tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post2279706778799971958..comments2023-11-02T03:10:39.674-07:00Comments on GeeeeeZ!: Wal-Mart vs The MoronsZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-15377830368520858922013-07-28T21:18:01.973-07:002013-07-28T21:18:01.973-07:00Detroit:
The problem of just "Pure Michigan&...Detroit:<br /><br />The problem of just "Pure Michigan"!JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-87705029606656280062013-07-28T10:47:18.094-07:002013-07-28T10:47:18.094-07:00This comment is way late but having been away for ...This comment is way late but having been away for a few days in the state of Michigan, there are viable alternatives to Wal-Mart in the form of outlet malls that offer brand name products at better prices than Wal-Mart. Two outlet malls that I have visited recently are the Great Lakes Crossing Mall in Auburn Hills and the Birch Run outlet mall in Birch Run, Michigan. Of course, the goods mostly come from outside the country, just like Wal-Mart, which may be hard to swallow for hard core American made fanatics, but I guess that is just the way the world works today. Cèst la vie.Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-22695053059355960542013-07-28T09:11:18.797-07:002013-07-28T09:11:18.797-07:00Re. Liberalmann:
"Where do you stand?"
...Re. Liberalmann:<br /><br />"Where do you stand?"<br /><br />On his head, of course!JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-26199120977650283212013-07-28T08:31:05.115-07:002013-07-28T08:31:05.115-07:00Liberalmann: And, again, about the post office, th...Liberalmann: And, again, about the post office, they should be paid fair wages (which is a lot lower than what they are paid now). Anything above the real value is a waste: a welfare payment, a handout.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-79446760186635031072013-07-28T08:29:12.540-07:002013-07-28T08:29:12.540-07:00Lib said: "Really? But you have no problem ba...Lib said: "Really? But you have no problem bailing out the banks?"<br /><br />Most Republicans wisely opposed this handout to the banks. Most Democrats including the current President, supported it.<br /><br />Where do you stand? With the Dems, or Republicans?dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-57976901343144508302013-07-27T03:35:38.684-07:002013-07-27T03:35:38.684-07:00Libtard,
I did -- that's for sure.Libtard,<br />I did -- that's for sure.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-30526904955280174722013-07-26T15:16:19.675-07:002013-07-26T15:16:19.675-07:00Really? But you have no problem bailing out the ba...Really? But you have no problem bailing out the banks?Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-64170949268181625662013-07-26T14:06:10.670-07:002013-07-26T14:06:10.670-07:00Well now, it's happened; the AFOL-CIO is [dema...Well now, it's happened; the AFOL-CIO is [demanding] that tax payers bail this $#!t#ole out. I say let them, the AFOL-CIO bail it out. They caused the problem!JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-16796463555429951862013-07-26T10:25:15.751-07:002013-07-26T10:25:15.751-07:00Just a thought for Mr. Sinclair:
Wouldn't it ...Just a thought for Mr. Sinclair:<br /><br />Wouldn't it exemplify conservative principles if each community were permitted to decided for itself whether or not it wanted to have a Walmart or something of the like within its boundaries?<br /><br />I don't believe in restraint of trade either, BUT I most certainly DO advocate the idea of fostering and doing everything possible to encourage The Rule of Local Communities through their right to set their own individual standards. That was how America first grew and developed. <br /><br />Ever-increasing standardization and centralization have contributed greatly to our present deplorable condition.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-51303627676792488572013-07-26T10:16:43.079-07:002013-07-26T10:16:43.079-07:00Your experience, D Marks, has obviously been radic...Your experience, D Marks, has obviously been radically different from mine. <br /><br />I guess it all depends on were -- and how -- one is raised. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-63389213581931857602013-07-25T05:10:51.238-07:002013-07-25T05:10:51.238-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-68677548787548871222013-07-24T19:35:05.009-07:002013-07-24T19:35:05.009-07:00Lib: Why not? It would save a lot of money. Pay a ...Lib: Why not? It would save a lot of money. Pay a fair wage equal to the value of the work.<br /><br />$50K for a low-value low-skill job like that is unsustainable.<br /><br />Actually, I am not sure where Walmart wages fit into this, but the fair, real value of wages of postal worker jobs would be about the same as what Fedex pays<br /><br />As of 2011, a Fedex courier was paid about $43K. A handsome salary. Still a lot less than $50K. The postal service could probably become solvent with a reform to pay real world, fair wages like they do at Fedex.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-10099784252822423092013-07-24T14:19:17.787-07:002013-07-24T14:19:17.787-07:00The average salary of a postal worker is about $50...The average salary of a postal worker is about $50k. You'd rather they pay them Walmart wages?Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-6484914213286151622013-07-24T12:49:21.491-07:002013-07-24T12:49:21.491-07:00Thanks to the union, the post office badly overpay...Thanks to the union, the post office badly overpays its workers. If it went to a fair wage, the financial problems would vanish.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-67753026722536483192013-07-24T09:52:16.351-07:002013-07-24T09:52:16.351-07:00JonBerg...Excellent point.
