[Vision2020] Wal-Mart: Replies to Donovan and Crabtree

[Ted Moffett]

Donovan et. al.

I go out of my way to avoid making an argument regarding Wal-Mart's wages,
pro or con, yet Donovan insists on arguing with me on this point anyway,
even demanding to know where I got information I never presented about
Wal-Mart wages!  This debate style is guaranteed to win!  Just demand info
that someone never presented about arguments they never made, then prove how
wrong they are.

Ted Moffett



>  I don't need to discuss Wal-Mart's wages or medical benefits, or
> connections to exploitation of cheap labor under the rule of the human
> rights denying gulag operating Chinese Communist Party, to make an argument
> questioning Wal-Mart's goals in Moscow, but I find it laughable and sad that
> advocates of free market democratic society think that huge US based
> multinational corporations doing business with human rights denying
> communist dictatorships does not imply a blind spot in applying our values
> to our international policies..
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> Hey, if you can get something going to legally oppose all imported goods
> from sweatshops overseas I am behind you. But it makes no sense to go to
> ShopKo instead of Walmart when the same abusive labor practices are used by
> ShopKo and every other businesses. The first company to stop importing goods
> from overseas sweatshops will no longer be in businesses because they cannot
> sell a VCR for $145 when everyone else is selling it for $45. On the note of
> wages, where do you get your information? Walmart pays more than the average
> wage in Latah County. According to the US Census Bureau the average
> Household income in Latah is $30,000 a year. With 2 workers per household a
> person working at Walmart for $10 an hour for 36 hours a week and if there
> spouse makes $7 an hour at Walmart for 36 hours a week and they have two
> weeks off a year, they would make the average household income of $30,000 a
> year. The average salary at Walmart is $18,000 a year. In Latah, the per
> capital income is $15,000 a year. What is it about a Walmart job that makes
> you think they should get paid more than the average worker in Latah?
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