WalMart-The High Cost of Low Price PART 3

[carnut476]

Start your own damn Walmart

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The Government should be forcing walmart because Walmart is a friggin DEADBEAT DAD....IT DOES NOT support their employees then they lie at meetings saying their crushing their competition. NOT TRUE...they are crushing their own people!!!

[Freedan111]

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Support their employees? Are you fucking stupid? Wal-Mart is a business, buisness are in it to make MONEY. Y It's not a charity. If you can't live off of working for Wal-Mart, then get a better job. Don't blame Wal-Mart because you are to fucking stupid to take care of yourself.

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that's a known fact YOUR CITY WILL PAY MORE MONEY TO KEEP WALMART MAKING BILLIONS because Walmart employees cannot afford to live without welfare benefits. Walmart is illegal....it is economic treason what Walmart is doing.

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The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G. Farben),

> a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving loans from American

> bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the huge I.G. Farben cartel.

> In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers)

> merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were

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> more than a hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and

> co-operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America

> were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on

> it’s board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company,

> Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller’s National City Bank of New

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> York, Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg,

> Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of

> Germany’s War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan,

> controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of which

> were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their crimes against

> humanity.

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In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the American Aluminum Company

> (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride, and the Dow

> Chemical Company transferred its technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg,

> Dupont and many other companies eventually signed cartel agreements with

> I.G. Farben, creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed “the fluoride

> mafia”(Stephen 1995).

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> At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a

> research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to

> take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German

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> chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and

> had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained

> of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the

> mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in

> German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners “stupid and

> docile”(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to

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> fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation

> caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more

> difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the

> individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of

> the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in

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twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising

> that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical

> means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring

> techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated

> in the Rockerfeller Report,

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a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, “the

> drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means

> of controlling human behavior”(Stephen 1995).

>

> The ‘dental caries prevention myth’ associated with fluoride, originated in

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> the United States in 1939, when a scientist named Gerald J. Cox, employed by

> ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic fluoride waste and at the time being

> threatened by fluoride damage claims, fluoridated some lab rats, concluded

> that fluoride reduced cavities and claimed that it should be added to the

> nation’s water supplies. In 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer,

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> was appointed head of the Federal Security Agency , a position that placed

> him in charge of the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the next three years,

> eighty-seven new American cities began fluoridating their water, including

> the control city in a water fluoridation study in Michigan, thus eliminating

> the most scientifically objective test of safety and benefit before it was

> ever completed.

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> American ‘education and research’ was funded by the Aluminum Manufacturing,

> Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet for the increasingly

> mounting fluoride industrial waste while attaining positive profit increase.

> The ‘discovery’ that fluoride benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that

> needed to be able to defend “

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Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes of

> explosives, fertilizers and other ‘necessities’, was expensive to dispose of

> properly and until a ‘use’ was found for it in America’s water supplies, the

> substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous waste. Through sly public

> re-education, fluoride, once a waste product, became the active ingredient

> in fluorinated pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics,

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> tranquilizers, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and

> domestic products, fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride

> is so much a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical

> income, that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is

> financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially devastating for

> their career and reputation.

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> Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public acceptance of

> fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of PR, or the original

> spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to persuade public opinion.

> Barnays explained “you can get practically any idea accepted if doctors are

> in favour.

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The public is willing to accept it because a doctor is an

> authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows or doesn’t

> know”(Bryson 2004). Doctors who endorsed fluoridation didn’t know that

> research discrediting fluoride’s safety was either suppressed or not

> conducted in the first place. Fluoride became equated with scientific

> progress and since it was introduced to the public as a health-enhancing

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substance, added to the environment for the children’s sake, those opposing

> fluoride were dismissed as cranks, quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became

> impervious to criticism because of a relentless PR offensive, but also

> because of it’s overall toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature

> effect, fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so

> it’s effects are more difficult to diagnose.

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> Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan Project, shows

> how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb production and millions of

> tonnes of it were needed for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and

> plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning, emerged as the

> leading chemical health hazard for both workers and nearby communities.

