Is Wal-Mart Destroying America?… 20 Facts About Wal-Mart You Probably Never Thought About

July 7th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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America absolutely loves Wal-Mart. 100 million customers visit
Wal-Mart every single week in this country. But is Wal-Mart good for
America? That is a question that most people never stop and ask. ~ Michael Snyder

Most
of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super
cheap merchandise, but the truth is that Wal-Mart is destroying America
in a lot of ways.

As you will see below, Wal-Mart has destroyed tens of
thousands of small businesses and countless manufacturing jobs over the
past couple of decades.

Wal-Mart has become a gigantic retail behemoth
that sells five times more stuff than any other retailer in the United
States. Unfortunately, about 85 percent of all the stuff sold at
Wal-Mart is made overseas.

What that is costing the U.S. economy in
terms of lost jobs and lost revenue is incalculable. But Wal-Mart is a
perfect example of where our economic system is headed.

Our economy is
becoming completely and totally dominated by highly centralized
monolithic predator corporations that ruthlessly crush all competition
and that will stoop to just about anything in order to cut costs.

In
the future, will we all be working for gigantic communal entities that
funnel all of the wealth and economic rewards to a very tiny elite?
That sounds very much like how communist China works, and red-blooded
Americans should want no part of that.

America is supposed to be about
free enterprise and competition and working together to build up this
country, and Wal-Mart is destroying all of that.

The following are 20 facts about Wal-Mart that will absolutely shock you…

#1 The average U.S. family now spends more than $4000 a year at Wal-Mart.

#2 In 2010, Wal-Mart had revenues of 421 billion dollars. That amount was greater than the GDP of 170 different countries including Norway, Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates.

#3 If Wal-Mart was a nation, it would have the 23rd largest GDP in the world.

#4 Wal-Mart now sells more groceries than anyone else in America does. In the United States today, one out of every four grocery dollars is spent at Wal-Mart.

#5 Amazingly, 100 million customers shop at Wal-Mart every single week.

#6 Wal-Mart has opened more than 1,100 “supercenters” since 2005 alone.

#7 Today, Wal-Mart has more than 2 million employees.

#8 If Wal-Mart was an army, it would be the second largest military on the planet behind China.

#9 Wal-Mart is the largest employer in 25 different U.S. states.

#10 According to the Economic Policy Institute, trade between Wal-Mart and China resulted in the loss of 133,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2006.

#11 The CEO of Wal-Mart makes more in a single hour than a full-time Wal-Mart associate makes in an entire year.

#12 Tens of thousands of Wal-Mart employees and their children are enrolled in Medicaid and are dependent on the government for healthcare.

#13 Between 2001 and 2007, the value of products that Wal-Mart imported from China grew from $9 billion to $27 billion.

#14 Sadly, about 85 percent of all the products sold at Wal-Mart are made outside of the United States.

#15 It is being reported that about 80 percent of all Wal-Mart suppliers are in China at this point.

#16 Amazingly, 96 percent of all Americans now live within 20 miles of a Wal-Mart.

#17 The number of “independent retailers” in the United States declined by 60,000 between 1992 and 2007.

#18 According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Wal-Mart spent 7.8 million dollars on political lobbying during 2011. That number does not even include campaign contributions.

#19 Today, Wal-Mart has five times the sales of the second largest U.S. retailer (Costco).

#20 The combined net worth of six members of the Walton family is roughly equal to the combined net worth of the poorest 30 percent of all Americans.

All over the country, independent retailers are going out of business
because they cannot compete with Wal-Mart and their super cheap Chinese
products.

Often communities will give Wal-Mart huge tax breaks just to
move in to their areas. But what many communities don’t take into
account is that the introduction of a Wal-Mart is often absolutely
devastating to small businesses….

A study of small and rural towns in Iowa showed lost sales for
local businesses ranging from -17.2% in small towns to -61.4% in rural
areas, amounting to a total dollar loss of $2.46 BILLION over a 13-year
period.

When we buy stuff made by people working for slave labor wages in China, we destroy good paying American jobs and we make America poorer. This is a point that I have tried to make over and over.

Wal-Mart often tells one thing to the public and then does another
thing in private. Sadly, the truth is that Wal-Mart does not care about
U.S. manufacturing jobs. Wal-Mart just wants to get products as
cheaply as they possibly can, and most of the time that means getting
them from China.

Just check out this first-hand testimony from an 81-year-old retired apparel manufacturer….

I was president of the Southwestern Apparel Manufacturers
Association. There was a meeting sometime between 1985 and 1990.

Walmart
had contacted our organization and asked if they could meet with us at
our beautiful Apparel Mart we had here in Dallas, which has now been
razed, because all the independent merchants don’t exist that used to
come to it.

Two people from Walmart came down and they said they were
going to be sourcing goods from overseas and we would have to meet those
prices for consumer products and to get ready for it—we are going to be
sourcing the world. Walmart was the only company that came out and said
this.

It was sort of shocking: I was selling them some merchandise at
the time. On the back of their trucks it was saying “Bring it Back to
America!” They had the big “keep it in America” program going at that
time on the big signs in the stores.

Meanwhile when I reminded the buyer
of that, she told me, “that is just for domestic consumption, we’re
going to buy at the cheapest we can anywhere on earth.”

As I have written about previously, the United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

We are losing millions of good jobs that cannot be replaced. If you
can believe it, the United States has actually lost an average of about 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with China was the biggest trade
deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of
the world, and Wal-Mart played a huge role in that.

In fact, Wal-Mart has actually been forcing some U.S. manufacturers
to pack up and move overseas. The following is from a recent article by Amy Traub…

Walmart’s market power is so immense that the even the largest
suppliers must comply with its demands for lower and lower prices
because they cannot afford to have their goods taken off its shelves.

Companies that used to manufacture products in the United States, from
Levi’s jeans to lock maker Master Lock, were pressured to shut their
U.S. factories and moved manufacturing abroad to meet Walmart’s demand
for low prices.

Unfortunately, the vast wealth that Wal-Mart is sucking out of our
communities is not put back into our communities. The profits are
funneled out to Wal-Mart executives and shareholders.

We may enjoy the
low prices, but very little of the money that we give to Wal-Mart gets
recycled in our local areas.

In the old days, you could actually support a family selling
electronics or running a general store. But you can’t support a family
working at Wal-Mart.

The vast majority of the jobs that Wal-Mart
creates are very low paying. Large numbers of Wal-Mart employees are
actually on welfare, and this is part of the reason why we have seen
such an explosion in the number of the working poor in America.

At this point, more than 40 percent of all jobs in America are low wage jobs and the middle class is rapidly disappearing.

If we do not support American jobs and American manufacturers they
will continue to go away and the welfare rolls in this country will
continue to explode.

There is not going to be any prosperity in this country without
jobs. Unfortunately, most Americans simply do not understand how good
jobs are being systematically destroyed in America every single day.

The path that America is headed on today is only going to end in
complete and total disaster. We are being transformed from a wealthy
nation into a poor nation.

In the end, we will be dominated by a very tiny elite and everyone else will either be among the working poor or will be totally dependent on the government.

Our system is supposed to be about open, honest competition. But
that is not what Wal-Mart is about. Wal-Mart is about crushing small
businesses and manufacturers here in America and getting us all to buy
their super cheap Chinese-made goods.

Shame on Wal-Mart. They are an un-American disgrace.

So what do all of you think about Wal-Mart? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below…

Michael Snyder – July 5, 2012 – BlackListedNews

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