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Hundreds of thousands of liberals (especially the poor/modest) shop and work at Wal-Mart.

Only the elites don’t. They, of course, shop only at the other so-called establishments (which employ illegals and follow the same capitalistic mores, as all others). Hypocrites one and all!

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

The hireling is the “pastor”; the wolf is the union who pays the hireling to do their bidding.

The real question is whether the wheels on Jesus’s shopping cart would all roll in the same direction. I’d think that would be one of the perks of being the Son of God.

SailorDave on December 14, 2006 at 7:00 PM

They don’t sell bombs, so we can be assured mohammed would not shop there.

SouthernGent on December 14, 2006 at 8:06 PM

LOL!!!

OK, clue me in here,why do people have WDS ( Walmart derangement syndrome) ? Is it because they are successful, that they aren’t unionized and the mob wants their cut? A combination of the two? I’m kind of confused as to why some people just go apoplectic over this company.

Bottom line with liberals is always, always, always power. The politics of pull and influence determine their actions and motives. If someone runs a major non-union business, that hurts their power potential, so it is evil in their eyes.

About the quantity of Chinese products at WalMart, I’ve written them myself that they should try to keep more money in this country. But it is the buyer that drives the market, and WalMart will respond as soon as people quit buying the products they don’t want to see sold there. Not before. That’s how an unobstructed marketplace functions.

Unions can’t allow a major chain that ignores them to be successful, because it might lead to more of the same, and eventually people will notice that unions do nothing of value any longer. Again, loss of power is evil to those who have it.

The arguments made in the video are all strawmen. I would be less offended by the “preacher” (scare quotes for any pastor who allows their pulpit to be used by power-mongers) if he argued against WalMart for imported products, or how their existence has forced smaller-scale, local businesses out. Those at least are valid points.

(Actually, I’m envious. That was pretty funny.)

CyberCipher on December 14, 2006 at 8:14 PM

Make no mistake, though: like all good lines, I stole it fair and square.

Check your scripture at Leviticus 19:15:
“You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.”
And Matthew 7:1: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

In fairness, that Wal-Mart chain you rail against is really not so awful. I hear they now help the poor by selling prescription drugs on the cheap. And they appear to be doing other good works in the communities they serve. For example during just one year (2004), the store chain and its associated foundations achieved the following:

* Matched $61 million in grants for organizations in 3,500 communities, helping local schools, YMCA and other youth programs, fire departments, libraries and more.
* Gave more than $4 million to schools in Wal-Mart communities through local, state and national teacher of the year awards. Wal-Mart also provided through its Sam Walton Community Scholarship program $6 million in scholarships to 6,000 high school seniors that year.
* Partnered with the VFW to provide 900,000 kits to servicemen and women that included free phone cards, stationery and envelopes. Customers nationwide could also send messages through Wal-Mart in-store kiosks in support of our military men and women.
* Donated more than $7 million to assist communities and associates in hurricane ravaged areas of Florida and Alabama.
* Provided $3.9 million in direct support of the Children’s Miracle Network. In addition to this support, grants and donations raised through Wal-Mart and SAM’S CLUB stores nationwide gave $30 million to CMN in 2004.
* Helping to recover 120 children as a direct result of Wal-Mart’s Missing Children Boards. Since this partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children began in 1996, Wal-Mart stores have posted the pictures of more than 6,500 missing children, of which three out of four have been recovered.
* Through one of the largest volunteer programs in the U.S., Wal-Mart’s associate volunteer program, recorded 800,000 hours volunteered by associates in 2004. As a result of this volunteer activity, the program gave $5 million to organizations where Wal-Mart and SAM’S CLUB associates volunteered.

Is Wal-Mart perfect? No. But I did not send my Son to live only among the perfect. I sent him to inspire the sinner, not condemn him. So stop invoke my Son’s name, get off your holier-than-thou soapbox, and try to match the good works of Wal-Mart.

4. I’ve seen too many small rural towns lose home grown business once WM moves in.

You know what cracks me up? No one gave a damn about Walmart until it moved in to larger cities. They’ve been out here in rural areas for decades – and most of us are thrilled to have them.

I live in one of those small rural towns (population 1600)

People who demonize Walmart, aren’t people who live in towns like mine, it’s people who have no clue that people live an existence that is different than their own.

Yes, we’ve lost a few small businesses. But just like any other market place at any other time in this nations history, businesses must adapt to changing times or they die – and I say that as a small business owner.

Shall we look at it in other ways?

From a consumers point of view:

We are almost 2 hours from the closest “large” city. In our town most businesses are one of’s with no competition. Many of the items we purchase at Walmart are either unavailable locally, or or could be cost prohibative to purchase at a local mom and pop type store.