> A-bomb scientists were ordered to provide evidence useful for defense in

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litigation, so they began secretly testing fluoride on unsuspecting hospital

> patients and indignant, mentally retarded children.. “The August 1948

> Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse

> effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for

> reasons of “national security” (Griffiths 1998). The only report released

> stated that fluoride was safe for humans in small doses.

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> During the Cold War, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the toxicologist for

> the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading scientific promoter of water

> fluoridation. While Dr. Hodge was reassuring congress of the safety of water

> fluoridation,

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he was covertly conducting one of the nation’s first public

> water fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying

> biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at the

> University of Rochester. Since there are no legal constraints against the

> suppression of scientific data, the only published conclusion resulting from

> these experiments was that fluoride was safe in low doses,

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a profoundly

> helpful verdict for the US Military who feared lawsuits for fluoride injury

> from workers in nuclear power plants and munitions factories. Fluoride

> pollution was one of the biggest legal worries facing key US industrial

> sectors during the cold war. A secret group of corporate attorneys, known as

> the Fluorine Lawyers Committee, whose members included US Steel, ALCOA,

> Kaiser Aluminum,

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and Reynolds Metals, commissioned research at the Kettering

> Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati to “provide ammunition”(Bryson

> 2004) for those corporations who were fighting a wave of citizen claims for

> fluoride injury. The Fluorine Lawyers Committee and their medical

> ambassadors were in personal and frequent contact with the senior officials

> of the federal National Institute for Dental Research,

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and have been implied

> in the ‘burying’ of the forty year old Kettering study, which showed that

> fluoride poisoned the lungs and lymph nodes in laboratory animals. Private

> interests, sought to destroy careers and censor information by ensuring that

> scientific studies raising doubts about the safety of fluoride never got

> funded, and if they did, never got published.

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> During the 1990’s, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist Phillis

> Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower IQ’s, and produced

> symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention deficit and hyperactivity

> disorder (ADHD).

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Just days before her research was accepted for publication,

> Mullenix was fired as the head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in

> Boston. Then her application for a grant to continue her fluoride and

> central nervous system research was turned down by the US National Institute

> of Health (NIH), when an NIH panel told her that “fluoride does not have

> central nervous system effects”(Griffiths 1998).

>

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> Despite growing evidence that it is harmful to public health, US federal and

> state public health agencies and large dental and medical organizations such

> as the

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American Dental Association (ADA), continue to promote fluoride.

> Water fluoridation continues, despite the Environmental Protection Agency

> (EPA)’s own scientists, whose union, Chapter 280 of the National Treasury

> Employees Union, has taken a strong stand against it. Dr. William Hirzy,

> vice president of Chapter 280, stated that “fluoride

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(that is added to

> municipal water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial

> evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception,

> virtually no evidence of significant benefits”( Mullenix 1998). Although

> fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur dioxide, it is still

> not regulated as an air pollutant by the American Clean Air Act.

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Since

> thousands of tonnes of industrial fluoride waste is poured into drinking

> water supplies all over North America, supposedly to encourage gleaming

> smiles in our children, big industry in the US has the benefit of emitting

> as much fluoride waste into the environment as they like with absolutely no

> requirement to measure emissions and no way of being held accountable for

> poisoning people, animals and vegetation.

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> In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research Council, the

> research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), re-evaluate water

> fluoride safety standards by reviewing recent scientific literature, because

> the last review in 1993 had major gaps in research.

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“Neither the US Food and

> Drug Administration (FDA), nor the National Institute for Dental Research

> (NIDR), nor the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has any proof on

> fluoride’s safety or effectiveness”(Sterling 1993).

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The International

> Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an

> unapproved dental medicament due to it’s high toxicity and the US National

> Cancer Institute Toxicological Program has found fluoride to be an

> “equivocal carcinogen” (Maurer 1990).

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> Currently the US government is continuing to introduce further fluoridation

> schemes throughout the country, including the Water Act passed in November

> 2003, which has made it impossible for water companies to undergo civil or

> criminal hearings as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies.

