I think this guy misses the point. I can't find the quote right now from the Rotten Library article, but I will paraphrase:
'When Wal-Mart opens in a town, it pushes all other stores out of business. Thusly it's the only store in town and becomes necessary, in terms of jobs and goods, for the continued survival of said town. However, to Wal-Mart corporate, it has always been store 127. When store 127 isn't doing well enough, or maybe tries to unionize, Wal-Mart shuts down store 127. However, for that town [in the article it mentions several that this has happened to, towns which have since become ghost towns], this is a death sentence.'

See, Nocal, it's simple. All you have to do is convince people to quit buying cheaply produced foreign goods, and preach to them the benefits of buying American.

Of course, thanks to your beloved unions, they won't be able to afford those products, even with their inflated union wages.

GO FORTH AND DO GREAT THINGS, YOUNG MAN.

mr. clemens, I beg to differ. The Costco example shows {WSJ} that when you pay your employees a living wage and allow the unions to set the standards for worker policies you get something pretty amazing:

People who love to work at their jobs because they can afford a lifestyle of a human being not some hourly wage slave--and they stay at the job for years on end, instead of churning the training/HR cycle--so its a lower cost all around.

More money for the company and happier employess ALSO with more money. What kind of madness is this? one that doesn't support a 300% pay differential between CEO and Joe Schmo. And I don't care how many companies he's burned to the ground, nobody needs that much cash to run a buisiness as a figurehead.

So it's greed keeping anything from going on, and it's the elite's greed who feel that given an individualistic mandate from God Capital, they can do whatever they sam hill they please and let everyone else pay for it.

It seems obvious you don't have any Walmart stock in your 401K. The average american worker has a retirement system with mutual funds usually containing Walmart , Exon, and all the other bad companies. You see, the average americans own Walmart , you damn dummy.

'The average american worker has a retirement system with mutual funds usually containing Walmart , Exon, and all the other bad companies.'

The average American worker buys high? And maybe sells low? Maybe you should rethink investing in stocks.

I don't know anyone with a 401K. You see, poor people, the kind that exclusively shop at Wal-Mart, don't own a sliver of it.

I know you don't, because you have to work before you can have a 401K.

Clever, but mistaken.