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Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers
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Strickland
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Did I forget to mention that I don't watch cable news? I know CNN and MSNBC and all of them are shit, which is why I don't rely on them for news.
The BBC? The Guardian?Fox Mulder said:
And they have credibility why?
Strickland
Banned
The Guardian isn't what I rely on the most, it's mainly the BBC, but I've never once seen anything they've reported on as left-leaning. And believe me, I used to be a a member of the Communist League, I know a thing or two about left-leaning.
Disclaimer: I'm no longer a communist or anarcho-syndicalist, which I affiliated with most recently, but am now something of a Social Democrat.
Minor Axis
Well-Known Member
I'm glad to see illegals go.
15 Years Ago, all of the fast food places were I live started employing mostly Hispanics, legal or illegal, I don't know. Now, most if not all of the contractors are hiring Hispanics, legal or illegal, I don't know. Businesses like siding and roofing contractors. I don't have a problem with legal immigration and I'm not prejudice, but these jobs used to be decent paying jobs and I don't want to see them taken from hard working Americans who were happy to do these jobs if they are being stolen by illegals.
This shows you if they can, employers will move jobs to the lowest paying groups. It's no different that outsourcing outside the country. The difference in this case is that the people are coming to the job, not the other way around. It doe not matter if you are in a union or not as part of the U.S. work force some portion of employees are taking it in the shorts.
I recently wrote a letter to my State's Attorney General's Office asking them with the overwhelming % of jobs now being staffed by people not from the local area did they have a handle on legal vs illegal immigrants? They pointed me at United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (ICE) with a toll free tip number and my State's Dept of Revenue to go after Employers who don't pay employee taxes if they are using illegals.
My goal here was not to become a spy for the U.S. Government, but I'm still wondering what kind of programs do they have to camp down on illegal immigrants?
15 Years Ago, all of the fast food places were I live started employing mostly Hispanics, legal or illegal, I don't know. Now, most if not all of the contractors are hiring Hispanics, legal or illegal, I don't know. Businesses like siding and roofing contractors. I don't have a problem with legal immigration and I'm not prejudice, but these jobs used to be decent paying jobs and I don't want to see them taken from hard working Americans who were happy to do these jobs if they are being stolen by illegals.
This shows you if they can, employers will move jobs to the lowest paying groups. It's no different that outsourcing outside the country. The difference in this case is that the people are coming to the job, not the other way around. It doe not matter if you are in a union or not as part of the U.S. work force some portion of employees are taking it in the shorts.
I recently wrote a letter to my State's Attorney General's Office asking them with the overwhelming % of jobs now being staffed by people not from the local area did they have a handle on legal vs illegal immigrants? They pointed me at United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (ICE) with a toll free tip number and my State's Dept of Revenue to go after Employers who don't pay employee taxes if they are using illegals.
My goal here was not to become a spy for the U.S. Government, but I'm still wondering what kind of programs do they have to camp down on illegal immigrants?
What illegal immigrants need is a good union to represent them before the NLRB. Once they have that their wages will increase along with benefits. And of course the union wll defend the right of its members not to pay federal and state taxes because the membership aren't Americans. And of course the union won't have to demand that employers provide health insurance because then union membership can just show up at the local emergency room for a hangnail and demand treatment.
Yup, illegals and unions are a natural together.
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Minor Axis
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So you must support the WALMART SOLUTION for uppity employees who expect too much when it comes to health insurance... (Walmart, as in the most profitable corporation in the country.)
Wow, do you always make things up? I say blueberries and you accuse me of hating cherries. :confused
BTW, Wal-Mart is not the most profitable corporation in the country when viewing return on capital which is really the only way to measure the rate of success. Had you ever been in executive level management you would known that.
Since you are so smart, please inform us of what caused the offering of benefits outside the normal wages paid.
We'll wait while you google it.
lumpenstein
Active Member
What's this pathological obsession with communism? I think it's more about not wanting anybody have a slice of your cream, if I may mix metaphors. Defending Walmart is like defending a serial child beater - and no, I don't work at Walmart. I work at a nice comfortable non-union capitilist company where everybody is paid the same wage, wether they make a worthwhile contribution or if they fuck the dog. I just love trying my best and getting the same money as somebody that pounds pooches all day long. Same old same old. Right wing capitalists are ALL right and everybody else is ALL wrong. America is the greatest country concievable and the only thing wrong with it is all those damn ungrateful welfare bums and illegal Mexican immigrants.
lumpenstein
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BadBoy@TheWheel
DT3's Twinkie
Oh here.....