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> In a society where products containing asbestos, lead, beryllium and many

> other carcinogens have been recalled from the marketplace, it is surprising

> that fluoride is embraced so thoroughly and blindly. It seems absurd that we

> would consider paying the chemical industry to dispose of their toxic waste

> by adding it to our water supply.

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Hiding the hazards of fluoride pollution

> from the public is a capitalist-style con job of epic proportions that has

> occurred because a powerful lobby wishes to manipulate public opinion in

> order to protect it’s own financial interests.

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“Those who manipulate this

> unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the

> true ruling power of our country… our minds are molded, our tastes formed,

> our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of”

[RichmondSpiritMedium]

Another thing...I think people in the U.S should start bucking companies that won't pay employees properly...i.e., refuse to work for them, no matter what the cost is to them, or to their families...change won't come until we step up and collectively refuse to work for chump change...

[RichmondSpiritMedium]

I firmly believe, and have believed for years, that NO company that has to pay its employees low wages in order to survive should be allowed to exist. I believe government should shut down companies that refuse or can't afford to pay each employee at least $20 an hour, which is STILL barely enough to get by...

[KripDrip]

businesses pay whatever they think your worth. Its a business not a charity organication. Theyre goal is to make as much profit as possible like all other businesses. If you dont like it, quit and get a job somewhere else. No one puts a gun to your head to work or shop at Walmart.

[pinkiruina]

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[DarthHater100]

I am perfectly fine with Walmart paying their employees low wage.  This movie is so backwards. No one is forcing them to work there. It's a free country and if you aren't educated or are pretty much unemployable then you end up at Walmart. I don't work there, because I have worked hard in my life. I used to work for minimum wage and I was happy to do so and I got payed what I deseverved, having no job experience or education at the time.

[Nikkirose1316]

@DarthHater100 First of all, it's higher education, not just education. Last time I checked we all spend the same 12-13 years in schoo(most people at least) I worked at Wal-mart while I was in college. Many of the people at my store were college students paying their way through school, and others were laid off from their "real jobs" and Wal-mart was what was available. I dislike Wal-mart as much as everyone else but get your facts straight before you insult the entire workforce,

[prinny714]

Stupid biased video. Healthcare is basically free if your income is low enough. If you work at wal-mart and you have a family to support. Then you should have free healthcare. Before you used to have to apply for it, but now since Obama's piece of crap healthcare plan. Everyone with a low income can have free healthcare! While the average person and up has to pay even MORE taxes. Fantastic isn't it? Stupid video

[zac1bar83]

The question here is why doesn't the kid working in the mechanic shop, start his own mechanic shop, or work for another mechanic shop. People can buy there own health insurance they don't have to have there work provide it.

[emmyday01]

its true so many adults i worked with had to live with their parents!

[kurisu7885]

To be honest, these days I liken the USA to medieval Europe. The best health-care, education, best everything is controlled by the rich, and the system has been rigged by the rich to practically the only way to be a success is to either be born into it, a bloodsucking parasite, or willing to step on and strip away the dignity of as many people as possible to make it.

[kurisu7885]

Whoever currently owns this company now has likely completely fucked up and distorted the image the founder had in mind for it.

[brianpadraic]

God curse all the Wal-Mart executives with incurable cancer... and the Walton siblings and their ilk. Forever. Good riddance. Scum. Such "love" they have for their fellow Americans. The Founding Fathers would have them all lynched on the National Mall.

[Ihatemyusernamemore]

I'm soooooooo glad we don't have this company in New Zealand, if they ever try to build one here I'm gunna distribute copies of this documentary at my uni

[beerbelly777]

why are these people acting like theyre victims?

It's their fualt they decided NOT to get a degree, or get the right kind of degree (gee, ever heard of being a lawyer, a heart surgeon or an aerospace engineer?). Becuase they chose not to goto college, or choose to choose a copout degree that doesnt make money, it is their fualt they are working at walmart.

They did it to themselves. My advice: if you are young, go to college!

[Zeppelin1618]

You must be joking. Many of these people did try to go to college. Very few of these people work at McDonald's or Wal-Mart of any of these corporations because they wanted to do so. Many tried to go to school, but circumstances arise that are not within the realm of control. As the saying goes, shit happens.

