.

We could be pets or food, but all we really are is livestock

SDV,

“The documented kind RDS.”

“In the early 1970s, inflation had been much higher than in previous decades, getting above 6% briefly in 1970 and persisting above 4% in 1971. U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on August 15, 1971.”

But, what happened after then, in other words, the final result?  By the end of Carter’s term, we faced double digit inflation and Reagan had to fix it and he didn’t use ‘price/wage’ controls to do it, why?, because they don’t work, all it does is DELAY the problems and when lifted, inflation jumps up!!  It’s kind of like a dam, it holds back the water to prevent a flood, but, if you don’t open the gates once in a while, it will overflow and you will still end up with a flood!!  And, if something happens to break the dam, the flood will be worse than it would have been, if the dam had never been built!!  Hence, Carter’s double digit inflation, the oil embargo broke the dam!!

Side note:  Why do you think so many are against McCain’s ‘freeze’ on taxing gas?

who cares rds?you are completely full of shit rds and i ought to know.so shut your piehole you stupid hypocrite loser.