Comments on: Saint Wal-Mart? WTF? http://www.4thercrd.com/robfillo/20080212_saint-wal-mart-wtf/ Hyper-current News, Previews, and Urgent Thought on Vancouver and then, the World Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:27:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: RAF http://www.4thercrd.com/robfillo/20080212_saint-wal-mart-wtf/#comment-164 RAF Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:10:16 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/robfillo/20080212_saint-wal-mart-wtf/#comment-164 Kamal! You rule. I didn't even know about dead peasant insurance. Corporate America makes my tummy ache. The more i research the more I see ties between government corruption and the almighty dollar.... but I guess it wasn't that hard to see once I opened my eyes. Kamal! You rule. I didn’t even know about dead peasant insurance. Corporate America makes my tummy ache. The more i research the more I see ties between government corruption and the almighty dollar…. but I guess it wasn’t that hard to see once I opened my eyes.

]]> By: Kamal Arora http://www.4thercrd.com/robfillo/20080212_saint-wal-mart-wtf/#comment-145 Kamal Arora Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:22:42 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/robfillo/20080212_saint-wal-mart-wtf/#comment-145 Great article RAF. Not only does Wal-Mart engage in predatory pricing, it is anti-union and they are blatantly anti-rights (e.g. teenagers in Bangladesh working for $0.14 an hour for Wal-Mart supplier Beximco). Also, I believe its the single largest importer of foreign goods in the US. What's also disgusting is, Wal-Mart used to take out corporate-owned life insurance policies on low-level employees. This basically means that Wal-Mart took advantage of the deaths of their low-level employees by deducting the premiums according to tax law. This 'Dead Peasants Insurance' stopped in the mid '90s when the US federal government began pursuing Wal-Mart on this issue. I could go on and on here...I strongly encourage those interested to do some sleuthing on-line; you'll be shocked at what you find! Great article RAF. Not only does Wal-Mart engage in predatory pricing, it is anti-union and they are blatantly anti-rights (e.g. teenagers in Bangladesh working for $0.14 an hour for Wal-Mart supplier Beximco). Also, I believe its the single largest importer of foreign goods in the US.

What’s also disgusting is, Wal-Mart used to take out corporate-owned life insurance policies on low-level employees. This basically means that Wal-Mart took advantage of the deaths of their low-level employees by deducting the premiums according to tax law. This ‘Dead Peasants Insurance’ stopped in the mid ’90s when the US federal government began pursuing Wal-Mart on this issue.

I could go on and on here…I strongly encourage those interested to do some sleuthing on-line; you’ll be shocked at what you find!

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