But seriously, don't peddle your ignorance. It's not very flattering.

[beerbelly777]

If they have time to show up at walmart and clock in, they have time to go to school and finish their degree.

seriously, only idiots or the unmotivated dont finish college and be successful. Oh, did I mention you also have to choose the right degree? heh a degree in music or business aint gonna cut it, how about try being a heart surgeon.

[KripDrip]

dont put all the blame on walmart. Its no better or worse than McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, Best Buy, Burger King the gas station cashier, the hole in the wall chinese restaurant and any other business that pays minimum wage.

[detroitsports77]

well if everyone was a lawyer, heart surgeon, or aerospace engineer who would do everything else? beerbelly777, do yourself and the rest of us a favor and commit suicide.

[beerbelly777]

Well, gee, that's hard...how about high school kids and people who need a part time job WHILE theyre in college working towards that heart surgeon degree.

You fail...you lazy bum you!

[gopconservative78]

This is union bullshit......typical they ruin government, car companies, now they want WalMart....Unions are Communist Scum

[clusterfocked]

@gopconservative78 - Is it too much to ask to be treated like a human being at your workplace???? WTF is wrong with you??? Use your brain!!! Did you hear how much this company costs the taxpayers??? It's not a lie it's fact!!! Pull your head out of your ass!!!!

[gopconservative78]

greed is good, there are winners and losers, the people working there are losers....not my problem they have 60 children, don't live within a budget

[kurisu7885]

@gopconservative78

Yes they do live within a budget, and most of them don't have more than one or two kids.

By the way, your taxes are paying for employee health benefits for this company. I have no idea how you're ok with that but it makes Walmart partly responsible for the national deficit.

With people like you, no wonder the US is so screwed up. Greatest nation my ass.

[detroitsports77]

you must like cock in your ass. because thats what you get when you have no bargaining power and the companies just do as they please.

[gopconservative78]

typical idiot from Michigan......your state is falling apart....Unions=scum and must be destroyed

[JeepMaker77]

The worst thing about Wal mart is even though they are the largest retailer in the world they pay their full time employees so little that they are eligible for public assistance. That in effect means the US tax payers are subsidizing Wal mart billions.

[KripDrip]

theyre pay is no less than McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, Best Buy, or the hole in the wall burger joint. You get paid whatever your worth. Otherwise no one would work for them. No one is putting a gun to your head to work for Walmart or to shop at Walmart. If you hate it so much, quit and dont work at Walmart

[heysheeple]

dont work there then , i they cant fill the positons with workers they wont exist...

[LadyReana]

that is actually wrong, if they can't fill positions, then it falls to the workers that are already there. I work there and when I started I worked one dept, after people have quit, I am now required to work 3 departments.

[sillygurl1987]

Wow,such outrageous lies! Wal-Mart is an awesome employer. I wonder how much the union paid these fake wal-mart associates? Wal-Mart pays half of my medical and dental insurance for there associates. Does your employer so that? Discounts and so much more is what they give us and this country! Without Wal-Mart, look how many ppl would be unemployed in this country right now! Wal-Mart has more associates than any other company! Wake up world, you just watched a fictional movie!

[bfap]

The people not hired by walmart would be hired by stores that are still open from not being closed out by walmart.

[sillygurl1987]

And not receive half of all the benefits that you receive while you work at Wal-Mart. Where else do you get 10% off of you purchases. Yes,that doesn't sound like alot,but on average it saves us over $1000 a yr. Now add that into their pay,and how much are you getting paid an hr? Yes,once upon a time,health insurance was expensive,BUT not anymore. Wal-Mart totally rocks!

[radiofun1965]

fucking brainless

[systematic101]

It's not wal-mart that closes out the small stores. It's the people. If the people didn't want a wal-mart there wouldn't be one. The small stores go out of business because the people shop at wal-mart if they continued shopping at the small shops the way they did before wal-mart was there then the wal-mart would close.

