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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: JBTFD who wrote (505329)12/7/2003 2:54:52 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
So I guess the Walton family, whose net worth equals maybe the lowest 60% of the population combined, are to be lauded for keeping their money in a building and employing the security guards there?

If one wishes to laud them for this service, then one should feel free to do so. I think they ought not be lauded for creating jobs in which they see no possibility for profit. They ought to be ridiculed for this.

While it is well known that their company pays low wages, is rabidly anti union, has a huge job turnover because of the low wages and bad working conditions, and buys most of their stuff from overseas where people are paid a pittance to make it?

Three things:

1. They obviously do a great business because folks apparently buy their stuff hand over fist.

2. I doubt they are anti-union. They quite likely believe as much in the freedom of association as anyone. But they likely don't appreciate being forced by union inspired law to conduct their activities in ways they think present a danger to their business.

3. If the workers do not like their pay, not a single Walton forces them to work. The workers are free to find better pay. Eventually, the Walton family will see that as fewer people wish to work with them, they will have to increase pay in order to compete. The problem is, Walmart workers wish to work jobs that anyone can do and they wish to be able to live like kings doing it. It doesn't work that way.

The Waltons do not owe their workers anything but what they have contracted to pay them - what the workers themselves agreed they would accept for their labor. They do not owe the workers pay sufficient to live a good life.

The check is bribe money.

It is but one of the things Bush has done for the working man, despite that you dismiss it as "bribe money." Surely you don't think Democrat pork is being served from the goodness of the Democrat's nonexistent hearts. LOL

People who are paying attention see that Bush is "the great divider".

Few are paying attention. They merely want their check and Bush is making sure they get it.

I guess we disagree on this. ; )

I guess so...
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