Dick,<br> <br> Thanks for your response. I don't think that Wal-Mart is a liberal or conservative issue so much as it is a class and educated one, however, I am tickled that you share with Mark Solomon, Nils Peterson, and Nick Gier, and Bill London, a common economic ideology. <br> <br> I use to not shop at Wal-Mart at all. I went to Spokane or Pullman to do my shopping when I could not find it elsewhere in Moscow. I believed that Wal-Mart was the devil in the form of retail store. <br> <br> After further research, I have found that much of the information out there is put out by special interests that are losing money to Wal-Mart, like unions and small business owners. <br> <br> The anti-Wal-mart campaigns are now being run by seasoned political operatives, one of them was a campaign manager for Howard Dean. Another anti-Wal Mart group is funded by an organizations that does political campaign strategies for conservative
Republicans, like George W. Bush in 2004, Trent Lott, and Newt Gingrich. This people are skilled and would make you hate your own grandmother after their research was put into action. That is what they do, run campaigns that win. They find things that turn people off about other people and organizations, then lay it on thick. <br> <br> <font face="Arial" size="2">"Wal Mart, and other big corporations, force taxpayers to subsidise their employees through medical insurance, since they do not provide adequate coverage for their employees and do not pay enough to allow them to acquire their own. At the end of every business day, these corporations deposit huge sums of money, extracted from the local economy, into accounts with headquarters overseas, or far from the area, draining money from the local economy that may be better used to promote business locally."<br> <br> I disagree with most of this paragraph. First, taxpayers are not forced to
pay anything for medical insurance, it chooses to do so and under what circumstances. Second, any person who works full-time (32 Hours) at Wal-Mart gets health insurance that wants it. About 50% of workers in the United States don't have health insurance through their employer. More people get off of Medicare and Medicaid by getting a job at Wal-Mart then any other company because they hire people on Medicare and Medicaid, unlike other companies. 3) Wal-Mart does not decide its wages, the free market does. If Wal-Mart paid to much for employees it would go under, if it paid too little, it would not get workers to run the stores. It isn't magic, there are certain set of economic laws that cannot be broken, just like the law of gravity 4) American companies pay through the nose for health insurance for their employees. If low skilled low paid retail workers could afford health insurance, health care costs would simply go up because our health care in this
country is based on supply and demand, not actual costs. Our health care system is so full of fraud, abuse, and corruption it is a wonder it functions at all. I think the primary problem is pharmaceutical and medical supply companies as well as mal-practice lawyers, but there are other reasons too. To make employers continue to pay for the fraud or call them poor employers if they don't, I think is an injustice. <br> <br> Best Regards,<br> <br> Donovan J Arnold<br> </font><br> <br><b><i>rvrcowboy <rvrcowboy@clearwire.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1515" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Donovan,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I sincerely
hope I don't sound too much like a liberal here but I also have problems with Wal Mart. Unlike many, here in the forum, I bear no particular hate for the company but I do question many of their business policies. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I recognize the value of having a large company in the area that will hire many people who would otherwise most likely not be able to get a job. (Please don't construe that to mean I think all Wal Mart employees are incapable of working elsewhere.) Wal Mart provides quality products at a good price and that is hard to argue with. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have problems with all large corporations, with their national, and international, buying power coming into an area and unfairly competing with local businesses who have sacrificed much to build
up their community. This is probably irrational of me since it is the way of the global economy and will likely be the only way business can compete in the future, as big corporations swallow up more and more locals and become more involved in the niche businesses that locals have turned too. It is difficult for me to understand why so many clamor for U. N. control of the world, which will surely lead to an absolute global economy, but protest businesses like Wal Mart. Just doesn't make sense to me.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Wal Mart, and other big corporations, force taxpayers to subsidise their employees through medical insurance, since they do not provide adequate coverage for their employees and do not pay enough to allow them to acquire their own. At the end of every business day, these corporations deposit huge sums of money, extracted from the local
economy, into accounts with headquarters overseas, or far from the area, draining money from the local economy that may be better used to promote business locally. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">There are other reasons why I like/dislike companies like Wal Mart but I am sure they have all been covered here in this forum before, by others who have given much more thought to it than I. I shop at Wal Mart, even though I have my reservations about it. Guess that makes me a hypocrite but I suppose most of those who rail on against them also shop there from time to time.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">It is a tough question and I would probably not protest against Wal Mart in my area but still have to admit I have respect for those who do. In the end, I believe it is a loosing battle since the global
economy is rapidly consuming the retail business from any local control. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Take care..</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dick S</font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust:
none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> <a title="donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 30, 2006 8:28 AM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Most Americans Love Wal-Mart-69%</div> <div><br></div>Taken from Dale Courtney's
Blog: The Right Mind<br><br><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/June%20Dailies/walmart.htm">http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/June%20Dailies/walmart.htm</a><br><br>Here is a fact for naysayers of Wal-Mart to chew on; "Lower and middle income Americans are more likely to have a favorable opinion of Walmart than upper income Americans." <br><br>Best,<br><br>_DJA<br> <div> </div><hr size="1"> Do you Yahoo!?<br>Everyone is raving about the <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handraisers">all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.</a> <div> </div><hr> <div></div>=====================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>
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