Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Update - Wal-Mart: Still Evil Maybe you haven't heard, but Wal-Mart is evil and stands against everything that good decent Americans support:  fair treatment of employees, fair competition, the right to organize, small businesses, good quality products at a fair price, puppies.  Add free speech to the list.  Item from the Pensacola News Journal: You can't buy the Pensacola News Journal at Wal-Mart anymore. The store ordered us off their property, told us to come pick up our newspaper racks and clear out. So we did. A few people called last week, some even wrote letters to the editor, and wanted to know why they couldn't buy the newspaper at Wal-Mart in the days after Hurricane Dennis. Some managers at Wal-Mart didn't appreciate a column Mark O'Brien wrote last month about the downside of the cheap prices that Sam Walton's empire has brought to America. We all pay a little less, and sometimes a lot less, at the grocery store and department store because of Mr. Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart. The article, by the way, was about the 10,000 children of Wal-Mart employees whose only option for health care was taxpayer-funded Medicaid.  Thanks to Steve Gilliard for flagging this atrocity - one more example of the evil bastards at Wally World throwing its weight around.  (Note:  by "evil bastards," I'm referring to management and the corporate honchos, pricks like the managers here who decided that newspapers who didn't toe the company line were not welcome within their funhouse doors.)  Go to the News Blog to get the full story.  Go here for more details on Wal-Mart ripping off taxpayers because they're too cheap to provide decent health care to their employees. 9:01:42 PM     Speak up!  []