Costco, other U.S. retailers no match for Wal-Mart
DAN VOELPEL; THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: July 4th, 2008 01:00 AM
The Treasury Department sent us consumers another $7.8 billion last week to help perk up the U.S. economy. If history holds, we’ll spend our economic stimulus checks at the same stores we always have. That means Wal-Mart.
Since 1991, when the National Retail Federation started tracking the nation’s top 100 retailers, Wal-Mart has ranked No. 1.
The latest annual rankings, released this week, showed no change at the top of the list. The rest of the top 10 – including Northwest powerhouse Costco – remained mostly unchanged except for a few retailers swapping spots.
Want a succinct picture of how dominant Wal-Mart is?
It recorded more than $378 billion in sales last year. That amounts to more than the next five top retailers combined – The Home Depot, Kroger, CVS Caremark, Costco and Target.
How about one more Wal-Mart fact?
If you look at the retailers lists No. 30 through No. 100, the combined revenue posted by each company is less than Wal-Mart’s profits.
“That’s pretty mind-blowing when you think about it,” Susan Reda, executive editor of Stores magazine, said in a conference call with journalists this week. “Wal-Mart is far and away the most profitable retailer in America.”
Since the economy has worsened this year, it plays to the strength of Wal-Mart’s low-price retail strategy, Reda said.
Sears, ranked No. 9, may own the slogan “Where America Shops for Value.” But America shops at Wal-Mart.
As for Costco, Reda said, it’s “one of those companies that we look at and wonder, ‘How do they constantly do it year after year?’”
Sales per Costco warehouse increased to $130 million last year, with some far exceeded the average,” which ranks two to three times Costco’s nearest competitor.
Costco also recorded an 87-percent renewal rate among its members in 2007 – the highest retention rate in company history.
“Consumers love the ‘treasure hunt’ of Costco – that mix of practical and indulgent items that they return for again and again,” Reda said.
She also marveled at the continued success of another Northwest retailer, Amazon.
Amazon increased revenues last year by 38.5 percent and ranks No. 25 on the list, “which is nothing short of amazing since they don’t operate any stores. … That’s pretty staggering when you think about that,” Reda said.
Other Northwest retailers in the Top 100 include:
• No. 36, Starbucks (revenues $9.4 billion, up 20.9 percent).
• No. 40, Nordstrom (revenues $8.8 billion, up 3.1 percent).
Apparel retailers and department stores didn’t fare well in 2007 – and probably won’t again this year – as we have less and less discretionary income to spend – aside from that $600 government stimulus check.
“Look,” said Scott Krugman, vice president of industry public relations for National Retail Federation, “the economy is challenging the entire industry and just about everyone on the top-100 list.”
Price-conscious Americans will look increasingly at discount retailers “because price is such a large part of their value equation,” and grocery stores, he said.
“Consumers will be focusing on necessity buys,” Krugman said.
We will spend more time in the grocery stores, Reda added, and treat ourselves to apparel and other frills when we have a little bit left over.
Tough economic times, Reda added, inspire innovation, which we have seen in the selection quality, organic options and designed shopping experience at most chain grocery stores.
“A lot of innovation is coming out of that category, and the timing is good,” she said.
“A lot of retailers are saying, ‘I’m trying something new. I’m trying to make things work,’” she said.
She admits to being “a bit Pollyanna-ish” (She edits a retail industry publication, after all.) and prefers to look for “what good comes from the turmoil.”
Dan Voelpel: 253-597-8785
dan.voelpel@thenewstribune.com
Top 10 U.S. Retailers
1. Wal-Mart (large-format retail)
2. The Home Depot (home improvement)
3. Kroger, which owns Fred Meyer (supermarket)
4. CVS Caremark (drugstore)
5. Costco (large-format retail)
6. Target (large-format retail)
7. Walgreen (drugstore)
8. Sears Holdings (department store)
9. Lowe’s (home improvement)
10. Supervalu, which owns Albertsons (supermarket)
Source: Stores magazine/National Retail Federation; based on 2007 statistics.