I didn't know that....JonBerg...Excellent point.<br />I didn't know that. BravoZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-3692990009658004452013-07-24T07:55:51.770-07:002013-07-24T07:55:51.770-07:00"the Post Office should look into how FedEx o..."the Post Office should look into how FedEx or Netflix does it."<br /><br />Well, for one thing FedEx is non-union.JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-4936680667366440722013-07-24T07:12:02.164-07:002013-07-24T07:12:02.164-07:00Free: Main Street puts itself out of business with...Free: Main Street puts itself out of business with terrible customer service. A sort of suicide. You can't blame Walmart and big box stores.<br /><br />A perfect example of this is when I wanted to get a camera tripod at 8 am in a town. I went downtown, and the camera shop and the rest of the stores were all closed. They would not be open for hours. The locked doors were a statement that they did not want my business.<br /><br />I went to Target.. they had already been open for an hour. And got my tripod.<br /><br />Thers: corporations are merely a way for people to band together to protect themselves from death taxes, frivolous lawsuits, and other predations of the ruling class. Thiw forces even the smallest businesses to incorporate.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-4940285625245950332013-07-24T06:57:18.213-07:002013-07-24T06:57:18.213-07:00what's a real relief is there will be almost n...what's a real relief is there will be almost no firings...if there had been a ton of postal worker firings, I'm wondering if Congress would have been called RACIST, too?<br /><br />Let's see what the Democrats suggest in order to save the Postal Dept.<br /><br />This is a perfect comparison to the Wal Mart/America's economy analogy; <br /><br />I've always said the Post Office should look into how FedEx or Netflix does it. THEY can handle deliveries amazingly profitably and accurately.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-16544276529757849722013-07-24T06:36:19.167-07:002013-07-24T06:36:19.167-07:00Libman, The whole point for my earlier response is...Libman, The whole point for my earlier response is to try to show you WHY Republicans are demanding the money's there for the pensions. They believe it's not enough to just promise money; they believe it should be forthcoming if promised.<br />Congress put it into law; change the law if you don't like it.<br /><br />And, by the way, it runs like a business, alright...a BANKRUPT BUSINESS. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-32877964746358393112013-07-24T06:16:16.250-07:002013-07-24T06:16:16.250-07:00Z said: Libdope: 'if you had a CLUE, I'd r...Z said: Libdope: 'if you had a CLUE, I'd respond. Your remark about the Post Office is hilarious'<br /><br />......<br /><br />Zzzzzzz;<br />I guess you don't realize the Post Office is required to fund pension programs for people they will hire in the future. Show me another governmental agency or corporation for that matter which this is required.<br /><br />A Manufactured Crisis:<br /><br />"At the very end of that year, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). Under PAEA, USPS was forced to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years in an astonishing ten-year time span” — meaning that it had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health benefits of employees it hasn’t even hired yet, something “that no other government or private corporation is required to do.” <br />http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/28/330524/postal-non-crisis-post-office-save-itself/<br /><br /><br />Things You Need to Know About the Post OFfice:<br /><br />1. The USPS is not technically “broke” — yet.<br />Operationally speaking, the USPS nets profits every year. The financial problem it faces now comes from a 2006 Congressional mandate that requires the agency to “pre-pay” into a fund that covers health care costs for future retired employees. Under the mandate, the USPS is required to make an annual $5.5 billion payment over ten years, through 2016. These “prepayments” are largely responsible for the USPS’s financial losses over the past four years and the threat of shutdown that looms ahead – take the retirement fund out of the equation, and the postal service would have actually netted $1 billion in profits over this period.<br /><br />2. The postal service doesn’t rely on taxpayer funds.