Do you shop at Walmart?

[Foxfyre]

That is of course exactly the reason. If Wal Mart was a good little employer and hired union employees they would be celebrated.

I think you're probably right. And those condemning Walmart as evil because of whatever would instead be defending them or excusing them for those same 'crimes'.

There you go again. Cajun Injectors must be on sale at Mal-Wart?

Start with the paragraph "Could it be..." and tell me why that is not exactly what you just described about "saying what they didn't say". No, ferreting out the motive unilaterally is not part of a rational discussion; it's constructing a strawman. Nobody but Special Ed (a Mal-Wart shopper) claimed anybody wanted to "ban" Wal-Mart. Nobody but you W-M shoppers came up with the idea of "banning", "controlling", "restricting" or what have you. If we did, bring it on with a quote.

Choosing the answer "no" to the poll question (and explaining why) is not "attacking" Wal-Mart. We do have the choice-- it is a yes/no question. That means you have to accept those answers at variance with your own. Just as those of us on the 'no' side accept yours.

You continue to read far more into a post and draw far more assumptions from it than what is there. (This observation is not ad hominem nor is it a personal insult. It is a simple statement of fact based on what you continue to do here.)

And you seem fixated on what one member posted waaaaaaay back somewhere among the many pages and hundreds of posts and seem to think all the rest of us are saying or iinferring the same thing. We aren't. You cannot find anywhere that I have accused anybody of wanting to ban Walmart. I absolutely have said there are those who want to hurt Walmart because they've said so in this thread or their posts cannot be interpreted any other way.

Answering 'no' to the poll question is NOT attacking Walmart. Stating that you didn't enjoy a Walmart experience is not attacking Walmart. Offering a legitimate criticsm of Walmart is not attacking Walmart.

Taking an anecdotal negative incident or situation and stating it as typical of Walmart or protraying it as typical of what Walmart is all about IS attacking Walmart.

And it does beg the question of what motivates somebody to go out of their way to attack Walmart. And why does there appear to be an organized and orchestrated effort on the part of some to punish or hurt Walmart?

We could also expore why you seem to have so much trouble understanding or correctly interpreting what others post, but that would be better explored on another thread. (Just kidding.)

 

[Mr Natural]

1)Child labor is fine as long as there is no better alternative for the child.

2) Of course the solution to poverty is capitalism, but it spreads slowly if at all because brain dead liberals oppose it.

3) So, libturds are responsible for all the child labor in the world.

Yeah, the cheap labor conservatives are just innocent dupes in the whole matter.

if dupes you would not be so afraid to explain why. What does your fear tell you about the liberal IQ and character.

Perhaps dupes was bad choice of words. Maybe souless, money gubbing pricks would be more to your liking.

 

[Pogo]

I think you're probably right. And those condemning Walmart as evil because of whatever would instead be defending them or excusing them for those same 'crimes'.

There you go again. Cajun Injectors must be on sale at Mal-Wart?

Start with the paragraph "Could it be..." and tell me why that is not exactly what you just described about "saying what they didn't say". No, ferreting out the motive unilaterally is not part of a rational discussion; it's constructing a strawman. Nobody but Special Ed (a Mal-Wart shopper) claimed anybody wanted to "ban" Wal-Mart. Nobody but you W-M shoppers came up with the idea of "banning", "controlling", "restricting" or what have you. If we did, bring it on with a quote.

Choosing the answer "no" to the poll question (and explaining why) is not "attacking" Wal-Mart. We do have the choice-- it is a yes/no question. That means you have to accept those answers at variance with your own. Just as those of us on the 'no' side accept yours.

You continue to read far more into a post and draw far more assumptions from it than what is there. (This observation is not ad hominem nor is it a personal insult. It is a simple statement of fact based on what you continue to do here.)

And you seem fixated on what one member posted waaaaaaay back somewhere among the many pages and hundreds of posts and seem to think all the rest of us are saying or iinferring the same thing. We aren't. You cannot find anywhere that I have accused anybody of wanting to ban Walmart. (of course I can) I absolutely have said there are those who want to hurt Walmart because they've said so in this thread or their posts cannot be interpreted any other way.

Answering 'no' to the poll question is NOT attacking Walmart. Stating that you didn't enjoy a Walmart experience is not attacking Walmart. Offering a legitimate criticsm of Walmart is not attacking Walmart.

Taking an anecdotal negative incident or situation and stating it as typical of Walmart or protraying it as typical of what Walmart is all about IS attacking Walmart.

