Retailer pressures workers to take anti-Obama “civics course”

[workinclasszero]

Retailer pressures workers to take anti-Obama “civics course”

A program linked to Americans for Prosperity has been spoon-feeding propaganda to Menards employees
By Adele M. Stan, Alternet

If you live in the Midwest and you’re working on a home-improvement project, you’re as likely to do your shopping at a Menards store as at a Lowe’s or Home Depot. With 270 stores and 40,000 employees, Menards is the third-largest home-improvement chain in the U.S., and one of the largest privately held corporations in the country. But Menards stores sell more than just lumber and building supplies; their employees are sold a bill of goods in the form of right-wing ideology.

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/01/retailer_pressures_workers_to_take_anti_obama_civics_course/

[Initech]

1. Man Goebbels had nothing on propaganda that the Tea Party does.

[hockeynut57]

2. ok, still another reason for me to boycott menards nt

[TwilightGardener]

3. Gah--I have spent THOUSANDS at Menards over the years, renovating

my house. Never again.

[workinclasszero]

7. Yup there is a big Menards close to where I live

I loved the store but I did not know they were teabag Koch suckers.

I'll never set foot in their store again. I hope this info gets spread far and wide. These fascist employers need to be stopped.

[TwilightGardener]

8. They really were the best for hardware and building materials--we bought

a whole two-car garage from them. This just makes me sad.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I think they're about due for a name change.

They'd more aptly be called Canards....

[BlueMan Votes]

5. Menard's is a crap store that sells shitty merchandise

It really pissed me off when they drove the local Lowe's into closing up.

[Whovian]

6. I'm really getting sick of businesses trying to manipulate people in this way.

[MrYikes]

9. therefore, we will spread the word and also boycott the jerks,,,,,right???

[catbyte]

10. I will never set foot in another Menards.

Screw them and their annoying "Save big money at Menards" jingle.

[Science Geek]

11. I stopped patronizing Menards a few years back...

...when I was scanning for AM radio stations in the car one day and heard that they were 'proud sponsers' of the Rush Limbaugh Show.

That's all it took for me to stop doing business with them.

But, re-education camps for employees, that's nothing short of Maoism.

[DefenseLawyer]

12. I used to spend a lot of money at Menards

but stopped going there a couple of years ago when I learned that billionare Menard was one of the main financial backers/creators of the Tea Party and all the anti-union crap up in Wisconsin.