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| Originally posted by white rice,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (white rice,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> One way that Wal-Mart is hurting the American public is its reliance on Chinese made products. People assume that the clothes and merchandise are locally produced, but that is definitely not the case. Most of all, if the workers are recieving lower wages and benefits, the return they give back to the local economy is significantly lower while Wal-Mart pockets the profits. Who exactly are you defending here? The stockowners and corporate suits? [/b] |
People assume? Can't they read labels?
It's the Union's hierarchy that is down on Wal-Mart, because they are a non-union entity. Otherwise they couldn't have some of the lowest prices for standard trade goods as anywhere else in this country. And the most ridiculous item of the day (or any time) is that it's the union members who depend on Wal-Mart to save a penny here and a nickel there. Oh, but hurray for unions. Wal-Mart cares more about their workers than any Union ever did.
I believe Wal-Mart participates in charitable contributions in all the areas where they are located. They are a fair employer and unless you've worked for them, how do you know, except from anti-Wal-Mart propaganda, that they are not a good employer?
<!--QuoteBegin-white rice, McDonalds hires around a million employees. Their turnover rate is horrendous but the food they produce is cheap cheap cheap[/quote] McDonald's hires students and senior citizens who are supplementing their income and couldn't work full time anyhow. They are already covered under their parent's health plan (students) or their own or medicare (senior citizens).