In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers. Clinton has been endorsed for president by more than a dozen unions, according to her campaign Web site, which omits any reference to her role at Wal-Mart in its detailed biography of her. Wal-Mart’s anti-union efforts were headed by one of Clinton’s fellow board members, John Tate, a Wal-Mart executive vice president who also served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years.
Tate was fond of repeating, as he did at a managers meeting in 2004 after his retirement, what he said was his favorite phrase, “Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living.” A former board member told ABCNews.com that he had no recollection of Clinton defending unions during more than 20 board meetings held in private. The tapes show Clinton in the role of a loyal company woman. “I’m always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else,” she said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.
Is anyone surprised by this? Maybe this will help her with conservatives.
You guys have to understand James Hill.
Usually, he wears pink undies with frilly lace by choice. I assume it isn’t because he washed his white ones with a cheap ass red shirt.
#40 Mr. Cat-Poop
Well said!
# 29 James Hill said, There’s a reason your side doesn’t get anything done, you know. f
You’re side got things done alright — ALL THE WRONG THINGS:
RECORED PORK; RECORD DEBT; ;RECORD TRADE DEFICITS; RISING POVERTY; CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE; UN-AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE; and
… and a THREE TRILLION dollar damned occupation of the wrong country.
Thanks GOP.
Some tv show interviewed “a voter” somewhere===lost their job, lost their health insurance, son was in Iraq, house in foreclosure==but they were going to vote republican because they are for right to life.
Now–given that no one at all is for making anyone have abortions UNLESS that person herself wants one===demographic of the perfect brain dead, voting against self-interest, typical republican.
Stoopid people deserve what they get–now why I am also in this boat again?
#44 Bobbo said “Stoopid people deserve what they get…”
That is what that Bone Head founding father Thomas Jefferson said…
What else did he and all the other bone head founding fathers say?
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
-Patrick Henry
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. ”
- Benjamin Franklin
Americans, the collective wisdom of average ignorance.
Cheers
Tihz–something must be getting lost in the sarcasm, but can’t tell if its from you or from me.
The Founding Fathers and myself are in agreement, and if only egotistically, don’t think our interests are boneheaded thoughts. No–I am instead complaining of what the forefathers warned us against.
Yep, the USA government IS too far from the people and the people don’t seem to be able to reign them in==across a wide latitude of conflicting interests. Somehow the “special interests/corporate interests” have their hooks in this government so deeply==sadly, only a revolution can get this nation back on track.
But I guess that is what every 10% group of like minded people think? I only ask==forget your “values”==what will actually work?
Actually, Hillary Clinton did try to push through a lot of pro-Union policies when she was at Wal-Mart, but she knew at the time that her chances were effectively zero at getting any reform enacted because of all the old stuffy rich men on the board.
#46 bobbo Yes, I was making a joke!!
If our founding fathers were here today…how many would tell them they were wrong and call them bone heads?
Sorry if you might have got the wrong idea as you and I are in complete agreement – people get what they deserve whether it is government or economy.
Cheers
Well Tihz—that is my point, with a twist. In a democracy that has gone off the rails with the Repuglican lies, what responsibility does the outvoted minority have? Not that much I think but to wait 4 years and try again. So, as in most/many things the ying/yang of it all needs to be untwisted.
Or do you disagree? Boneheads voted for BushCo, dems/liberal did not. How much of Bush do I deserve? Is the answer dependent on how much I did besides voting?–etc.
I think that notion of people “deserving” what they good sounds too much/too often like blaming the victims of violent crime. Germ of truth, but the violators are 95% responsible.
#49 Bobbo – Americans do not live in the best democratic society – they only think they do, because they have been told they are.
So yes, I agree with you!
Americans are the collective wisdom of average ignorance.
Here is something to ponder about. Look at the Democracy index list and see where GOUSA is positioned, 13th.
http://tinyurl.com/3ddjut
Now look at the Quality of Life index to see where GOUSA is positioned, 13th again!
http://tinyurl.com/2jzpgr
Interesting, yes?
Cheers
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