Interesting article re Wal Mart

Interesting article at www.inthesetimes.com about the neo-cons Waltons and their plans for the country.

I hope many read it. Thanks for posting this. :hi:

Julie

An Empire Built on Bargains Remakes the Working World
By Abigail Goldman and Nancy Cleeland
Wal-Mart is so powerful that it moves the economies of entire countries, bringing profit and pain. The prices can't be beat, but the wages can.

Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt
By Nancy Cleeland, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall
Wal-Mart, once a believer in buying American, extracts ever lower prices from 10,000 suppliers worldwide. Workers struggle to keep pace.

Grocery Unions Battle to Stop Invasion of the Giant Stores
By Nancy Cleeland and Abigail Goldman
Wal-Mart plans to open 40 of its nonunion Supercenters in California. Labor is fighting the expected onslaught, but the big retailer rarely concedes defeat.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-walmart-pulitzer,1,2534607.htmlstory?coll=la-home-headlines

These Walton offspring are evil bastards. They already have all the money and now they want to manipulate the social fabric more to their liking. Why is it they are incapable of giving anything back to a world they inherited.

BTW, thanks for posting this, it just steels my resolve to boycott them and resist in whatever little way I can

on their stock dividends and in inheritance taxes, so they can pass an obscene amount of wealth down to a future generation of Waltons. Remember bush wanted to ELIMINATE the dividends tax, and had to "settle" for reducing it to 15%. According to this article, "Five heirs of the Wal-Mart fortune would have saved a combined $984 million in taxes last year had dividends been tax-free to shareholders."

http://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0301/09/a05-55988.htm