Someone ought to let the 99% know that Walmart is targeting the working man with yet another really rotten deed. After all, big corporations are what’s wrong with this world. They’ve got all the money and they don’t deserve it. When will government do something about them?!
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer and the biggest private employer in the U.S. with 1.4 million workers here, said Tuesday that it is rolling out a three-part plan to help jumpstart the sluggish U.S. economy.
The plan includes hiring more than 100,000 veterans in the next five years, spending $50 billion to buy more American-made merchandise in the next 10 years and helping its part-time workers move into full-time positions.
Capitalism and the private sector — that’s what’s hurting the working man. Workers unite! We need more government! Another “shovel ready” stimulus — that’s the ticket!
“We’ve developed a national paralysis that’s driven by all of us waiting for someone else to do something,” Bill Simon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart’s U.S. business, said Tuesday at an annual retail industry convention in New York. “The beauty of the private sector is that we don’t have to win an election, convince Congress or pass a bill to do what we think is right. We can simply move forward, doing what we know is right.”
