Wal-mart is awesome,especially in these tough economic times. And their $4 prescriptions are a godsend for many.It's funny that as much as unions despise them,and are trying to put it out of business by unionizing the store,they do most of their shopping there. Keep fighting those union thugs,Wally
Conservative2TheCore
· 2 months ago
Hey, check this out.... The most recent health care bill includes a provision for pre-existing conditions....(how you can insure someone for a reasonable premium when they have a pre-existing condition is beyond me....it's like getting car insurance after you've had an accident.), but, here's how the democrats can claim it will lower costs....THERE'S A SIX MONTH WAITING PERIOD!!! so, if you're diagnosed with a clogged artery in your heart, and need a bypass, you can get insurance....IN SIX MONTHS!!!! Maybe they should rename the "Death Panels" and call them "Death Watches", because most people left untreated for six months won't be around when they're finally eligible for insurance. But, the bill will be heralded by the media because it provides insurance for uninsurables....kinda like telling a guy who's drowning you'll be back tomorrow with a life raft.
educatedcoma
· 2 months ago
Wal-Mart???? The same gigantic company that's slogan was "made in America" and we are for the community???? The super store that told it's customers a couple years ago..."sorry, christmas lay-a-way costs us too much money...so you poor people who need this service will have to just suffer?
That Wal-mart? Why would they have a philanthropic viewpoint to really help? As you mentioned, half of their employees are currently on subsidized healthcare.
I have boycotted Wal-mart since they stopped lay-a-way of all my Christmas shopping and 90% of my other needs. There are still plenty of other stores to choose from.
bertcj1
· 2 months ago
The same Wal-mart that puts more people to work than Obamanomics ever will. Why do you need lay-aways.? Just save the money to buy it,or don't you have the discipline to do that.It's why people like you need the gov't to tell you what to do with your money!!
Conservative2TheCore
· 2 months ago
Lat time I checked, Walmart didn't charge premium for abortions, either....but the Pelosi health care bill does!!!
So elective abortions under the healthcare plan would be covered, I have no issue with that.
Maybe you have no problem with the crack babies and unwanted pregnancies adding to the rolls of the welfare system. You go you "social conservative". How about putting some funding into contraceptives instead of those BS abstinence programs? "Just say no".
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Either we go with abortions or we don't. It is really hard to see in this day and age that they are not going to happen. Making them illegal would only drive us back into the 1960s and then things would get really bad. I mean that in the sense that people would be resorting to illegal procedures.
From my personal experiences, no one in my family or any of my friends have had one. I would find it hard to be against something that does not affect me or my close relations. This is not like drunk driving where someone can adversely affect my family from the outside. I see abortion as a choice and I know that many people don't see it that way. BUT those people making that claim are never in the situation of making that choice. Hey, if we could make liquor illegal then there would never be any drunk drivers and then I would never have to worry about driving on the highway. I'd be all for that!
Lets looks at things this way, the conservatives what to have a say in how abortion is dealed with in that there should be none. They do this regardless of their situation in life and want to impose this choice on everyone. We are now looking at a healthcare situation where the democrats want to impose insurance on everyone but the same "anti-abortion" conservatives don't want that. So the question is, who can impose on who?
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I would like to see everyone have some level of healthcare so that they can get regular check ups and be prescribes meds to keep them healthy. I hate going into public places knowing that there are sick people there. I see this as a more important issue than abortion. It would help keep me and my kids healthy by not being introduced to sickness because someone did not have coverage. To me this is more important than any abortion issue.
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Something that does hit home with me is cancer. Both my wife and her mother passed away from cancer. How about more money for cancer research and management? There are probably more people involved with cancer than abortions on a daily basis. If a Walmart (large co-op) solution provided people with a better cancer management solution, I would be all for that.
Abortions might be a talking point for a political agenda, but cancer is something that everyone has to deal with. If you think about it, everyone knows someone that has been affected by cancer.
sillybilly14
· 2 months ago
Wal-mart gets such a bad rap for destroying local businesses. Please answer me this. What is so good about local businesses? Do they provide good value? good selection? do they provide good service? are they good employers? Why do people perpetuate this norman rockwell myth of great local businesses? Walmart is the real american success story and we should admire it.
kat333
· 2 months ago
Local businesses can't afford to keep up with the prices and value that Wal-Mart offers. Plus, Wal-Mart gets extreme discounts from vendors for any decent products carried.
When Wal-Mart first became popular, their slogan was "Proudly made in the USA". Show me any of their products that bear that slogan now. Wal-mart is infamous for buying goods produced offshore and paying people disgustingly low wages to make them. The end result is crappy goods that don't last long. People buy this crap because they perceive it to be a good value because it's cheap. Yes, Sam Walton was a smart businessman to pick up on this fact.
