NYC Libtard Councilpeople To Walmart : Stop Giving Money To Charities!
What is the liberal obsession with Walmart?! Poor people don ' t shop at Whole Foods or buy their clothing at Macy's you stupid idiots! Your war against Walmart is a war against them! But who cares as long as they can hinder a successful capitalistic model that benefits the lower socio economic sector of the US-who the libtards swear they're championing!
My Father used to say "as long as you live under my roof..." So I moved out when I was seventeen. I am independent and therefore emancipated. I need no one to lord over me. The Statists can ... well, I am to proper to say what I really want from them.
Respectfully,
O.A.
You know the funny thing is, (although I did fine on my own) my Father's objection was the rock & roll company and late hours I was keeping, but later in life I really grew to appreciate him in ways my youth prevented me from seeing. I still miss him everyday.
Best wishes,
O.A.
EQUALITY FOR ALL in the gutter.
He said his teacher got up in front of the class to address the issue of standard-of-living differences between whites and blacks. Why, I have no idea.
The movie "Knight and Day" reminded me of what she did next. In that movie, Tom Cruise holds his hand at head level to Cameron Diaz and says, "your odds of survival with me", then lowers it to knee level and says, "without me".
The teacher held her hand up high and said, "we're up here". Then she held her other hand down low and said, "And they're down here". Then she said, "you can't (or "you can't easily") bring them up to here (she raised the lower hand level with the upper hand), but you can lower us down to there (she then dropped both hands).
It's always been easier to destroy a high level of prosperity among a subset of people, than to "redistribute" prosperity to the whole set.
The high level of prosperity among the subset acts as incentive for free people to join that subset; government can only create artificial barriers that affect some and not others. If, on the other hand, you let the free market decide, the level of prosperity of most will increase, more will join the higher and higher subsets, and justice will prevail (in that you can earn your way to the maximum level of prosperity your physical, mental, and emotional makeup allow). Think of it as evolution in action.
"
"Now," he went on. drawing on his cigar, "out here,
you've got problems from the bottom up, instead. Y'all
understand, you've got an unusual rulin' class here. A
full third of the population, and visible. Then the CD
sends you Earth's barbarians. And what do you do? You
give them a chance. You give them no excuses. None.
You make it plain, their failures are their own fault, and
you rub it in by making the rewards of success visible
and believable.
"That worked fine so long as you didn't get over-
whelmed. Lots of them made good, you've achieved a
remarkable and admirable social mobility. But a lot
just don't make good. Too many generations of failure,
too long away from even suspecting what citizenship
is. They see you as rich slavemasters, and they get told
all they got to do is take what's coming to them. Okay,
you can handle that if you don't lose your nerve, but
nobody ever said it was going to be easy."
"
- Pournelle, Stirling, "Prince of Sparta"
I have never understood the victim mentality. I may be a failure, but at least I admit my failure; I don't pretend I'm a victim of some innocent bystanders' nonexistent malice, thus inflating my importance and denigrating their characters.
I've been working with a significant WalMart supplier for the past 5 years or so, on and off. WM is relentless in pursuing lower costs. And have been quite innovative in achieving those savings, including pushing their suppliers to improve.
I love to hear about businesses that succeed and people who get rich on their own merit, but Walmart isn't one. I'm actually not sure that one can exist today, with government the way it is.
"I assumed you would have issues with Walmart."
I certainly do... ahem. :)
And as for favoritism, I have heard the same complaint about the company I work with getting "unfair tax breaks". Those who make the argument seem to forget that those deals usually occur during a planned expansion where businesses are making the best decision for the shareholders on where to locate the expansion. They also forget that those expansions generally mean more workers being hired, which contributes to the tax base. Something the statists require more of by the moment. So on one hand they complain about "unfair tax breaks" while very quietly enjoying the benefits of the expansions those tax breaks bring.
I could be mistaken, but I don't recall Intel leaving town without paying bills.
I am also a die-hard capitalist, and don't condone it if the company left debt behind as you suggest (I do not know the details of the shutdown). But large company or small company, we need to remember that jobs created means tax revenue for the city/county/state it operates within. I believe in a set of rules that applies to all regardless of their size. Just as I believe that we all ought to pay a fixed percentage of our income in the form of taxes (no exemptions) and abolish the IRS.
