Food for Thought...

[svxcess]

Subject: FW: Wal-mart vs. Political Morons


1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer, and most speak English.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.


During this same period, 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.


8. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

9. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 Years ago.

10. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur At a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.8 Billion.)

11. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.


You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the groundwork for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.




And while we're at it...

To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, It is now official you are ALL morons:

The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775.
You have had 234 years to get it right and it is.BROKE

Social Security was established in 1935.
You have had 74 years to get it right and it is.BROKE

Fannie Mae was established in 1938.
You have had 71 years to get it right and it is.BROKE

War on Poverty started in 1964.
You have had 45 years to get it right;
1 trillion dollars of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor". They still want MORE.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.
You have had 44 years to get it right and they are.BROKE

Freddie Mac was established in 1970.
You have had 39 years to get it right and it is.BROKE

The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on
foreign oil.

It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year
and we import more oil than ever before.
You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal FAILURE.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our
throats while overspending our tax dollars.



AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A
GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??


.

[BoxerFanatic]

Nice bit of contrast there.

Not that WalMart is clean as the wind-driven snow, because they aren't...

But Washington is a cess-pool, and not even with the side effect of being effective.

[sabin]

great idea, i just have to brush up on my Chinese

China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) was supposed to improve the U.S. trade deficit with China and create good jobs in the United States. But those promises have gone unfulfilled: the total U.S. trade deficit with China reached $235 billion in 2006. Between 2001 and 2006, this growing deficit eliminated 1.8 million U.S. jobs (Scott 2007). The world’s biggest retailer, U.S.-based Wal-Mart was responsible for $27 billion in U.S. imports from China in 2006 and 11% of the growth of the total U.S. trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2006. Wal-Mart’s trade deficit with China alone eliminated nearly 200,000 U.S. jobs in this period.

The manufacturing sector and its workers were hardest hit by the growth of Wal-Mart’s imports. Wal-Mart’s increased trade deficit with China eliminated 133,000 manufacturing jobs, 68% of those jobs lost from Wal-Mart’s imports. Jobs in the manufacturing sector pay higher wages and provide better benefits than most other industries, especially for workers with less than a college education.

[svxthc]

The people in charge have never ran an honest business in their combined lives, and probably are dumber than Joe the Plumber. They are hiding their own stupidity and arrogance behind the gated defenses of the White House and CNN. I embrace freedom. Our taxes are extremely high here, and many corporations are setting up shop overseas for that reason alone. We are being choked first by Obama and second by the repercussions of his welfare state/tax code.