If You Aren't Already Doing So..For God's Sake BOYCOTT WAL-MART!!

Wal-Mart's Walton family now has 771,287 times more money than the median U.S. household. What gives?

It would be one thing if the Waltons got rich by brains, sacrifice and hard work, but instead they did it what has sadly become the American way: by taking advantage of desperate low-income, poorly educated U.S. workers, using slave labor in their Third World factories, and relying on taxpayers to pick up any and all costs.Taxpayers pay billions of dollars per year to subsidize Wal-Mart, paying for health care, food and housing for WM employees. We also offer WM infrastructure assistance, free land, tax exemptions, and outright cash to build. How many local business owners get that kind of assistance? Can you say NONE?The Waltons are in the Top 10 Richest people in the WORLD, yet WM employees can't afford food and shelter. You and I could become filthy rich too, if we had no morals. Here in Oregon, WM locked employees in the stores and forced them to work overtime FOR FREE (The Simpson's did an excellent episode on that; Matt Groening is from Portland). WM hired illegal aliens to clean stores at less than 2 bucks an hour, and fires anyone who even breathes the word "union". In fact, when a store did actually unionize, WM, the poor losers and cheap bastards that they are, immediately closed the store.Yet does the media report any of these truths? Very rarely, except for on the wonderful Alternet. Our main paper, The Oregonian, prints all the fluff pieces that WM's PR dept. puts out, but rarely prints anything mentioning THE FACTS about WM, even though we currently have 4 organzied groups in the Portland area alone trying to save their communities from WM destruction. And if our media is too afraid to tell the truth, how can locals compete against against WM's 4 Million $ per day PR campaign? People need to know the whole picture to be able to make an educated choice on where to shop- or not.Americans need to know the truth, and the truth is, America can't afford Wal-Mart.
(ALL credit for this piece goes to Agent99 on Alternet.org)