Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers, You’re Scumbags!

Wal-Mart is the favorite store of the middle-class trash-crowd because they are easily mislead by its bait-and-switch business practices. For example, Wal-Mart has been known to set very low prices on a cheap import item predominately located at each section of the store then jack up the rest of the prices in the department to compensate. Being ignorant, the trash that shop there do not care about the long term impact of the employee's low wages, rotten health care and the amazing imbalance of foreign goods versus American. The great unwashed masses of the ignorant never seem to notice that all their local shops eventually close down, then Wal-Mart prices do not have to stay so low.
Let me give you some facts; (Taken from The High Cost of Low Price The Wal-Mart Movie

-WAL-MART Drives Down Retail Wages $3 BILLION Every Year
-WAL-MART costs $86 MILLION a Year to California Taxpayers
-ALABAMA: 3,864 Children of WAL-MART Employees are Enrolled in Medicaid
-ARIZONA: 2,700 WAL-MART Workers on Medicaid
-ARKANSAS: 3971 WAL-MART Workers on Public Assistance
-CONNECTICUT: 824 WAL-MART Workers Have Children in a State Heath Care Program
-FLORIDA: 12,300 WAL-MART Workers and their Dependents on Medicaid
-GEORGIA: 10,261 Children of WAL-MART Employees are Enrolled in PeachCare for Kids
-MASSACHUSETTS: 4,172 WAL-MART Workers and Dependents on State Health Care
-TENNESSEE: 9,617 WAL-MART Workers on TennCare
-TEXAS: 4,363 Children of WAL-MART Employees on CHIP
-WISCONSIN: 1,252 WAL-MART Employees and Dependents on BadgerCare
-WAL-MART Costs Taxpayers $1,557,000,000,00 to Support its Employees – WAL-MART and Full Time Status: In the film, a former Wal-Mart co-manager claims that store managers are told to “Keep the number of associates from being full time, as many as you can, keep many of them part time, as much as you can.” A paragraph in a recently released internal memo from Wal-Mart corroborates the co-manager's statement.
-$7,000 ANTI-UNION CAMERA PACKAGE per store
-$30,000 UNDERCOVER SPY VAN per store
-$100,000 24 hour ANTI-UNION HOTLINE
-$7,000,000 Rapid response team with CORPORATE JET
-$50 MILLION to settle an off-the-clock class action suit in Colorado
-Wal-Mart Managers delete time from workers' timecards
-Federal Poverty Level Family of Four – $17,650
-Average Wal-Mart Hourly Sales Employee Wages – $13,861
-Wal-Mart is facing a class-action lawsuit for discrimination against $1.6 million former and current female employees. Edith Arana was told by a manager, “There's no place for people like you in management…” – WAL-MART and Racial Discrimination. Wal-Mart disputes this but the fact is the EEOC noted that only one of the 20 drivers Wal-Mart hired in 2002 was black. The EEOC also noted that Wal-Mart hired some white drivers with more serious driving violations and less experience than black applicants.”
-WAL-MART SUBSIDY NATIONWIDE: $1.008 BILLION
-Currently in the U.S. there are 26,699,678 SQUARE FEET of empty WAL-MARTS
-1999: All new WAL-MART construction halted in state of PENNSYLVANIA due to Environmental Violations
-2001: EPA orders WAL-MART to pay $1.0 MILLION fine for Clean Water Violations in: TEXAS, OKLAHOMA AND MASSACHUSETTS
-2004: WAL-MART fined $3.1 MILLION by EPA, the largest ever for a retailer, for Clean Water Act violations in TEXAS, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, DELAWARE, MICHIGAN, SOUTH DAKOTA, NEW JERSEY, TENNESSEE and UTAH
-2005: Connecticut EPA orders WAL-MART to pay $1.15 MILLION for Clean Water Act violations in 22 stores
-WAL-MART Imported $18 BILLION from CHINA in 2004
-The WALTON FAMILY Has Given LESS THAN 1% of Their Wealth to Charity
-Bill Gates of Microsoft has given 58%
-Wal-Mart currently faces lawsuits in thirty-one different States for wage and hour abuses potentially involving hundreds of thousand workers.
