If you thought that you knew what kind of company Walmart is

[bj229r]

If this woman ends up in managed care, it will take a lot of money to care for her needs.   And all of us taxpayers will then be paying for it.

True enough, Glok, and it won't matter how much money she has/had, because the facility will get it all before the first year is out---and they will go back several years to make sure money isn't being shielded in the account of a relative

[FrodeMk3]

True enough, Glok, and it won't matter how much money she has/had, because the facility will get it all before the first year is out---and they will go back several years to make sure money isn't being shielded in the account of a relative

Don't you have to meet certain circumstances' to qualify for most of these programs? And isn't space limited?

[texasmom]

And you think that financially ruining a family that has already lost a son in the war in Iraq is  somehow supporting our troops?  I wonder:  Just how would that dead American serviceman feel about the way that WalMart is treating his mother and father??
Very strange logic you are using here indeed!!

Actually, no, the specific reasons in my initial post (which you conveniently omitted from your quote of me above) are the ways that I have seen them demonstrate (not just state, but actually ACT on it) the support of our troops. 

Our local Wally World is a tremendous supporter of our troops ~ the school PTA's which the soldiers children attend, the USO, who attends all of the deployment/redeployment manifests, the Army Community Services programs, individual units, the Enlisted Spouses Club and Officers Wives Club, Santa's Workshop, our military family member Scholarship Fund... all of which have a direct impact on our Soldiers.  Their contributions have been exceedingly generous.

Over the years I've been involved in most of the local volunteer organizations here on post. I have YET to see Target or KMart contribute one single thing to our troops. 

Does it improve the poor circumstances for this one particular lady? No
Is it common practice for them? Not in my community. And in return for their unwavering support of our troops here in my community, I will continue to shop there.

[SteveBailey]

What you don't seem to get is that I am discussing morality here.   

Yes, you have incorrectly berated Walmart as being immoral.

[LePaul]

In I-Tard-Glok's world, all business should be run based on his narrow sense of morality.

So tell me, Mr Values, how much money have you donated to this lady whose cause you are championing? 

[MORAY37]

She doesn't have to be retold where her son is over and over.  Only a sadist like yourself would do that.

No, sir.  If you read about the woman, ( I know, it's a stretch for you to actually do any background before you bash me) her brain damage actually is so bad that she doesn't retain much that is told to her.  Her memory prior to the accident is apparently almost perfect.  Therefore, she constantly is asking to talk to her son, or to get a message through the DoD to him about her, and is constantly had to be told that he is in fact DEAD.  Just about every single day she has to deal with being told her son has died in Iraq, and to deal with it as if it were the first time she heard it.  She then promptly forgets it and then asks about her son... that she needs to get a message to him.

Please, you may not like me, for all I care, but flame me when you actually know what the #$#% you are talking about.

[MORAY37]

In I-Tard-Glok's world, all business should be run based on his narrow sense of morality.

So tell me, Mr Values, how much money have you donated to this lady whose cause you are championing? 

Don't worry.  We'll all get to donate now that Wally World isn't.  It's called managed hell...err, care.

[MORAY37]

That is exACTLY how Toyota has run its business for decades, during which time our over-paid union auto workers have slowly strangled their own industry. If the job you're doing can be done by an unskilled, illiterate Mexican, odds are it will eventually BE done by an unskilled,illiterate Mexican

Please, feel free to show me where Toyota sets the prices of any part of their supply chain.  You are grossly wrong in your assertion.  Walmart is the first and only company to EVER reverse the normal supply and demand structure of capitalism. 

Normally, demand drives prices, with supply determining said price.  Wally World has become so large, they TELL companies what they will be buying from them and what price, and usually it is way below the price at which demand has fixed it.  So, therefore, smaller suppliers are forced to deal with Wally World on Wally's terms, and not the terms set forth in a free market economy.

  Do the research, it will spin your head.

[MORAY37]

Yes, you have incorrectly berated Walmart as being immoral.

Please, feel free to show him why he is wrong.

[SteveBailey]

Please, feel free to show him why he is wrong.

It is self evident to anyone with a modicum of business acumen.  Based on your statement, you do not fall in this category.

[FrodeMk3]

In I-Tard-Glok's world, all business should be run based on his narrow sense of morality.

So tell me, Mr Values, how much money have you donated to this lady whose cause you are championing? 

Anyone got any kind of idea if Medicaid, or Medicare, will pay the $470,000 that these people will now owe, due to the Wal-mart lawsuit? I ask that, being as that sum was from Medical expenses incurred from the accident.

I think they pick up the tab. However, her future treatment or care will be at whatever level Medicare sets it at.

Please, feel free to show me where Toyota sets the prices of any part of their supply chain.  You are grossly wrong in your assertion.  Walmart is the first and only company to EVER reverse the normal supply and demand structure of capitalism. 

Normally, demand drives prices, with supply determining said price.  Wally World has become so large, they TELL companies what they will be buying from them and what price, and usually it is way below the price at which demand has fixed it.  So, therefore, smaller suppliers are forced to deal with Wally World on Wally's terms, and not the terms set forth in a free market economy.

  Do the research, it will spin your head.

I found this, it's an interesting little read...http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html?page=0%2C0

[AWMac]

Damm was hoping that soon lazs or rpm would post and divert this thread to a librul handout, gun control, Bush is the Devil or something about Nazis.

Crap... well the night is still young...

*popcorn anyone?*

Mac

[LePaul]

Mac you're just text pollution.   

[SD67]

I found this, it's an interesting little read...http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html?page=0%2C0

So Wally World is the Retail Mafia?

[Urchin]

I really find the vast majority of people in the O'Club to be extraordinarily narrow-minded and thoughtlessly bigoted... but this is a topic that I am actually interested in, so I'll dive into the skunk pool. 

Lepaul, Laser, any other posters who are in favor of laissez-faire capitalism, do you truly believe that the 1880s were as good as it ever got for the United States?  Answer that honestly, even if it means you have to go read a few books.  If so, you are in luck, because we've been headed back that way since the late 70s, and it looks like the pendulum isn't getting set to swing the other way... ever.  Laser, I have a feeling I would *really* like to sit and have a beer and just shoot the toejam about this kind of thing, even though I disagree vehemently with most of your positions. 

I do want to pose a question for you though.  Lets say we get to the point that capitalism is SUPPOSED to get to.  One guy has all the money, and power... and everyone else has nothing.  Do you just hope you are that guy, or what?  Or do you favor womanly government intervention to keep the economy inefficient?  Sorry, I was channelling Lazs there .

By the way... unions are a direct result of the 1880-1900 period.  If you are looking for their raison d'etre... read up on your US History.