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Wal-Mart: Our shoppers are 'running out of money'

College professors can be wrong

they sure can

LOL!

THEY DONT KNOW !!!!

THEY SURE DON'T!!!

but one thing on which "the world's climatologists [were] agreed:" it's coming

the GLOBAL COOL

anyone over the age of 60 who pays attention to these things remembers, it was truly unforgettable

stay up
 
LOL!

you don't know what you're talking about

but you do...?.
your lean is undisclosed, does that mean you are secretly ashamed of your far right stance?
 
Wal-Mart: Our shoppers are 'running out of money'

What should Wallmart do to turn this all around? They could sell products for less. They could convince corporations to pay workers living wages, while starving their own workers with minimum wages. Any other Capitalist ideas? Like moving all their business to China?
 
I must not watch the right news, never heard of C. Rice being treated that way. Surely the right is more rabid in its approach....I mean, really, attacking the first lady over her efforts to improve the diets of the nations poor?

i've seen people criticize attempts to use the power of government to push healthy eating - it's not the feds job to tell me i have to eat an apple in between every twinkie. And I've seen people criticize her "the first tim i've ever been proud of my country" remark.

I've never seen anything approaching the bile and vitriol we've seen out of the left in the past few years. republians still try to police their extremes - democrats have largely embraced them.

Nationwide vandalism? Exaggerate much?

as a matter of fact i do not.

On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists...

The Wisconsin Grocers Association is bracing for the anti-Walker witch hunt. Anonymous operatives have circulated sabotage stickers on the Internet and around Wisconsin that single out Angel Soft tissue paper ("Wiping your (expletive) on Wisconsin workers"), Johnsonville Sausage ("These Brats Bust Unions") and Coors ("Labor Rights Flow Away Like A Mountain Stream"). Earlier this week, a "Stick It To Walker" website boasted photos of vandalized Angel Soft tissue packages at a Super Foodtown grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y.

This destruction of private property is illegal. Not that it matters to anti-Walker protest mobsters, who trampled Wisconsin's Capitol at an estimated $5 million in security, repair and cleaning costs to taxpayers. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The identity of the backers of the sticker effort is unknown, although many assume it is being orchestrated by public employee unions. This latest effort follows boycotts organized by members of the Wisconsin State Employees Union AFSCME 24."

AFSCME 24 is the same union affiliate that recently disseminated intimidation letters throughout southeast Wisconsin, demanding that local businesses support unions by putting up signs in their windows. The letter threatened not just Walker supporters, but any and all businesses that have chosen to sit on the sidelines and stay out of politics altogether: "Failure to do so will leave us no choice but (to) do a public boycott of your business...

now, the last time i checked - the only thing Republicans ever pulled the "with us or against us" card was a world-wide war against Islamist fundamentalism. not their domestic political opponents.

The TP thinks it elected "its own", time will tell.

indeed it well. the Ryan budget gives me hope.
 
College professors can be wrong, heck, ANY prof can be wrong.
now, the bolded part of your post......no, we don't have 10,000 years, it might be only 5,000 or as much 20,000.
THEY DONT KNOW !!!! The next line, "how carefully we MONITOR"....sounds like they are trying to justify another climate study so they can apply for grants and eventually tell us what we already know, that the climate changes, and over very long periods of time we get warm spells, and we get cold spells.
whoop de doodoo

I wonder...is there any evidence of climate change in other times in the earths history NOT caused by human beings? ;)
 
Wal-Mart: Our shoppers are 'running out of money'

What should Wallmart do to turn this all around?]/quote]

the last couple of years have seen businesses squeezing every last ounce of turnip blood out of productivity, there' snot much more there left to get.

They could sell products for less

walmart's margins are pretty thin - they depend on mass sale, not individual sales, for profit. they are unlikely to be able to lower prices enought to make a significant enough difference.

They could convince corporations to pay workers living wages, while starving their own workers with minimum wages. Any other Capitalist ideas? Like moving all their business to China?

it was the collapse of the tech bubble that really created the first giant push into globalization, so optimization of production and shipping is something they could look at. at this point, however, they are looking less at moving things out of the US and into China and more at moving operations out of China and into Vietnam and like nations.

but really? as big as Wal-Mart is, she can't take on the US government and win. :( as long as we continue to pursue economically destructive policies, Wal-Mart can only mitigate the effects as much as she can.
 
