Amen to that brother. Walmart, in my opinion, has done the most damage to this country ever. They've put tons of US factories and small town stores out of business, their workers are paid an average of 20k a year and us taxpayers get stuck subsidizing employee health care, welfare, section 8, etc. Not to mention the class of people that patronize the stores;
From wakeupwalmart.com:
WAKEUPWALMART.COM RELEASES FIRST NATIONAL WAL-MART CRIME STUDY - “IS WAL-MART SAFE?”
ESTIMATES NATIONALLY POLICE MAY HAVE RESPONDED TO NEARLY 1 MILLION POLICE INCIDENTS AT WAL-MART IN 2004
57 COMMUNITY GROUPS SIGN JOINT LETTER CALLING ON WAL-MART TO IMPROVE SECURITY BY MOTHER’S DAY
Washington, DC - Today, WakeUpWalMart.com, America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, released the first national study on Wal-Mart and crime. The study, entitled “Is Wal-Mart Safe?” analyzed the official 2004 police incident reports (i.e. calls for police service) at 551 Wal-Mart store locations. Among the key findings of the study, include:
• In 2004, police received 148,331 calls for service for the 551 Wal-Mart stores analyzed, averaging 269 reported police incidents per store.
• For just the 551 stores sampled, there were 2,909 reported police calls for “violent or serious crimes,” including 4 homicides, 9 rapes or attempts, 23 kidnappings or attempts, 154 sex crimes, 550 robberies or attempts and 1,024 auto thefts.
• Based on the number of reported police incidents for the sample, it is estimated police responded to nearly 1 million police incidents at Wal-Mart in 2004 costing taxpayers $77 million annually.
• Wal-Mart stores have a significantly higher number of reported police incidents than nearby Target stores. For the sample, the average rate of reported police incidents at Wal-Mart stores was 400% higher than the average rate of incidents at nearby Target stores.
Costco on the other hand has way better products, service and quality. Employees are compensated well and paid an average of 42% more than Sam's, their health care is self sustainable and doesn't depend on US taxpayers to foot the bill as much. I personally try to buy American made as much as I can.
And I vote for who I see fit to do the job the best way, fuck party lines. Ford and Costco's business model is way better. And neither one took bailout money. Anyone who supports that shithole Wal-Mart is really just supporting Chinese and Indian factories. Everywhere I look around Philly is abandoned factories and lost jobs, Detroit is a perfect example of a failure. Government subsidies killed that town and it's people because everyone got fat on the tit, same as they're doing now with unemployment.
What's saving Detroit now is American inginuity and innovation at it's finest. The new trucks and cars Ford has rolling out are sick. Even GM has woken and started making cars I'd actually buy, the new 2009 CTS-V is kicking the M5's ass all over the track. Granted they're making a new M series in 2011-2012 but we finally have cars that will go against the Germans.
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