The answer is, "If you wish to help them, no one should stop you."
The Collectivists do not like this, of course, because they need their redistribution of wealth to be the only source of help for the poor to maintain their power structure.
http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Capitali...
I see it as pure marketing NOT pure thinking-there's a whole movement...
Having said that, my problem with Walmart is in how customers are treated, in particular Sam's Club. And by the way, if Walmart donates millions to help the poor, what brain-dead moronic imbecilic twit would have a problem with that, sheesh. Any how, I wrote this letter to the CEO of SAM's.Walmart and others, and have not stepped back into a Walmart or SAM's since:
"Let me begin by saying, I have been a SAM's club member since 1990, and this is 2013. That means for 23 years, I have been a customer of "Wal-Mart" and "SAM's" club.
Over the years I have watched this establishment's formerly great customer service deteriorate steadily. Sat. June 29, 2013, the decline of the service standard I used to love, finally hit bottom, to the point where I will no longer step foot in either Wal-Mart or SAM's Club.
I understand I am only one customer. SAM's Club and Wal-Mart are so large they really do not care about me as a customer, which is fine. Sam Walton said, "There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." Well as Donald Trump is so famously known for saying... "YOU'RE FIRED!!!"
Back to Saturday June 29, 2013. My wife and I went into SAM's Club for a usual shopping effort. We filled out shopping cart with the usual stockpile of necessities, plus the impulse purchases we usually fall prey to. After hour two hour roam through the aisles, we made our way to the front of the store to check-out. I notices three excessively long lines with cashiers working feverishly to check everyone out. There were also approximately eight to ten rather empty lines.
As I looked closer, since my last visit, SAM's Club had retrofitted the majority of the checkout lines with "Self-Checkout" machines.
Let me say this. "IF I WANTED TO BE A CASHIER I WOULD HAVE PUT IN AN APPLICATION AND APPLIED TO BE ONE!!! There is nothing at all wrong with being a cashier, I spent numerous summers as a cashier and bagger at a grocery store, however; IF I HAVE TO DO SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB I WANT A STINKING DISCOUNT ON WHAT I BUY!!!"
This was the last straw in the splendid 23 year display of steadily declining customer service. The SAM's Club motto seems to have changed from the heyday of Sam Walton who also was quoted as saying, "We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are." to, "If you ignore the customer long enough eventually they will just go away." meaning they are a nuisance and annoyance. Well my wife and my family just went away. "Mission Accomplished."
This was part of my letter to them. If you have issues with Walmart and them "using" Government, maybe the problem is not Walmart maybe the problem is GOVERNMENT!!! The more Government intervention, the more problems, then the Government tries to regulate to fix the problems they created in the first place, and this continues until the eventual collapse the system under the weight of regulation, laws, and government intervention from STUPID bureaucrats who's only goal in life is to collect a paycheck and create enough paperwork to justify their worthless existence.
Want a perfect definition of Government bureaucrats: Need look no further than the Vogons in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Guide Description:
Vogons, i.e. Government Bureaucrats are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders - signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.
Oh by the way, You mentioned the system telling you those are three for one, so I assume then that you leave the self-checkout go back to the store pickup 2 more then get back in the end of the line and HOPE against all odds that the self-checkout actually works and you don't have to wait for some manager to get their hands out of their pockets to come assist.
How about this for a strategy:
You LOOK AT THE ONLINE WEBSITE and see what their sales are BEFORE you go. Maybe prepare your shopping first, then shop and get out...
Personally I go to the store buy what I plan for and leave. I know what I am spending before I get there, with a 15% cash buffer in case I see something I forgot. I am not wasteful, but from a cost benefit perspective, wasting my time going back into the store, leaving the checkout line, or checking out then going back and checking out a second time sure does seem like an inefficient way to shop.
I also do not like doing somebody else's job and receiving no personal benefit like a discount on the items I buy as a "THANKS" for doing it yourself from the multi-billion dollar corporation and saving them HR, Salary, benefit, employee management, theft and so on.
But I, if you prefer doing it yourself, that is what freedom is all about, and more power to you.
I quit because it is obvious that in 8 lines with nobody using them , and 3 lines with an hour wait it was very obvious that the vast majority of people do NOT want to check themselves out, and I refuse to be herded by Walmart of Sam's club into what THEY dictate I should do.