* Wal-Mart Wage and Hour “Off the Clock” Class Actions:
1. Adcox v. WM, US Dist. Ct. (“USDC”), Southern Dist. of TX, 11/9/04;
2. Armijo v. WM, 1st Judicial Dist. Ct., Rio Arriba County, NM, 9/18/00;
3. Bailey v. WM, Marion County Superior Ct. IN, 8/17/00;
4. Barnett v. WM, Superior Ct. of WA, King County, 9/10/01;
5. Basco v. WM, USDC, Eastern Dist. of LA, 9/5/00;
6. Braun v. WM, 1st Judicial Dist. Ct. Dakota County MN, 9/12/01;
7. Braun v. WM, Ct. of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, PA, 3/20/02;
8. Brown v. WM, 14th Judicial Circuit Ct., Rock Island, IL, 6/20/01;
9. Carr v. WM, Superior Ct. of Fulton County, GA, 8/14/01;
10. Culver v. WM, USDC, Dist. of CO, 12/10/1996;
11. Carter v. WM, Ct. of Common Pleas, Colleton County, SC, 7/31/02;
12. Gamble v. WM, Supreme Ct. of the State of NY, County of Albany, 12/7/01;
13. Gross v. WM, Circuit Ct., Laurel County, KY, 9/29/04;
14. Hale v. WM, Circuit Ct., Jackson County, MO, 8/15/01;
15. Hall v. WM, 8th Judicial Dist. Ct., Clark County, NV, 9/9/99;
16. Harrison v. WM, Superior Ct. of Forsyth County, NC, 11/29/00;
17. Holcomb v. WM, State Ct. of Chatham County, GA, 3/28/00;
18. Hummel v. WM, Common Pleas Ct. of Philadelphia County, PA, 8/30/04;
19. Iliadis v. WM, Superior Ct. of NJ, Middlesex County, 5/30/02;
20. Kuhlmann (In Re: Wal-Mart Employee Litigation) v. WM, Circuit Ct., Milwaukee County, WI, 8/30/01;
21. Lerma v. WM, Dist. Ct., Cleveland County, OK, 8/31/01;
22. Lopez v. WM, 23rd Judicial Dist. Ct. of Brazoria County, TX, 6/23/00;
23. Mendoza v. WM, Superior Ct. of CA, Ventura County, 3/2/04;
24. Michell v. WM, USDC, Eastern Dist. of TX, Marshall Div., 9/13/02;
25. Montgomery v. WM, USDC, Southern Dist. of MS, 12/30/02;
26. Mussman v. WM, IA Dist. Ct., Clinton County, 6/5/01;
27. Nagy v. WM, Circuit Ct. of Boyd County, KY, 8/29/01;
28. Newland v. WM, Superior Ct. of CA, Alameda County, CA, 01/14/05;
29. Osuna v. WM, Superior Ct. of AZ, Pima County, 11/30/01;
30. Pickett v. WM, Circuit Court, Shelby County, TN, 10/22/03;
31. Pittman v. WM, Circuit Ct. for Prince George's County, MD, 7/31/02;
32. Robinson v. WM, Circuit Ct., Holmes County, MS, 12/30/02;
33. Sago v. WM, Circuit Ct., Holmes County, MS, 12/31/02;
34. Romero v. WM, Superior Ct. of CA, Monterey County, 03/25/04;
35. Salvas v. WM, Superior Ct., Middlesex County, MA, 8/21/01;
36. Sarda v. WM, Circuit Ct., Washington County, FL, 9/21/01;
37. Savaglio v. WM, Superior Ct. of CA, Alameda County, 2/6/01;
38. Scott v. WM, Circuit Ct. of Saginaw County, MI, 9/26/01;
39. Smith v. WM, Circuit Ct., Holmes County, MS, 12/31/02;
40. Thiebes v. WM, USDC, Dist. of OR, 6/30/98;
41. Willey v. WM, Dist. Ct. of Wyandotte County, KS, 9/21/01;
42. Williams v. WM, Superior Ct. of CA, Alameda County, 3/23/04;
43. Wilson v. WM, Common Pleas Ct. of Butler County, OH, 10/27/03;
44. Winters v. WM, Circuit Ct., Holmes County, MS, 5/28/02.
* Source: Wal-Mart Stores 10K Filing, March 31, 2005, Pg. 16, Item 3.
If this does no convince you by itself, PBS has also done a documentary on Wal-Mart so don't take my word on it. You can SEE the documentary on the PBS Website, which is less biased but no less disturbing to the economically aware, especially in light of the fact that the CEO of Wal-mart is now asking for MORE (forbes.com) government help right after revealing a “Value Plan” that has no value, and will certainly not help the majority of their employees. Communities all over the country are being ruined by their rape, pillage, and plunder style of corporate creed.
I took a trip to Three Rivers, Michigan this weekend. Both my wife and I were happy to see they are a small town that is alive with multiple small local businesses. As we drove into the downtown area, we both commented that the town must be lacking a Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, before we left Three Rivers we found out they have one coming. We were told the local businesses were making drastic plans in the effort to stay alive. What a shame it is that they have no chance at all. Within 3 years their downtown area will be a ghost town. Please do not shop Wal-Mart and if you do, I wash my hands of you, and like Pilate, would not object to your crucifixion.
Important Sites for Self-Education;
Wal-Mart Watch
Wal-Mart Movie
PBS Frontline