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Read these numbers, they will blow your mind.

wade

wade

Save The Humans
I'm a business man just like Sam Walton, I think his income statement looks different than mine.

Comparing Walmart success to the US Government-run failures. Interesting to the last note.



1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private Employer, and most speak English.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 Years ago.

11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur At a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.

You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to Fix the economy.



This should be read and understood by all Americans

Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!


To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,

It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:

* The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
* Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
* Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
* War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
* Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
* Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
* The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.


You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
 
good read...kind of makes your blood boil a bit though, hey?

i'm not American, but those are some crazy numbers. and it's not much different up here in canada either.
 
You must spread rep....blahblahblah....

I totally agree with this. We should have real business men and women running the government. Not lawyers and crooks trying to pay each other off while the country that we love goes the way of rome.
 
bkelm18 said:
So can we bring Sam Walton back and elect him president?
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Wouldn't that be interesting... Though if you asked him, he probably wouldn't want the job. I know I wouldn't want to have to fix the problems that are being caused right now and have been caused in the past that are just festering sores on the backside of America.
 
wade said:
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* The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
* Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
* Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
* War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
* Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
* Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
* The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.


You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
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This I have asked so many times on so many boards and to so many people in real life and have yet to have ANYONE give a valid reason to believe they will get it right this time!
 
wade said:
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to Fix the economy.

This should be read and understood by all Americans

Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
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Wal-Marts secret to success is simple in my opinion. Americans borrow huge sums of money to spend on cheap foreign products there. Wal-Mart is living off of the Americans borrowed money.

I'm suggesting that MAYBE we have already hired the guys who run WAL-Mart to Fix the economy?
 
Well I gotta tell you, times are tough, but I have never borrowed money to shop at WalMart. Now I'll admit, I'm pretty rich, I steal from the poor you know. But just the same the poor still shop at WalMart, I see them there all the time. Maybe I"m not getting enough of their money.
 
You're right, the US government just screws everything they touch up. We should all move to Somalia, where we can make our own laws!
 
Lets bring the count in and see what he says.
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Wow, he is speachless.
 
wade said:
Well I gotta tell you, times are tough, but I have never borrowed money to shop at WalMart. Now I'll admit, I'm pretty rich, I steal from the poor you know. But just the same the poor still shop at WalMart, I see them there all the time. Maybe I"m not getting enough of their money.
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I was talking about America in general. I hope I didn't come across as if I was speaking about you directly. I just think we have been living on borrowed money for many many years now. For example most of the growth during the Bush years was from the housing, building sector. Construction was a good business to be in during this housing boom. People made a good living in most of the construction sector because they were living off all the debt being accumulated by home owners/buyers. It was made possible by liar loans, home equity lines of credit, falsely inflated housing prices and mortgage backed securities ect. ect. During the boom we praised to gods of banking, at the alter of debt, for making this boom possible, and allowing us these good paying jobs. Looking back maybe all those debt based construction jobs weren't such a good idea? Maybe the market is trying to balance it now? My point is just because it's a booming business doesn't mean it was good for the country or the market.

I think I get your point and I agree government control makes things unbalanced. I just wonder how long the Wal-Mart model can sustain itself here in the states, and what kind of systemic fall out there will be?
 
Austin I didn’t expect to agree with you but I do on many points. There were some big mistakes made by the banks and the building industry over the last decade. But it was not all a lie. There was a real building boom, with real people buying and living in those houses. Now some of those loans should not have been made, no question. But those people have been weeded out over the last few years. Those houses have been foreclosed on and resold at a loss to the banks.

Many people who don’t kneel at the alter of debt made very good money during that decade. I was one. I have spent my entire life staying out of debt. It is one of my highest priorities. That does not say that I don’t borrow money or borrowing is bad because that is not the case. I borrowed a lot of money and I have invested it wisely and repaid all of those loans. I built several homes on speculation over the last decade and have sold all of them at a substantial profit.

What WalMart has done better than anyone else is to buy in volume and sell in volume at a very low margin. For Walmart to stay in business they need to operate at incredible efficiency. No wasted movements. This is something they have done better than any one else has ever done.

Why can’t the post office operate at a profit like UPS and Fed Ex? One very good reason is because they don’t need to. They are not a for profit business. It doesn’t matter if they waste money. It doesn’t matter if they move slowly. If they need more money they will just raise the price of a stamp. I mean it’s not like their customers are going to quit using the mail. It is the same with any government run “business”. The government has no place in business. Should never have been there to begin with.

Name one single operation, function, enterprise, where the government is doing a better job than the private sector. I don’t need to wait for your answer because you and I both know there are none. I don’t want their input in my health care. I don’t care who pays for it, I don’t want their help.
 
this is slightly off topic now, but i just thought i'd throw it out there.

i wonder how walmart can sell things at such a low margin. i'm saying this because, a nearby walmart shut down the self checkouts for awhile, and when my boyfriend asked why, they said that nearly ONE MILLION DOLLARS from that store ALONE in the last YEAR went missing in inventory, so they attributed it to theft probably due to the self-checkouts.

they are now open again, but there are a whole bunch of employees staring down at you while you're trying to buy your deodorant and toothpaste or whatever.
 
I think that comparing Wal-mart to services that are run by the government is wrong.
Wal-mart's goal is to make profit, and they are night un-limited in the ways to get there.
Services that are developed with government funding means that there's -alot- of interference from the government to limit costs in a way that will make said services available to most if not all citizens.

There's a vast difference, one which I don't have time to talk about right now... but you can't compare the two, you just can't. There's a reason why -globally-, the most successful enterprises are not linked to governments.
 
There we go, now I actually have a bit of time.
The comparison to Wal-mart kind of irks me... generally speaking, I don't like it when propaganda such as this one is being used... it is a cheap way to rally people to shout things that have no anchor in reality.

Government funded organizations are a paradox- on the one hand they are suppose to act just like any business, and -should- be supported by the government.
However, what happens is that the government originally created it for the people's use- so it limits their ability to set prices.
The government also makes use of those services in a taxing way, paying very little for it.
Now, since it is government funded- the salary is pretty much set, regardless as to how efficient the organization is.
So why should they strive for anything?
Especially as sometimes the government puts severe limits to any potential competition(though I imagine it is less common in the US)

Had the USPS been a private business it is quite possible that it would have declared bankruptcy because the profit they can get from this kind of activity is not worth their while.

Microsoft, Wal-mart and most other enterprises owned by people rather than governments steer their company as best they can -to make profit-, that's it... their existence is not dictated by law, they are not hindered and are generally free to set prices for merchandise as they deem fit (it's a tad more complicated than just that for the competition in the market, but the competition will always set a price where there's profit for the companies... else they would all collapse).

Regardless of how you feel about the Bil... don't fall prey to such cheap tricks.

The postal service and many other establishments that are funded by governments are usually inefficient- it's true here, at the US, and in many other democratic, humane countries.

It's not a problem that has a "quick fix", if you have a better, solid way to correct this- I am sure there will be plenty of eager ears to hear you out.
 
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