I wonder...is there any evidence of climate change in other times in the earths history NOT caused by human beings? ;)

no. in the late 1500's, for example, widespread adoption of cannon technology created a spike in temperatures that was even more sudden and profound than rises of the 1970-2000 era. and eons ago, greedy spear and atlatl corporations pushed us into the Ice Age.
 
yeah, poor Palin, she made a stupid remark and got called on it. Maybe she should turn down the rhetoric?

i'm sorry. but are you out of your god-dammed mind?
 
Have you heard of public transportation before? Or bicylces? Or those things at the bottom of your legs. The US uses 25% of the planet's oil. If were to decide to be less wasteful (like most of the rest of the world) demand would lower and so would prices.



The majority of drivers commute less than 40 miles each day.



You are not knowledgable about solar systems. I have a 1.5 KW solar panel system that will pay for itself in 7 years. The remainer of the 25 year life of the panels produces free electricity from the :sun !!!

{{sigh}} I want a president who says, "I'll do my best to make sure we have enough cheap energy that you can drive what you want and keep your homes at 72 degrees all yr long if you want. I don't give a hoot if other countries like it or not. My job is to serve you, the American people. We will start the process of using our own natural resources and we will start today".
Something like that anyway. I'm sick of a president who's idea of improving things is cramming us into socialized transportation, or onto bicycles. Our President should have bigger dreams than that for the country.
 
{{sigh}} I want a president who says, "I'll do my best to make sure we have enough cheap energy that you can drive what you want and keep your homes at 72 degrees all yr long if you want. I don't give a hoot if other countries like it or not. My job is to serve you, the American people. We will start the process of using our own natural resources and we will start today".
Something like that anyway. I'm sick of a president who's idea of improving things is cramming us into socialized transportation, or onto bicycles. Our President should have bigger dreams than that for the country.

Ohh, so you just want an idiot for president? You want one that says, "**** it, who cares if we run out of energy and hit peak oil soon? Let's just drill every resource we have out of the ground and wallow around it in ASAP because we're all a bunch of fat, lazy bastards that aren't happy unless they can fill up their 30-gallon tank that gets 8-miles per gallon for 30 bucks."

Even Bush was not that dumb. I think what you are dreaming of is a person that does not exist since it is not possible. Those kinds of resources do not exist, we cannot get to the resources fast enough to do what you want, and when we do get to them, we will barely pump out enough to affect world market prices.

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And can I :lamo at "socialized transportation".
 
I wonder...is there any evidence of climate change in other times in the earths history NOT caused by human beings? ;)

lots, and lots.....global warming has been a good thing, we wouldn't be here without it....
 
i've seen people criticize attempts to use the power of government to push healthy eating - it's not the feds job to tell me i have to eat an apple in between every twinkie. And I've seen people criticize her "the first tim i've ever been proud of my country" remark.

I've never seen anything approaching the bile and vitriol we've seen out of the left in the past few years. republians still try to police their extremes - democrats have largely embraced them.



as a matter of fact i do not.



now, the last time i checked - the only thing Republicans ever pulled the "with us or against us" card was a world-wide war against Islamist fundamentalism. not their domestic political opponents.



indeed it well. the Ryan budget gives me hope.

On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists...

your link is broken, and whatever it says will not measure up to "nationwide vandalism"....and yes, you do exaggerate, either that or you lie, take your pick.
 
cpwill said:
your source says "cities and suburbs", but mass-transit is only really plausible in cities, and between large cities that sees regular commuter traffic. internal to large cities yes. parts of the heavily urbanized north east yes. the suburbs, no.
A lot of the 'white flight' may live in the suburbs, but they work in the city. A 12 mile stretch of freeway in Houston was recently widened from 11 lanes to 18 (suburbs to the city) at a cost of almost 3 billion dollars.

cpwill said:
the notion that mass transit is somehow the "ticket to winning the future"? it would be laughable if only it's idiot adherents were'nt so serious.
No one said it would be the "ticket to winning the future", but it sure helps in the overall scheme of things when you're moving multiples of people on the same amount of fuel as moving one person.


cpwill said:
we don't suggest that we do. we suggest that we fully utilize our own energy resources, and let the market come up with alternatives as the demand arises.
While you're hanging around waiting for corporate to come to your aid (like they give a crap about your high gas prices...LOL) and come up with alternatives, how high can you let gas get before you cry uncle? $6, $7, $8? Some are crying now at $4. So much so, that their calling on the dreaded, hated, socialist president to do something now.
 
lots, and lots.....global warming has been a good thing, we wouldn't be here without it....