Costco, other U.S. retailers no match for Wal-Mart
DAN VOELPEL; THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: July 4th, 2008 01:00 AM
The Treasury Department sent us consumers another $7.8 billion last week to help perk up the U.S. economy. If history holds, we’ll spend our economic stimulus checks at the same stores we always have. That means Wal-Mart.
Since 1991, when the National Retail Federation started tracking the nation’s top 100 retailers, Wal-Mart has ranked No. 1.
The latest annual rankings, released this week, showed no change at the top of the list. The rest of the top 10 – including Northwest powerhouse Costco – remained mostly unchanged except for a few retailers swapping spots.
Want a succinct picture of how dominant Wal-Mart is?
It recorded more than $378 billion in sales last year. That amounts to more than the next five top retailers combined – The Home Depot, Kroger, CVS Caremark, Costco and Target.
How about one more Wal-Mart fact?
If you look at the retailers lists No. 30 through No. 100, the combined revenue posted by each company is less than Wal-Mart’s profits.
“That’s pretty mind-blowing when you think about it,” Susan Reda, executive editor of Stores magazine, said in a conference call with journalists this week. “Wal-Mart is far and away the most profitable retailer in America.”
Since the economy has worsened this year, it plays to the strength of Wal-Mart’s low-price retail strategy, Reda said.
Sears, ranked No. 9, may own the slogan “Where America Shops for Value.” But America shops at Wal-Mart.
As for Costco, Reda said, it’s “one of those companies that we look at and wonder, ‘How do they constantly do it year after year?’”
Sales per Costco warehouse increased to $130 million last year, with some far exceeded the average,” which ranks two to three times Costco’s nearest competitor.
Costco also recorded an 87-percent renewal rate among its members in 2007 – the highest retention rate in company history.
“Consumers love the ‘treasure hunt’ of Costco – that mix of practical and indulgent items that they return for again and again,” Reda said.
She also marveled at the continued success of another Northwest retailer, Amazon.
Amazon increased revenues last year by 38.5 percent and ranks No. 25 on the list, “which is nothing short of amazing since they don’t operate any stores. … That’s pretty staggering when you think about that,” Reda said.
Other Northwest retailers in the Top 100 include:
• No. 36, Starbucks (revenues $9.4 billion, up 20.9 percent).
• No. 40, Nordstrom (revenues $8.8 billion, up 3.1 percent).
Apparel retailers and department stores didn’t fare well in 2007 – and probably won’t again this year – as we have less and less discretionary income to spend – aside from that $600 government stimulus check.
“Look,” said Scott Krugman, vice president of industry public relations for National Retail Federation, “the economy is challenging the entire industry and just about everyone on the top-100 list.”
Price-conscious Americans will look increasingly at discount retailers “because price is such a large part of their value equation,” and grocery stores, he said.
“Consumers will be focusing on necessity buys,” Krugman said.
We will spend more time in the grocery stores, Reda added, and treat ourselves to apparel and other frills when we have a little bit left over.
Tough economic times, Reda added, inspire innovation, which we have seen in the selection quality, organic options and designed shopping experience at most chain grocery stores.
“A lot of innovation is coming out of that category, and the timing is good,” she said.
“A lot of retailers are saying, ‘I’m trying something new. I’m trying to make things work,’” she said.
She admits to being “a bit Pollyanna-ish” (She edits a retail industry publication, after all.) and prefers to look for “what good comes from the turmoil.”
Dan Voelpel: 253-597-8785
dan.voelpel@thenewstribune.com
Top 10 U.S. Retailers
1. Wal-Mart (large-format retail)
2. The Home Depot (home improvement)
3. Kroger, which owns Fred Meyer (supermarket)
4. CVS Caremark (drugstore)
5. Costco (large-format retail)
6. Target (large-format retail)
7. Walgreen (drugstore)
8. Sears Holdings (department store)
9. Lowe’s (home improvement)
10. Supervalu, which owns Albertsons (supermarket)
Source: Stores magazine/National Retail Federation; based on 2007 statistics.
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