[czarnyrobs23]

It's just a bullshit man. small stores can't afford selling stuff at as such low prices as wallmart does. Wallmart buys f.e. 10000 bikes at the time so it can pay lower price because of some discount. That's why it can sell at lower price. small stores just can't afford it. and ppl don't choose walmart, they choose lower prices. Obviously there are also other factors, like convenience of having all needed products in 1 place for example, but basicly and mostly it's all about the lower prices.

[KripDrip]

walmart doesnt go around demolishing other stores and closing them down. walmart doesnt put other stores out of business. the customers do. people choose to work and shop at walmart. Dont blame Walmart, blame all the poor people helping walmart cause walmart wouldnt exist without them.

[gopconservative78]

I happen to agree....Unions ruined America and Walmart is a company that works well. This is the process of creative destruction!

[gurulvoe]

Oh my freakin goddess! what the hell do this company think they are! how can they live in luxury when their employes don't have enough money to eat lunch or have health care!!!!!!

[wahid001]

If it were to happen in a third world country then the government's thrown out of power and these cocksuckers are killed. learn something you pussys not just earn. i am sure youtube's a great place to start a revolution and the best place to end it once you hit the shutdown button on your computer.

[pabon7]

even the mafia treated their workers right and paid them well. walmart is far worse

[ishitbiscuits]

pabon7, LMAO!!

[socialhoney]

@gurulvoe It's called minimum wage and it's not set by walmart lady. And guess what's gonna happen if you make more? You guessed it you'll pay more

[prinny714]

@gurulvoe

Then don't work at Wal-Mart.. it's that simple.. don't be stupid. If you're income is really low.. you already get free healthcare as it is. They CAN NOT turn you down. Then on top of that. Since Obama has been in power.. we now have our so called "Univeral healthcare" that's dragging us down even further. It's not even universal healthcare. It's basically the same thing as we've had before except it covers a larger range of poor people. Like all those illegals..

[gurulvoe]

@prinny714 Before you state things or base your opinion you should do research. The way Walmart runs its company isn't just effecting the workers, but you too. Please research. It's easy and actually makes you smarter.

[iheart2sing78]

LOL DM1790!!!! It is a movie! Someone put it on youtube. hahah

[DM1790]

"Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices" instead of being in parts on you tube should become a movie

[hindview]

"yes sireee" victorwolf my friend.. i'll certainly need lots of luck !

[hindview]

i'm gonna show that evil ole wal mart a thing or two! i'm startin my own big ol store i'm gonna pay everyone a hundred bucks an hour and sell everything cheaper than wal mart does!!ha,ha!

[VICTORGREYWOLF]

hope you accomplish that, hindview, but many times, it is easier said than done. But I wish you luck

[BlueEagle8]

I'd hate to say this, but it's a free country for now. If you don't like your job, just leave and find a new one.

[Rebel4Life69]

Not That Easy asshole.

[systematic101]

how is it now? You look for a better job. when you find one you leave your current job. how is that hard?

[Rebel4Life69]

when the job unemployment rate is 34%?

[insultant]

Could you please use your "fertilizer" to grow a brain?

[gopconservative78]

Agreed

[detroitsports77]

@BlueEagle8 ignorance is bliss, eh blueeagle?

[BlueEagle8]

Ignorance of what? Please expand. Just so you know, I never said it was easy. Life is a struggle; it's hard.

I always wonder why a woman would stay in an abusive relationship. Getting out of any abusive relationship is not easy. It's really hard, whether it's with a spouse or an employer. But I think that those that can gain the strengh can over come obsticles.

[kurisu7885]

@BlueEagle8

Because for a lot of people it's not that simple, and I have no doubt Walmart would do something to make it even harder on former or terminated employees to find future work

[kurisu7885]

@BlueEagle8

For a LOT of people it's not that simple. My dad lost his job as a delivery drive for his company after GM pulled their contract. He couldn't just go out and find a new job, it took him over a year and a half to find something he could do. He did it, but it was hardly as easy as just finding a new one.

[Wizzardd]

Es icreible y se erigen en el país modelo y no tienen un sistema de salud publica gratis para todo el mundo.

Si no tienes un seguro o pagas uno, te puedes morir del asco, que nadie te va a ayudar.

Que miedo dan los USA.