Want to buy a DVD locally? 27 bucks – and you have a choice of 10-15 videos. A video game that sells at Walmart for 49.95? 67 bucks at our local store and again, you have a choice of 10 – 15 different games divided among several different systems – and the price rarely decreases as the games age. Printer ink? 9 dollars less at Walmart and only sometimes carried at my local store. Want to buy a computer? You’re SOL locally. No one has ever carried them at all. Two hour drive, baby, or buy it online.

Thing is, it’s not just electronics we’re talking about, the same goes for everything from clothing to groceries.

As a consumer, if Walmart didn’t exist in our area, many items I would either not purchase at all, or I’d purchase it on the internet.

By purchasing the item at Walmart, it continues to support our community as a whole through tax revenue.

From an employees point of view:

Most mom and pop businesses in the area pay at, or slightly above minimum wage.

NO small Mom and Pop businesses in this area offer health insurance of any kind. You are on your own, and most purchase it through the Farm Bureau.

The jobs in this area that do offer health insurance are jobs that are unaffected by Walmart – state government, healthcare and factory jobs.

Oh, and factory jobs that would be affected by Walmart purchasing in China – most of those have been gone from this area for years – long before Walmart began purchasing in China.

The factory jobs that do remain have a tendency to hire through temp agencies – you can work any where from 6 months to several years before they will hire you permanantly and make you eligible for health insurance anyway…

Sounds bad doesn’t it? Who could possibly “make it” on Walmart pay and benefits???

Teachers around here make twice the household average wage. Our police officers starting pay is 7 bucks per hour.. Walmart starting pay is 9 bucks…

Most around here do pretty well, considering you can still buy a house for 29 grand and an “expensive” house goes for about $100.000.

Like I said, different existence, and a pretty damned good one at that.

Here’s an issue I want to bring up with you—in fact, I have before, in different contexts. During certain periods of his confinement, Dr. Lee was made to work, in prison sweatshops. He assembled Christmas lights, in brutal conditions. At another time, he made bedroom slippers, with Homer Simpson’s image on them. (You know Homer: the dad from the television cartoon.) You put your foot where Homer’s mouth is.

I asked Dr. Lee, “What do you think of people who buy those bedroom slippers?” He said, “Oh, they just want the cheapest product. But I feel that, if they knew about my situation, it would bother them.”

No kidding. I have never known quite what to think about this issue (and a journalist should never write before he knows what he thinks, but this is Impromptus—and we do things a bit breezily and casually here). I’m a free-trader; I’m a globalizer. I know that globalization has been a huge boon to the average Chinese, as to the average American, as to everyone else.

Regular readers know that I am a stalwart appreciator of Wal-Mart. Just about all of their products come from the PRC. And, obviously, most Chinese workers are not slaves, and not political prisoners, and not tortured.

But I hear about Laogai—the Chinese Gulag—and the manufacturing that goes on there. And then I encounter Charles Lee: who, in between bouts of torture, was made to make Homer slippers. I think I would have a hard time putting my foot into one of them. And how about hanging those Christmas lights?

My prediction: In a few years, Google and Starbucks will also be hated

Few years? I already hate them.

Just for the record, Jesus would never shop Wal-Mart, he would hit Lowe’s or The Home Depot. He would probably even shop Academy or at Bass Pro Shops too.

If I drop the change I got from my purchases at Wal-Mart in the Salvation Army kettle outside the door, have I committed a sin?

Target won’t even let the Salvation Army near their stores.

OK, clue me in here,why do people have WDS ( Walmart derangement syndrome) ? Is it because they are successful, that they aren’t unionizes and the mob wants their cut? A combination of the two? I’m kind of confused as to why some people just go apoplectic over this company.

I think it’s due to schadenfreude. They’re just so successful, that there are many people out there who want to see them put in their place. Same thing happened to Microsoft (but the hatred is not extreme).

My prediction: In a few years, Google and Starbucks will also be hated.

Scooped by baby Jane….;) Love you guys anyway….

But I can not deny their success, business plan or the fact that WM provide jobs to a lot of people. For those employee’s who work hard and excel, they are rewarded as it should be. They are a true capitalistic success just like Sears was 50-75 years ago.

Color me unsurprised by Joe’s remarks.

Would Jesus shop at Walmart? Of course he would …

… wait for it … here it comes …

Jesus Saves.

LOLOLOLOLOL.

I don’t understand liberals’ hatred of Wal-Mart. But it’s good to know that I’m pissing on liberalism when I shop there before going to church on Sundays.