<br />The USPS in its current form runs like a business, relies on postage for revenue and, for the most part, has not used taxpayer money since 1982, when postage stamps became “products” instead of forms of taxation. Taxpayer money is only used in some cases to pay for mailing voter materials to disabled and overseas Americans.<br /><br />http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-u-s-postal-service/11433/Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-71405589834427682172013-07-23T22:29:27.120-07:002013-07-23T22:29:27.120-07:00When Sam Walton started with a Five & Dime sto...When Sam Walton started with a Five & Dime store in a small Arkansas (rural) town, his idea was to sell to rural folks in small towns at lower prices than the local competition. He developed a rural strategy that was hugely successful, and then adapted it to moving into suburban areas. <br /><br />That way he could control the way he engaged in competition with K-Mart, Target, and a dozen other discount retailers in urban and suburban markets. <br /><br />In the early eighties, Walmart moved into my wife's home town in West Tennessee. We used to look forward to visiting her mom so that we could go to Walmart. It was really something, then, with prices you could not beat. As a matter of fact, it wasn't long before the smaller stores in her home town went out of business. They could not compete with Walmart.<br /><br />Now that Walmart has pursued their strategy of being all things to all people with lower prices, people are afraid of them, seeing Walmart as being some sort of evil entity.<br /><br />In truth if you look at rural America where they started, Walmart did powerful things, from employing people to changing the paradigm of the retail industry in the USA. Now that they are in urban areas, other sacred cows are being toppled. Unions are being seen as the anti-business entities they really are.<br /><br />So, Walmart is good news and bad news. Retail jobs have always been at the bottom of the food chain, and Walmart is just recognizing the facts realistically in retail markets. Walmart represents a force that is neither good, or bad. <br /><br />Walmart, or something like it, is inevitable.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665311979954859271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-51293309412071196342013-07-23T20:59:57.709-07:002013-07-23T20:59:57.709-07:00Walmart is a great store, they have everything and...Walmart is a great store, they have everything and if they don't have it they will order it. I also love Sam's Warehouse, too.<br /><br />They know what they are doing and this place is still going strong.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-26382799899510269092013-07-23T20:33:25.992-07:002013-07-23T20:33:25.992-07:00Does anyone see something wrong with this...especi...Does anyone see something wrong with this...especially after Obutthead exacerbated race relations the other day?<br /><br /><b>"At a conference of the National Council of La Raza attended by Michelle Obama, center, the leaders said they would press the House for a vote on a broad bill."</b><br /><br />WTF is wrong with us? And them, especially them?Impertinenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949905441786404348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-34883488476790248842013-07-23T18:51:46.964-07:002013-07-23T18:51:46.964-07:00In the absurd case that all jobs would become unio...In the absurd case that all jobs would become unionized:<br /><br />1) Inflated wages would become the norm and therefore of no purchasing advantage.<br /><br />2) Union Bosses would become the de facto management class.<br /><br />3) Efficiency of production would come to an abrupt halt.<br /><br />4) Inflation would surge.<br /><br />5) What's now left of our balance of World trade would collapse.<br /><br />6) Detroit would become the model city for the entire Nation.<br /><br /><br />That's enough for now; I'm getting Ill!JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-67108196468569295782013-07-23T18:38:48.850-07:002013-07-23T18:38:48.850-07:00Deplore Kmart. Don't go there.
But in some com...Deplore Kmart. Don't go there.<br />But in some communities they offer jobs and products that people want to buy.<br />It's not my favorite shopping destination, but it's better than the vacant building they left behind across town.Ed Bonderenkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.com