Example: the other night, I'm on my hands and knees tearing up old, filthy rotted tile that had been under cash registers we'd removed (which we'll probably put back in 3 months... go figger) and replacing them with new.
The night before, in the same area, I hadn't needed to cordon it off, because A) there wasn't much traffic and B) what traffic there was was smart enough to take the features and other displays I'd arranged around the area as a "do not enter" message.
Ah, but I did not reckon on the 5th...
I had just gathered my supplies and started to tear up the old tiles, when I noticed people squeezing around and past the barricades to cross the area I was working on, saving themselves perhaps a tenth of a second.
I had taken up three tile, with the old glue still sticky on the concrete beneath, when a customer walked between me and a feature/barricade, stepping squarely into the gluey square I'd just uncovered, three inches from my fingers. His comment? "Oops".
Multiply that stupidity by 20 to get an idea what the cashiers and customer service reps have to deal with.
Another night I was working near the entrance, and a customer comes into the store and up to me and the security guard and asks, "Where do you keep the duct tape?"
So I told him, "Next to the MacGyver DVDs..." (no, I didn't, but I was sooo tempted...)
I'd be that brain-dead, moronic imbecilic twit.
See, if Wal-mart donates millions to the poor, that comes out of their profit. Which cuts into my bonuses.
It also drives their prices up for those of us who work for a living.
A lot of us who actually work for Wal-mart, btw... we're poor. We're just not welfare parasites. Well, some of us are *partial* welfare parasites.
Instead of paying millions to help "the poor", they could help the poor right in their own stores with merit pay.
They don't exactly go to Macy's to spend their welfare...
WALMART ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As if we needed any further proof.
Wednesday at midnight was the 5th. Surprise, the store actually got busier rather than emptier as usual. Same thing happened on the 1st.
Food stamps... gotta love 'em. I just wish a higher quality of people used them.
While living in Arkansas, I was cast in a Musical called "The Fantasticks", and our main SPONSOR was ... WALMART. Herein is an account of how this Mean, Horrible Corporation Treated my small Community theatre Group.
They provided a check for Performance "Rights" (which are not Cheap.) ANYTHING we needed for props, costumes, etc... The local WALMART stores were opened to us to basically HELP ourselves.
During casting, 2 members of our cast were employees at Walmart. (In NW Arkansas, you cannot throw a penny in the air without hitting a Walmart Employee.) Said employees were PAID by WM as if they were "on the Clock".
After a Successful run of the show, WM was paid for their sponsorship (repay advance for rights, etc). The money PAID to the WM employees was Matched by Walmart as a DONATION to our Theatre Company.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79RfA5BiU...
Long ago on another board entirely, we had a writer who pushed the word "flametard" to refer to those who made fun of him. He invited the ridicule in many ways, some of them purposefully provocative, but too often not. For example, though possessing a master's degree in journalism, he did not know that Cyrillic is an alphabet: he thought that it was a language. And he called other people stupid... You once accused me of being "ignorant about science" though you never heard of epigenetics.
Maybe "libtard" can come to mean a libertarian who is too stupid to understand Objectivism. (That should really advance the cause around here...) Or perhaps we could restrict it to mimes: ad lib artists in leotards. It could be transmogrified to tiblards: people with big thighs. Oh, we could call you "Kale: Ah, the Spinach Girl."
I can just see the next Presidential press conference. "Mr. President, how do you respond to the criticism that your administration tramples on our Constitutional rights?" ... "I would say that I am rubber and you are glue and whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you! Next question."
It is a small, humorous release. However, labels such as this one have been found to be quite effective. Your criticism is noted and I'm pretty sure if the admin found it inappropriate it would not have made the Daily Digest.
Never. Not once.
WELCOME, WESLEY MOUCH ... to Galt's Gulch!
If I were running a small business and paying a higher property tax rate than the politically connected big business down the street, I would be tempted to pay only the same tax rate as the bigger store, and file a discrimination lawsuit if the government attempted to collect more. Such a suit would probably fail, given today's court system, but the publicity would help undermine the public's faith in getting a fair deal from their local government.
When I see the words "Special Tax Breaks", it takes me back to OCCUPY and those scum and my brain reels from the collective stupidity of that crowd. by using "Their terms" we sound like them.