Don't Shop at Wal-Mart

“all week for the upcoming WalMart shareholders meeting. An annual even here at the University and they all stay in our dorms.....They always have good concerts...last year was the eagles... this year...Aerosmith? WHOA!

http://nwanews.com/blogs/tunedin/2009/05/20/coming-to-the-wal-mart-shareholders-meeting-maybe/”

“Yes, we know Walmart and the Klan were born in the same state,   LOL”

“Hey, watch it Tilt. Everyone knows the Klan was started in TN.”

“Noooooooo comment on That!   LOLz


This just in ---

On C-SPAN's BookTV this weekend.....
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=10548&SectionName=After%20Words&PlayMedia=No


How about those suckers at GM allegedly taking our money and ramping up production in China?   Are they REALLY going to ship those cars back Here?  UNbelievable.”

“truly unbelievable. We should have never bailed them out.”

“Yeah, we should have let the entire auto industry and all the supporting industry wash out and lay off everyone who worked there.”

“You liberals were all for the bailout.
Reap what you sow.”

“Tilty....PrezBO RUNS GM...HE is the one paying off the Chinese (for his election money) by buying cars from them...(LOL)


http://stuckon-stupid.com/2008/07/27/barack-obamas-chinese-connection-his-half-brother-mark/
last edited: 5/29/09 7:29:42 AM”

“chili, what makes you think the entire auto industry would have failed along with all the supporting services? Would people have stopped driving cars? Were you out pricing horse and buggies? Ford would not have failed. hell Ford will come out of this stronger. All the auto workers down south would have kept their jobs. It sucks for the great lakes areas, but eventually the greed and incompetence of the ownership combined with the greed and the immovability of the unions was going to cause a collapse.”

“True, when something fails it actually makes the rest stronger.

I have yet to have one person give me an acceptable reason why GM and the unions should be allowed to assume all profits for so many years and then when things get tough we tax payers assume all losses.”

“GM? Nigal the Government owns 75% and the unions Own 17% (granted how they "bought that" is up in the air)....Hyway I agree, Economic Darwinisim would have saved what was needed.

Hell I bet if the Unions had been faced with losing all those great deals they would have found a way to give up something.”

“The elite are never wrong even if taxpayers have to pay to make it so. The only way is the american way, Elvis.”

“All I care about is that when GM's bones get picked whoever buys Opel will finally bring the Speedster Turbo to America.



Very GRRRRRR baby!”

“
flypaper

Elvis

Kabuki

doorknob

”

“FYi I am so going shopping at walmart duning my lunch.

try and stop me!!!



I will post a trip report once I arrive back to my office....”

“someone did that here a few years back, complete with pics. It was a hoot.”

“hmm no pics...sorry.

find it and post it. i could use a laugh!”

“hyway, you are drinking the cool-aid.

No, hell no, I wasn't pricing horses and buggies. Yes, people will still buy cars. Yes, Ford probably will come out stronger, but it doesn't have jack schidt to do with Union activity, it has to do with globalization.

But, if you thing GM and Crysler were going to make it through without help, you are living a pipe dream.

If you think all the car workers in the South were going to keep their jobs, you are smoking crack.

Mis management sure put them in the dumpster. Union wages (of which you continually rail against) weren't the backbreaker.

It was the health care packages they bargained for several years ago that broke the camels back.

Of course, you guys will continue to live in the sand and declare that spiraling health care costs are ALL the fault of lawyers. Never mind your Republican Doctor buddies all make a boat load of money. Doctors blame it all on the lawyers because they have to pay malpractice claims. They think it ought to be a do over when they sew up a pair of scissors in someone's chest and they puncture the poor sap's aorta...or, even better, they think human life is only worth a few bucks.

I am not an economist....don't claim to be. But I don't think for a second that the Insurance, Banking and Auto Industry would have "corrected" itself without massive intervention.

The wailing, crying and gnashing of teeth over the bailout pales in comparison to what you guys would have been crying about if we had skid right off the blocks into a Depression.
last edited: 5/29/09 9:07:41 AM”

“I never said chrysler or GM would have made it through. In fact I was almost 100% sure chrysler would fail. GM was 50/50.

I don't know why people who defend Unions always think those of us who oppose them are all about what Union wage rates are. I could care less what they pay them. I just think its bull #&%!$ that I should have to pay a bunch of criminals the right to work for a bunch of incompetents. I hate how they specialize jobs so that only someone with a particular union rating can do that job, when its obvious that someone trained in a similar skill could do it as well. I think its a crime for people to attack people who cross union strike lines to get work. My list of anti-union sentiments goes way beyond salary.

The truth is that you don't know any more what would have happened to the auto industry with out the bailouts than anyone else. Your scenario has just as much chance to be wrong (probably more of a chance) than it does of being right.

Oh oh, theirs that Depression boogeyman again. better bring your children inside or the depressionman will get you.

Talking about gnashing your teeth, there will be plenty of that when the real long term results of Obama's spending spree comes home to roost.”

“Foreign car brands operating in the US do not have the numbers of retired workers domestic brands do ----

Even if they had comparable pension plans, they simply haven't been here as long.”

“At least Haliburton didn't need a bailout.”

“Thats true, maybe union workers retire too early. I hope the new companies set high retirement ages.”

“85 should be optimum.”

“If it wasn't for Unions, drunkO and t*lty would be making minimum wage.”

“dang, you are a hard case chili. maybe something in the late 70's :)”

“WalMart has plenty of openings for old folks.

Someone has to be the "Hi, welcome to WalMart person".”

“do you know what the average retiremnet age is for GM workers”

“Whatever GM agreed to, I suppose.”

“Did a lot of my shopping at walmart today.”

“yep, and thats one of the reasons they are folding up shop. I love on the one hand you guys like to say its what they contractually agreed to, but when the consequences come due, they need a bail out.”

“consequences come due, they need a bail out

CA is a good example, LOL.”

“Let's just have the government pay everyone to live here in Amerika...I mean it's free money, right?

WOOHOO!”

“hyway, I don't say they needed help because of management, or union, or any other internal reason.

I said they needed help because the alternative of letting them just go belly up would cost more than the bailout.”

“Wal-Mart is anti-American, and will use litigation against any town in the US to get what they want.
Don't shop Wal-Mart.”

“They don't always win.”

“walmart doesn't need to be bailed out”

“Someone has to be the "Hi, welcome to WalMart person".

Yeah, like Dick Chaney.”

“Now that's funny.”

“jeeez -----”

“are we still playing this game? LOL!”

“The Messiah's Useful Idiots”

“Hey Tom Stovieyer, it's Saturday afternoon , you finished white washin' that roof?”

“Look what I just baught at the evil Wal Mart!!



Banzai Falls Splash Blast Lagoon Waterslide

Splash Blast Lagoon is the perfect introduction to the wet and wild fun of Banzai Falls. Scale the climbing wall and slide through the water-spraying arch into the connected splash pool.

i'm gonna beat the heat while thinking about all the tiny chinese hands that assembled this”

“sweet party at your house.

I am going to buy a case of oil

see I can be just as evil...”

“Oil? Pudding or Jello would be much better...

'32oz”

“D.O.R.K., will you be so kind as to pick up some bullets for me?

thanks”

“Do bullets with Crisco go Faster??”

“You betchya!

And best of all bullets lubed with Crisco are both kosher and halal so your shooting victim won't have to worry about going to hell.”

“er....   unless he was already going to Hell for other reasons, ....”