I hear ya. Its almost like we never had the first few ice ages...or warming periods...and dry lake beds would probably indicate that climate in a closed ecosystem tends to shift and change with fairly consistent regularity...
 
On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists...

your link is broken, and whatever it says will not measure up to "nationwide vandalism"....and yes, you do exaggerate, either that or you lie, take your pick.

I wonder if those same left wing vigilantes will target the governors of New York and Massachusetts for also realizing that union costs and spending are bankrupting their states.
 
i'm sorry. but are you out of your god-dammed mind?

yes, you are sorry...and no, I am not out of my mind. Inflammatory rhetoric is bad no matter the source.
 
shintao said:
How high does the price of gasoline have to get before it is a cure-all? Does $15. a gallon scare you onto mass transit? Maybe $5.00 and hour parking? At what point does your machine become the supplemental assist?
I don't believe that it will ever be a cure-all, it will merely work in conjunction with other means to reduce our oil consumption. Mass transit will never meet the needs of everyone, but the more people we can move on the same amount of fuel, the less we will have to depend on fossil fuels.

Mass transit becomes supplemental the moment it is built.

Opponents keep trying to point out that mass transit isn't perfect. I agree, it isn't, but the further we get away from transportation that carries one person 15 miles on one gallon of fuel the better our fuel future will be. It matters not if that transportation is a train, bus, motorcycle, high mileage vehicle, carpool, bicycle.
 
{{sigh}} I want a president who says, "I'll do my best to make sure we have enough cheap energy that you can drive what you want and keep your homes at 72 degrees all yr long if you want. I don't give a hoot if other countries like it or not. My job is to serve you, the American people. We will start the process of using our own natural resources and we will start today".
Something like that anyway. I'm sick of a president who's idea of improving things is cramming us into socialized transportation, or onto bicycles. Our President should have bigger dreams than that for the country.

Naiive.....you want what you want regardless of costs to others.....oil companies are subsidized to the tune of $4 billion, with taxpayer dollars, while they make many more billions in profit, per quarter.
Oh, and soldiers die....for oil.
 
Ahhhhhhhhh... the smell of Jimmy Carter II in the air.

It's nice Jimmy the Second has had a laser-like focus on the economy.

.

You are totally clueless and just another revisionist rewriting history. Jimmy Carter inherited high gas prices and inflation from Nixon/Ford. Remember the Arab oil embargo during Nixon's term causing gas prices to quadruple and Nixon's famous wage and price freeze to combat inflation that actually made inflation worse? Jimmy Carter came up with a comprehensive energy policy that Reagan instantly scrapped when oil company profits started to suffer. These are facts that ignorant right wingers always ignore.
 
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On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists...

your link is broken, and whatever it says will not measure up to "nationwide vandalism"....and yes, you do exaggerate, either that or you lie, take your pick.

actually yes, in fact, it is vandalism to disfigure or mar property that does not belong to you. as for the link?

a google search away. even the unions are ("officially") disavowing these guys.
 
cpwill said:
snopes confirms the loan was approved, and merely points out that Obama wasn't responsible - bureacrats were. it's still "our" money they're loaning - hence the "we" that you questioned.
I guess you didn't get very far in reading the snopes article, because it said...
Despite the claim that money committed to Petrobras is "taxpayer dollars," Ex-Im notes that "the vast majority of our financing consists of guarantees of loans made by commercial lenders," that "the bank is self-sustaining and does not receive any appropriated funds from Congress," and that "the bank's activities do not cost the taxpayer a dime."
 
So tell us why the free market hasn't put in mass transit? Tell us how capitalism has stopped the fall?

I believe the free market goes into action when something is wanted/needed/ and is profitable.
Mass transit is none of those things in most of the country.
What do you have against people being free to walk out of their homes, pull the car out of their garage and drive to their destination, independent of socialized transportation?
 
cpwill said:
...trashing Wisconsins' capital...

Thoroughly debunked by the person in charge of the upkeep of the Wisconsin capital.
 
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