[Vision2020] Wal-Mart to Hire up to 150,000

[joekc at adelphia.net]

What Moscow needs is real jobs that offer affordable wages. Not more part-time, minimum wage jobs. Super Wal-Mart is no help in this regard.

It is absurd to suggest that job availability has anything to do with UI’s decreased enrollment. I won’t speculate why UI’s enrollment is down other than to say that well-publicized internal problems at UI as well as the increased quality and popularity of other universities in the state has more to do with it than a lack of part-time jobs in Moscow. There are likely other relevant factors of which I am unaware. (I still think that UI is the best state university in Idaho, by the way!)

Donovan, if you want to suggest that a Super Wal-Mart will actually increase enrollment at UI, I need to see some proof.

--
Joe Campbell

---- Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote: 

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"You're right, Arnold.  New Wal-Mart Super Centers DOES mean more jobs.
  Unfortunately, job seekers would have to move to China to apply." Tom H.
  
  Well, they tried to hire here but the city has a strict policy against  the creation of new jobs. No doubt your next bright idea will be to  oppose Wal_mart making sales overseas and bringing the profits into the  US. 
  
 I also wonder how dumb some of your are going to feel  when instead of having a well controlled green Super Walmart in town  that we can collect taxes on and fund education you instead have one  just outside the boarder, congesting traffic, destroying the  environment, ruining the landscape, sucking up local businesses, and  their ain't a thing you can do about it because it outside the city,  county and state.
  
 Hey folks, let's keep driving down the  student enrollment at UI and population of Latah County by preventing  the creation of jobs and not allowing anything new to be built without  a lawsuit. 
  
  Take Care,
  
  _DJA
  
  

Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:  >From today's (March 21, 2006) Spokesman Review -

You're right, Arnold.  New Wal-Mart Super Centers DOES mean more jobs.
Unfortunately, job seekers would have to move to China to apply.

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Wal-Mart to hire up to 150,000 in China expansion 
Associated Press 
March 21, 2006

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to hire up to 150,000
employees in China over the next five years, five times its current work
force there, as it expands its number of stores, the company said Monday.

Wal-Mart has targeted China, which has long been a major supplier of its
products, as a key region for its international store growth. It now has 56
stores in China with about 30,000 employees and plans to open 20 more stores
this year.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Amy Wyatt declined to say how many stores the
Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer will add longer term. Wal-Mart generally
only makes public projections one year at a time for its new store plans in
the U.S. and internationally.

"We could hire as many as 150,000 (new employees) in the next five years,"
Wyatt said.

The news comes less than a week after Wal-Mart moved to expand in another
fast-growing region, Central America, by taking a majority stake in a
regional retail chain that it first bought into last September. Wal-Mart
took over Central American Retail Holding Co., also known as CARHCO, for an
undisclosed price.

Wal-Mart bought about $18 billion in goods from China in 2004, the last year
for which it has released numbers, Wyatt said.

The region is a key part of Wal-Mart's strategy of growing internationally,
where it is active in 15 countries including China, Japan and Korea in Asia,
Britain and Germany in Europe, Canada, Mexico and eight countries in Latin
America.

Wal-Mart does not provide a country-by-country breakdown of intrnational
financial results. The total international division accounted for about 20
percent of last year's overall net sales of $312.4 billion.

Wal-Mart's international side had more than 450,000 employees last year.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


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And why shouldn't the rich pay taxes?

"The people that write laws are greedy.  They need money to buy votes.  What
better way to get it than to extract it, by force of law, from the
relatively few who can afford the nicer things in life.  If you can buy
something nice then you can pay more taxes so that politicians can give
something to the 'poor' and take a cut for themselves."
 
- Varnel W. (March 20, 2006)

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