And it does beg the question of what motivates somebody to go out of their way to attack Walmart. And why does there appear to be an organized and orchestrated effort on the part of some to punish or hurt Walmart?

We could also expore why you seem to have so much trouble understanding or correctly interpreting what others post, but that would be better explored on another thread. (Just kidding.)

You see, you can't just unilaterally assign your own choice of motivation to somebody else when they have articulated no such thing. I can go back and fetch many many more examples just from your posts. And you know I"ll do it. I've bolded exactly one such phrase above, the latest in a long line of strawmen. You get to declare your own motivations. Not those of others.

But it does beg the question of what motivates somebody to go out of their way to apologize (shill) for Wal-Mart. What's it to you? Are you the ghost of Sam Walton? Are you losing some commission you would have made on my purchases? Why take personal offence that somebody else happens to have a different shopping standard? For what reason should we all be thinking in lockstep? Our daring to post criticism on a freaking message board is going to roll up the sidewalks on a megacorporation? Get over it already.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Yeah, the cheap labor conservatives are just innocent dupes in the whole matter.

if dupes you would not be so afraid to explain why. What does your fear tell you about the liberal IQ and character.

Perhaps dupes was bad choice of words. Maybe souless, money gubbing pricks would be more to your liking.

but why souless. Don't you have a reason?? Does it occur to you that a reason is necessary?? Are you just a violent liberal Nazi who wants to right regardles of reason???

 

[LogikAndReazon]

That is of course exactly the reason. If Wal Mart was a good little employer and hired union employees they would be celebrated.

I think you're probably right. And those condemning Walmart as evil because of whatever would instead be defending them or excusing them for those same 'crimes'.

In other news, I just ran to Wal Mart and picked a few things up, including some really delicious looking avocados which were probably picked by an 8 year old Ecuadorian girl who is paid a nickel a day to pick them, I paid twenty nine cents apiece for them.

The only thing better than avocados is inexpensive avocados.

And eight yr old ecuadorian girls helping to feed their families lol

 

[Pogo]

I think you're probably right. And those condemning Walmart as evil because of whatever would instead be defending them or excusing them for those same 'crimes'.

I don't think so. All of Walmart's business practices are sketchy and destructive.

They come into small towns and cut prices well below what the local businesses can afford to charge, forcing many of them out of business. That's a loss of jobs, and taxes to the local community. In some cases, the local business area looses so many small stores, few people go to the business area and all local businesses suffer. This process is repeated so often, it's called "cratering". In the end, only Walmart remains.

It also happens for suppliers. Walmart constantly pressures them to reduce their prices and because of their enormous purchasing power, the suppliers are required to do so. Often the best way to reduce costs is to manufacture offshore, so American jobs are lost so Walmart can give consumers those cheap, cheap prices.

I make a point of buying goods manufactured in 1st world countries. I don't buy stuff that's made in China. I think ethics matter. Just because a thing is legal, doesn't make it right. I value my friends and neighbours more than I value the money I can save shopping at Walmart.

Indeed, some seem to think life is not just a one-dimensional quest for money, and that's it. They want to live in a simplistic world, that's their business. I too don't get why they feel the need to drag everybody else down with them.

I don't like unions and I have little use for them. But I have less use for a company which promotes employment practices which keep it's employees dependent on food stamps and Medicaid, and forces it's suppliers to ship jobs overseas in an effort to pad it's profits.

I hold no grudges against the people who choose to shop there. I am surprised at the animosity of those who choose to shop at Walmart have for those of us who don't.

Exactly.

 

[Pogo]

I think you're probably right. And those condemning Walmart as evil because of whatever would instead be defending them or excusing them for those same 'crimes'.

In other news, I just ran to Wal Mart and picked a few things up, including some really delicious looking avocados which were probably picked by an 8 year old Ecuadorian girl who is paid a nickel a day to pick them, I paid twenty nine cents apiece for them.

The only thing better than avocados is inexpensive avocados.

And eight yr old ecuadorian girls helping to feed their families lol

Just as life isn't entirely about money, price is not entirely about the tag.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

I think you're probably right. And those condemning Walmart as evil because of whatever would instead be defending them or excusing them for those same 'crimes'.

In other news, I just ran to Wal Mart and picked a few things up, including some really delicious looking avocados which were probably picked by an 8 year old Ecuadorian girl who is paid a nickel a day to pick them, I paid twenty nine cents apiece for them.

The only thing better than avocados is inexpensive avocados.

