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To: Grainne who wrote (106575)	6/28/2005 11:16:04 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Do you know anyone including Wallmart people being paid minimum wage? I mean Wallmart here pays almost 5 bucks per hour over min. Have you read an article that tells me something I should know that our local labor statistics and my personal experience don't know? I'm on the local labor board so if you have expertise that I don't have please let me know. We just got through fighting a local minimum wage that was passed that is higher then the state minimum. Wallmart didn't fight it. Nor did Wendy's. I did, but I'm just a commie.

To: Grainne who wrote (106575)	6/29/2005 9:13:47 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 108807

I'm indifferent to Wal-Mart. I don't like going there, it's a pain in the neck. But apparently a lot of people appreciate them, they're always crowded! I don't know for a fact, but I bet the failure to unionize Wal-Mart is that the employees are getting a better deal from the employer than what the unions have to offer. But back to our modern version of Tammany Hall, the public sector unions. They have coopted and corrupted the laboring unions. Sweeney is bought and paid for by teachers, administrators, and professional environmentalists. For example, drilling in Anwar would be a good thing for the laboring unions, but Sweeney opposes it. Lane Kirkland would roll over in his grave!

To: Grainne who wrote (106575)	6/30/2005 12:36:56 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm not a "Wal-Mart" supporter, but I'm also not a supporter of people who use political power against "Wal-Mart". I certainly am not a supporter of the idea that either Wall-Mart, or the free market ideas expressed in the article tom clarke posted even remotely "harken back to a feudal society". A free market is very different then a feudal society. In a feudal society political power directly controls much of the relatively limited economic activity. In an economic sense feudalism is far more like socialism then capitalism. Its sort of a primitive form of socialism. Tim