Was Wal-Mart a more generous company when Sam Walton was alive?

bluestateguy

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:48 AM
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Was Wal-Mart a more generous company when Sam Walton was alive?

I heard that he was a far more ethical businessman, and far less greddy, than the younger generations of Waltons. I don't know. Educate me.

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ScrappyDem

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:50 AM
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1. Wal-Mart actually sold things made in America

When Sam Walton was alive.

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alphafemale

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:57 AM
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4. Welcome to DU

:hi:

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alphafemale

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:53 AM
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2. At one time...I believe when he was alive. They stressed "Buy American."

Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 01:54 AM by alphafemale

So much for that.

And I heard he drove around in a beat up pick-up.
Dressed casually.

Not an over-bloated ceo.

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ScrappyDem

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Wed Aug-10-05 02:25 AM
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5. Actually if you read Bill Clinton's Book

My Life--you will see that Hillary actually had something to do with the "Buy American" campaign that Wal-Mart had

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Luminous Animal

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Wed Aug-10-05 02:47 AM
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6. Union: Wal-Mart `Buy American' program is a sham

Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 03:01 AM by Luminous Animal

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/1997/07/28/editorial3.html

Query, when has Bill (or Hillary, for that matter) ever done anything for the U.S. worker? Who remembers NAFTA?

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BlakeB

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Wed Aug-10-05 03:00 AM
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8. For all the good things...

President Clinton has done, he surely made a lot of mistakes concerning keeping jobs in America.

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alphafemale

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Wed Aug-10-05 02:59 AM
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7. Yeah . It was a fiction.

Still better than the "Grab the Ankles"...

"The elite must have whatever they want"...mentality, that seems to be promoted today.

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Luminous Animal

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Wed Aug-10-05 03:04 AM
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10. How exactly was it better?

Because NAFTA gave it all over to the elite.

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alphafemale

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Wed Aug-10-05 03:15 AM
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12. ...better because at least they were still lying?

In no way saying it was good.

But compared to NOW?

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Luminous Animal

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:55 AM
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3. He was a union busting SOB (n/t)

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Luminous Animal

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Wed Aug-10-05 03:00 AM
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9. Ah'm thinkin'

that there's an effort here to rehabilitate ol' Hillary in the eyes of the Amurcan worker. Y'all know, to bite something in the head before it bites her in the ass. Hillary and Co. are spectin' us to remember the Walmart slogan (buy American) rather than the Walmart reality.

So the spin begins... Good Ol' (union bustin', slave laborin') Sam Walton says "Buy American! And Ol' Hil' agrees!

I am not buying it. Until Ms Clinton supprots a labor program without riding on a uber-capitalists advertising slogan, then she can go to hell.

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ScrappyDem

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Wed Aug-10-05 03:14 AM
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11. I' m a Democrat

My goal is to see Democrats elected that hold my views. Your views puzzle me.

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