VAW: Apple Should Ignore the Nuts at Wal-Mart Watch

I recently wrote an article advising Apple to ignore the nuts at Greenpeace, a leftist organization attacking Apple because they don't like big corporations. Another nutball organization, Wal-Mart Watch, is urging Apple not do to do business with Wal-Mart, America's largest retailer. Here is a quote from their anti-Wal-Mart/Apple site:

These nutballs exist for the sole purpose of bringing down Wal-Mart. They don't have an altruistic agenda like Greenpeace, but they do share Greenpeace's hatred for the free market. What is the crux of the argument these people spew from their hate-filled lips? Apple should not do business with Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart exploits employees and their neighbors.

Let's examine this silly organization that believes Wal-Mart is successful because it exploits workers. I wonder how Wal-Mart Watch can sit there with a straight face and proclaim that the thousands of employees working at Wal-Mart are so powerless that they are going to allow themselves to be trampled by this big, evil corporation? We don't have a class system here in the United States. Employees are free to work or not to work at Wal-Mart. In fact, there are thousands of people working at Wal-Mart who love their job and make a great income. Unfortunately, wherever a large pool of blue-collar workers exist, unions, fostered by nutballs like Wal-Mart Watch, will try to stir up trouble.

Unions are pretty much a joke in the United States. Union bosses earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. They rape their members for funds, donate those funds to liberal organizations and political campaigns, and basically push American companies so far in the red that many are forced to relocate overseas in order to stay competitive. Wal-Mart Watch is in bed with the unions. Organizations like Wal-Mart Watch love to blackmail large corporations and their shareholders for blood money. Wal-Mart Watch is shameful and Apple should stand against them.

Wal-Mart has created the greatest distribution chain the United States has ever known. They efficiently bring massive amounts of goods to the market. Lower income Americans have benefited tremendously from their efforts. Wal-Mart has done more to raise the standard of living for average Americans than any other company, organization, or government entity in the history of the United States. Consider how inefficient government entities handle distribution. One only has to look at the debacle of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Government can barely handle giving out bottles of water. By the way, where do you think many of the supplies coming into New Orleans came from? Organizations like Wal-Mart are the only organs the government has to fall back on in times of crisis. Government can't effectively perform distribution.

Wal-Mart Watch is a silly organization, based on special interest, funded mainly by unions looking to fill their coffers. Apple should ignore these nutballs. They would be wise to work any deal possible with the giant retailer and get iTunes cards, iPods, or whatever else possible into the hands of as many Americans as possible for "Always Low Prices!"

Comments:

"...and basically push American companies so far in the red that many are forced to relocate overseas in order to stay competitive"?

Those poor corporations. What will they do? Certainly not move all their profits off-shore so that corporate taxation is at it´s lowest point since the depression.

What are you nuts? I don´t suppose you´ve looked at the standard of living for lower income people. Real wages have gone down while the CEOs incomes have inflated to ridiculous levels.

You´re insane obsession with consuming huge amounts of cheap useless crap already means that China damn near owns you already. Keep shopping with nothing more than the lowest price as your ultimate concern and you will see that you´ve "free-marketed" yourself into irrelevance as a nation.

wtf on Monday, November 06, 2006 at 03:47

I have to disagree with you, my good man. First, consumption is the hallmark of the free market; second, countries like China cannot produce goods and sell them cheaply to US consumers without a cost to their own citizenry. That is not how it works, buddy. Take a basic class in economics..PLEASE. Finally, corporations don´t concern me either, nor does their ability to earn profit concern me. What bothers me is the effect on the American worker that anti-business groups will eventually have on the American worker. I have to agree with Hookerman. People like you want to steal from honest companies.

@wtf on Monday, November 06, 2006 at 10:28

WTF sounds like a French fry. No wonder he is so bitter, his pathetic nation can barely employ 80% of its workers. The US has 96% employment. WTF is jealous of the US. Sad...so sad...

Jeff on Monday, November 06, 2006 at 10:35

Would everyone please play nice? Thanks!

Vectronic on Monday, November 06, 2006 at 10:56

I just can´t understand why anyone would have it in for Wal-Mart. It is a great company. I have an Aunt who works in their corporate office in Benton, AR. She drives a new car every other year. Wal-Mart Watch is nutty. Steve Jobs should do everything possible to get his products placed on Wal-Mart shelves.

