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Take your pick. Everyone has their issue. My involvement is more strongly geared to affordable health insurance for everyone so that people have more freedom to start their own business or cottage industry, and seeing that retail employers provide crappy if not non-existent health care benefits, I choose to work on this topic. Yes, Close down Wal-Mart if you must, but there are a whole bunch of other employers just as reprehensible as them, they just happen to be perhaps the most successful at it. They are only the tip of the iceberg, so if you are going to close them down, make certain you understand that laws need to be created and upheld indiscriminately for ALL companies of this nature, so, Target, Mervyns and like may have to go to, and most likely Best Buy and CVS and many others. And by the way, don't we already have labor laws in place that just need to be enforced by anyone that has the fortitude to do so? Or is there too much special interest money lining the pockets of the people out there that "could" do something. Pamela Ellison Como Park Saint Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Western" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pamela Joy Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mary Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [StPaul] Wal Mart > St. Paul E-Democracy Links > http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html > _____________________________________________ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pamela Joy Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mary Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Let's face it every large conglomerate that can, does. Let's not forget > how > > the HMO has greedily caused more havoc in the health care system than any > > other entity. > > > > Rising costs are strictly because of the greed of those at the top. > > Wal-Mart isn't the only one. > > Well, they're certainly on the cutting edge, it doesn't excuse the > unconscionable treatment of their work force by any means, and it certainly > doesn't make them an entity I'd want to welcome into the economic life of my > community. Where do you suggest we begin to stem the inflationary hemorragh > caused by all that greed at the top if not with WalMart? > > I think Mary has hit the nail on the proverbial head. Why do people > sacrifice their dignity and flock to fill WalMart jobs? Because people > quite simply NEED jobs to survive and because the Federal Reserve's stated > policy is to make sure there will never be enough jobs to go around. And > WalMart is right there to take full advantage of this governmental oppresion > of the labor market. > > Greenspan left no doubt that his stated goal in the last spate of relentless > interest rate increases was to deaden the economy until unemployment began > to rise. Artificially depressing demand for labor is a form of wage > control--driving down the price of labor--that the principles of the free > market would never, ever permit to encroach on any market but that of labor. > Imagine the reaction of Big Oil if The Greenspan decreed their price > fluctuations to be inflationary (which he has every reason to do) and raised > interest rate to depress petroleum usage every time the oil industry > concocted one of their "scarcities". > > CEO's claim an inflationary amount of the GDP in obscene wage levels and > marginally legal stock options that trash our retirement funds. The Fed > penalizes the working poor for inflation caused by greed at the top by > artificially holding down demand for labor. With economic "policies" like > this, how can there be any wonder that all the wealth of this nation is > accumulating at the top. > > Work as long and as hard as you want Horatio Alger, you're only going to > earn yourself the second-hand debt of Ken Lay. Great incentive to > over-achieve, isn't it? > > Guy Western > the West Side > > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > _____________________________________________ > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