I'd rather pay 10 times more for a good quality product that's going to last more than a few months than a piece of junk from Wal-Mart.
MassMiddleMan
· 2 months ago
Agree - walmart has left its core beliefs behind...
jmeister_1
· 2 months ago
Sam Walton is the epitome of capitalism. There is no way in hell that any conservative would knock this company.
This is the ideal republican situation. A successful large company that employees local yocal townsfolk and then not affording them the opportunities they should get for being employees. Sounds very much like a repeat of the industrial age when the mill workers were not provided any benefits. Do we ever learn from history? I don't think what we are seeing today is something that Sam Walton wanted.
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The most recent health care bill includes a provision for pre-existing conditions....(how you can insure someone for a reasonable premium when they have a pre-existing condition is beyond me....it's like getting car insurance after you've had an accident.), but, here's how the democrats can claim it will lower costs....THERE'S A SIX MONTH WAITING PERIOD!!! so, if you're diagnosed with a clogged artery in your heart, and need a bypass, you can get insurance....IN SIX MONTHS!!!! Maybe they should rename the "Death Panels" and call them "Death Watches", because most people left untreated for six months won't be around when they're finally eligible for insurance.
But, the bill will be heralded by the media because it provides insurance for uninsurables....kinda like telling a guy who's drowning you'll be back tomorrow with a life raft.
The super store that told it's customers a couple years ago..."sorry, christmas lay-a-way costs us too much money...so you poor people who need this service will have to just suffer?
That Wal-mart? Why would they have a philanthropic viewpoint to really help? As you mentioned, half of their employees are currently on subsidized healthcare.
I have boycotted Wal-mart since they stopped lay-a-way of all my Christmas shopping and 90% of my other needs. There are still plenty of other stores to choose from.
http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=666
Maybe you have no problem with the crack babies and unwanted pregnancies adding to the rolls of the welfare system. You go you "social conservative". How about putting some funding into contraceptives instead of those BS abstinence programs? "Just say no".
---
Either we go with abortions or we don't. It is really hard to see in this day and age that they are not going to happen. Making them illegal would only drive us back into the 1960s and then things would get really bad. I mean that in the sense that people would be resorting to illegal procedures.
From my personal experiences, no one in my family or any of my friends have had one. I would find it hard to be against something that does not affect me or my close relations. This is not like drunk driving where someone can adversely affect my family from the outside. I see abortion as a choice and I know that many people don't see it that way. BUT those people making that claim are never in the situation of making that choice. Hey, if we could make liquor illegal then there would never be any drunk drivers and then I would never have to worry about driving on the highway. I'd be all for that!
Lets looks at things this way, the conservatives what to have a say in how abortion is dealed with in that there should be none. They do this regardless of their situation in life and want to impose this choice on everyone. We are now looking at a healthcare situation where the democrats want to impose insurance on everyone but the same "anti-abortion" conservatives don't want that. So the question is, who can impose on who?
----
I would like to see everyone have some level of healthcare so that they can get regular check ups and be prescribes meds to keep them healthy. I hate going into public places knowing that there are sick people there. I see this as a more important issue than abortion. It would help keep me and my kids healthy by not being introduced to sickness because someone did not have coverage. To me this is more important than any abortion issue.
---
Something that does hit home with me is cancer. Both my wife and her mother passed away from cancer. How about more money for cancer research and management? There are probably more people involved with cancer than abortions on a daily basis. If a Walmart (large co-op) solution provided people with a better cancer management solution, I would be all for that.
Abortions might be a talking point for a political agenda, but cancer is something that everyone has to deal with. If you think about it, everyone knows someone that has been affected by cancer.
When Wal-Mart first became popular, their slogan was "Proudly made in the USA". Show me any of their products that bear that slogan now. Wal-mart is infamous for buying goods produced offshore and paying people disgustingly low wages to make them. The end result is crappy goods that don't last long. People buy this crap because they perceive it to be a good value because it's cheap. Yes, Sam Walton was a smart businessman to pick up on this fact.
I'd rather pay 10 times more for a good quality product that's going to last more than a few months than a piece of junk from Wal-Mart.
This is the ideal republican situation. A successful large company that employees local yocal townsfolk and then not affording them the opportunities they should get for being employees. Sounds very much like a repeat of the industrial age when the mill workers were not provided any benefits. Do we ever learn from history? I don't think what we are seeing today is something that Sam Walton wanted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton