Monday, February 27, 2006

Stay Away From Wal-Mart!


I know it’s hard to avoid sometimes because of the convenience and low, low prices but these guys are really, really bad for the American environment. This is not new but Wal-Mart breeds low wage employees, puts American retailers out of business, and gives very little to the charities they claim (In 2004, cash donations to non-profit organizations by Wal-Mart, its employees, and its customers made through Wal-Mart, the Wal-Mart Foundation and the Sam's Club Foundation totaled more than US$170 million. Big deal!).

I have a hard time feeling sorry for these cocksuckers!

WASHINGTON - Wal-Mart's chief executive told America's governors on Sunday hat he needs their help to make health care more affordable and accessible for the retail giant's 1.3 million U.S. employees because the company can't do it alone.

Boo-hoo, they can’t do it alone… At $11.00 per employee that is only $14 million. If they paid $100 per employee that would only be $130 million. Where is the fucking problem here? They gave away more than that to charity.

Lee Scott said Wal-Mart's health care costs have risen 19 percent in each of the last three years and that it's only a matter of time before it, along with other businesses, cannot sustain rising costs.

NO SHIT ASS-WIPES! Welcome to America! All this wouldn’t be so fucking humiliating if they hadn’t made so much money just last year:

BRIEF: For the nine months ended 31 October 2005, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'s revenues increased 10% to $225.53B. Net income increased 8% to $7.64B.

Most grocery stores are lucky to squeeze out 3% at the end of the year. These greedy Wal-Mart mother-fuckers not only beat down American manufacturers before going to China to buy products cheaper, but they also skimp out when it comes to paying for insurance for all their employees:

According to Wal-Mart's website, Wal-Mart offers benefits to approximately 620,000 of its 1.6 million employees, and there are plans to expand this to one million of its employees. [6]

With the kind of money Wal-Mart deals in they could easily open their own hospital system and put Uncle Sam out of the Health Care industry. Why don’t they do that?

Please do what you can to stay away from these bastards. Please buy online or local when you can. Please take a second to say what you think. Please write a letter to your governor.

Look at me I'm begging here...