And eight yr old ecuadorian girls helping to feed their families lol

Mostly they don't have families, if they were loved they probably would not be working. Mostly what they have is a garbage dump to scavenge through or if they are lucky, factory work!

There is huge poverty all over the world and all because liberals stop the spread of capitalism!

 

[Mr Natural]

if dupes you would not be so afraid to explain why. What does your fear tell you about the liberal IQ and character.

Perhaps dupes was bad choice of words. Maybe souless, money gubbing pricks would be more to your liking.

but why souless. Don't you have a reason?? Does it occur to you that a reason is necessary?? Are you just a violent liberal Nazi who wants to right regardles of reason???

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions, you become dead inside, aka soulless.

Why do conservatives lack the IQ to figure that one out?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions,

Sorry dear but conservatives are much more religious and give much more to charity than liberals so to say money is main factor would only make sense to a goofy liberal.

 

[Mr Natural]

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions,

Sorry dear but conservatives are much more religious and give much more to charity than liberals so to say money is main factor would only make sense to a goofy liberal.

Guilt on their part for being such uncaring, money grubbing pricks.

 

[Pogo]

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions,

Sorry dear but conservatives are much more religious and give much more to charity than liberals so to say money is main factor would only make sense to a goofy liberal.

It is after all the reasoning horse you've been riding up to now. Didn't know they sold rotating goalposts at Mal-Wart.

Have fun down there -

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions,

Sorry dear but conservatives are much more religious and give much more to charity than liberals so to say money is main factor would only make sense to a goofy liberal.

Guilt on their part for being such uncaring, money grubbing pricks.

Snot nosed liberal adolescents care more !!!! lol

 

[Pogo]

Sorry dear but conservatives are much more religious and give much more to charity than liberals so to say money is main factor would only make sense to a goofy liberal.

Guilt on their part for being such uncaring, money grubbing pricks.

Snot nosed liberal adolescents care more !!!! lol

Foxfyre's gotta be cringing right now. Having Special Ed on your side must be like having Alex Jones, run through a goofy amplifier.

 

[Uncensored2008]

And eight yr old ecuadorian girls helping to feed their families lol

Leftists like Pogo only feel good about themselves if 8 year olds and their families starve to death.

 

[Foxfyre]

Perhaps dupes was bad choice of words. Maybe souless, money gubbing pricks would be more to your liking.

but why souless. Don't you have a reason?? Does it occur to you that a reason is necessary?? Are you just a violent liberal Nazi who wants to right regardles of reason???

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions, you become dead inside, aka soulless.

Why do conservatives lack the IQ to figure that one out?

What should be the motivating factor in our decisions?

Everybody could of course work for the common good - from each according to his ability or means and all that. . . .of course we know from bitter experience that this generally results in poverty or near poverty for everybody. Nobody in their right mind, no matter how compassionate, will work for long for one who has no desire or motivation to contribute whatever he/she can for the 'common good'.

Or we all could be going about our business, looking to our own interests that includes making enough money to keep a roof over our heads, food on the table, pay the bills, educate our children, etc. etc. etc. and not expecting anybody else to do that for us.

Which is pretty much how and why Walmart operates.

So who is the greedy, soulless prick? The one who strives for ecoomic success so as to look to his/her own interests?

Or the one who expects the other guy to provide whatever he or she says is needed?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Just as life isn't entirely about money, price is not entirely about the tag.

Besides, third world kids starving to death makes you feel good about yourself. "At least they weren't working..."

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Because when money becomes the sole motivating factor in all your decisions,

Sorry dear but conservatives are much more religious and give much more to charity than liberals so to say money is main factor would only make sense to a goofy liberal.

Guilt on their part for being such uncaring, money grubbing pricks.

if uncaring why be so afraid you give your best example?? It must be nice to be morally superior and so caring?? You're a morality bigot given that capitalism transformed the world after 10,000 years of stagnation and starvation while liberal socialism killed 125 million through slow starvation.

Why did you think our liberals spied for Stalin??

 

[Uncensored2008]

Guilt on their part for being such uncaring, money grubbing pricks.

Besides, you leftists oppose giving anything to another that you didn't first take from your neighbor.

It's a matter of principle, charity begins in the pocket of another...

 

[Pogo]

Just as life isn't entirely about money, price is not entirely about the tag.

Besides, third world kids starving to death makes you feel good about yourself. "At least they weren't working..."

So you're saying, life is entirely about money, and every man for himself.

Thanks for confirming. I wouldn't have made the suggestion, but if you're wearing it, "there you jolly well are ::whew:: aren't you?" (< bonus: name source of that quote)