Carol on Monday, November 06, 2006 at 11:25

WTF is what I would call a "useful idiot". He obviously believes, whole-heatedly, what he said in the above comment, but he is unfortunately ignorant of how the economy works. China no more owns the US now than the Japanese did in the 1980s. That nonsense is just union propaganda. Wouldn´t it be nice if a country like China dedicated its whole existence to producing cheap products for Americans to enjoy, while Americans went about their lives working in high-paying white collar jobs or working in high-tech industries? Unfortunately WTF, there is a cost China will have to pay for using its resources that way. They will miss out on opportunities Americans seize because our people are freed from the production line. You really need to study some economics. I don´t think you really understand how the free market works.

Kris Hookerman on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 at 10:16

Yep, most people who support groups like Walmart Watch don´t have a clue about economics. I agree that Apple should ignore these fools.

Devin on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 at 10:19

I support Walmart Watch because I support the American worker. Frankly, I am offended that you show so little regard for your fellow Americans that you support Walmart and its destructive business practices. Shame on you, Hookerman!

Free American on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:46

This is great. A real bunch of American idiots! You have no idea at all about Economics and the global stage. The mantra that everything American is great is sooo over but you just don´t realise it yet. Wal-Mart is symptomatic of the uniform mono-culture that is unfortunately destroying diversity across the globe. What you don´t realise is that you lot can push all this crap out but more and more people who do not share your views, and let me tell you that is the majoirty, are being turned off your macho style and want goods and services that are local and different. Wal Mart sucks and your views are so out dated.

Ensete on Sunday, December 03, 2006 at 18:50

"Cultural diversity" is a buzz word for trade protectionism. Local companies that can´t compete try to keep foreigners out by crying that nonsense. It doesn´t work in America because we let everyone in and we expect the same from other countries. I find it interesting that the "cultural diversity" nonsense is now leveled against American corporations. Hmmm…. I guess the world has forgotten how the Europeans colonized and conquered half the world, turning millions into slaves. America only wants to be able to sell products in your country. Hmmm….. Yep, the “cultural diversity” argument is nonsense.

Lowballer on Sunday, December 03, 2006 at 23:06

I think all the Western countries have been guilty of not respecting 3rd world nations. However, I would much rather have the world dominated by the free-market than by nation states. Citizens of all countries should be free to trade in all other countries. Let the best product win!

Kevin G. on Sunday, December 03, 2006 at 23:57

Hookerman, please, if you are going to publish your opinions in a forum in which you have the power to influence many readers, please do us all the courtesy of learning of that which you write about. Let me help.

"Wal-Mart has done more to raise the standard of living for average Americans than any other company, organization, or government entity in the history of the United States"
According to EVERY economic report and evaluation, earning power and the standard of living has declined in the US since the 1970´s.

From the Encyclopedia of American History:
"The distribution of income by size has been roughly the same in the United States as in most Western European nations for which data are available. Just before the Civil War, the richest 5 percent of U.S. families probably had about eight times as much income per family as the remaining 95 percent. There does not seem to have been any major change until after the 1920s, when the degree of inequality diminished somewhat, the rich losing and the poor gaining, in relative terms. By the 1950s, the richest 5 percent had about five times the income per family of the remaining 95 percent. From then to the mid-1970s, the distribution was rather stable, those in the middle-income groups gaining slightly at the expense of both rich and poor. After the 1970s, the distribution began to widen, with working families facing an increasingly declining standard of living. Beginning with the administration of President Ronald Reagan (1980–1988), and due in substantial part to his policies, the income disparity between the richest and poorest Americans has widened significantly. Weakened labor laws and the exploitation of unprotected immigrants have fueled this disparity and pushed a greater share of the nation´s wealth upward to the top five percent, while the bottom third or more have experienced a decline in its standard of living."

Ralph on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 18:31

Ralph...what are you talking about? "EVERY" report? You seriously think the US standard of living has declined since the 1970s, a period where stagnation and inflation were rampant? Are you crazy? I happen to know for a fact that is incorrect. What you have put in your post is not some kind of unbiased fact- based source to prove your point. Your posting is so crazy that I am almost apt to believe you made the whole source thing up. If not, remind me to steer clear of anything printed in the "Encyclopedia of American History". I find it hard to believe that anyone really buys your argument. Furthermore, I think Hookerman is correct when he says that the Unions use this type of propaganda to try to attract members to their dwindling organizations.

Devin on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 14:23

You go, Kris!!

I couldn´t have said it better, myself!

JB

Jim Bunch on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 16:40

You neo-conservatives...You´re just a bunch of ego-maniac bullies!

IckyThump on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 13:35