<DIV>being a current associate i have never seen this option or heard of it? if this is an option for associates and so much was raised wouldnt you think that i would have been told about this option?</DIV>
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<DIV>Robbie<BR><BR><B><I>Andreas Schou <ophite@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">> Thank you, Ms. Gray. I was unaware of these contributions made on behalf of<BR>> Wal-Mart. It is nice to know that such a large retail chain (as Wal-Mart)<BR>> has the heart to become a contributing member of our community.<BR><BR>Wal-Mart's philanthropic branch is called the Wal-Mart Foundation.<BR>>From the name, one would think it was set up by Sam Walton and funded<BR>by donations by Wal-Mart, Inc. and the Walton family. You would be<BR>wrong.<BR><BR>The Wal-Mart Foundation, the largest corporate philanthropic<BR>foundation in America, disburses $190 million per year, but is not<BR>largely funded by Wal-Mart, Inc. Instead, it is instead funded by the<BR>people who can least afford to give: Wal-Mart associates themselves.<BR>Each year, associates get the option to take a payroll deduction to<BR>donate to the Wal-Mart foundation. Wal-Mart gets the PR boost.
Its<BR>employees continue to get the shaft.<BR><BR>Even if it were actualy Wal-Mart donating to the Wal-Mart Foundation,<BR>$190 million doesn't even come close to the two billion dollars that<BR>Wal-Mart costs American taxpayers every year. According to this study<BR>by Arindrajit Dube of the UC Berkeley Institute of Industrial<BR>Relations, each employee of Wal-Mart costs its state $1,952 every year<BR>in public assistance. Multiply that by the over one million employees<BR>that Wal-Mart has nationwide, and you come to a staggering public cost<BR>of over two billion dollars per year. The cost to Sojourners' is just<BR>a microcosm of the cost to everyone -- including you..<BR><BR>This, of course, doesn't include the direct tax subsidies to local<BR>Wal-Marts as communities vie to have the Wal-Mart albatross hung<BR>around their neck. Their employees' widows' mites do a lot of good --<BR>but it's just a drop in the bucket compared to the irreparable harm<BR>they're doing to
communities across the United States.<BR><BR>-- ACS<BR><BR>_____________________________________________________<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="comic sans ms">Robbie E. K. Storla</FONT></DIV>
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