In Evil Corporate Empire News
Jay sent WalMart is Pure Evil over, which is an excerpt from James Hightower's book, "Thieves in High Places". It details just how utterly destructive WalMart really is.

Here's a sample for you to get your blood pressure up over.

* This company [WalMart] holds the record for the most suits filed against it by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A lawyer from "Business Week" (not exactly the bastion for supporting Labor) said, "I have never seen this kind of blatant disregard for the law." They had to pay $750,000.00 in Arizona for blatant discrimination against the disabled! The judge was so incensed that he also order them to run commercials admitting their guilt.

* The National Labor Relations Board has issued over 40 formal complaints against the corporation in 25 different states in just the past five years. The NLRB's top lawyer believed that their labor violations, such as Illegal spying on employees, fraudulent record keeping, falsifying time cards to avoid paying overtime, threats, illegal firings for union organizing etc., were so widespread that he was looking into filing a very rare national complaint against the company. (The company contributed $2,159,330.00 to GW Bush and the GOP in 2000 and 2002. The NLRB attorney was replaced when President Bush took office.).

* Nearly 1 MILLION women are involved in the largest class-action suit every filed against a corporation. Although women make up over 65% of this corporations work force only 10% of them are managers. The women who have become store managers make $16,400 a year LESS then the men.

I will be adding a permanent link to the page and may pull excerpts from it as time goes on just to remind people of how truly terrible WalMart is to the continued health of the US economy. I stopped shopping there years ago and would highly recommend passing along the word to everyone you know. It probably won't slow them down but at least you'll be able to sleep better at night knowing that you aren't supporting a corporate cancer that will eat out the heart of America.