Wally World Watch

[lonestarnot]

Vote here if you like.

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Brave New Films, the film studio that brought us “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” is holding an online vote to pick the worst of the 1%. They’re looking for the person who is doing the most with their wealth to exploit the rest of the country.

When it comes to the 1%, Rob Walton and the Walton family are it. The Walton family has amassed more than $93 billion in wealth, making them the richest family in the country.

The Waltons inherited that wealth, much of it was created by paying many workers at poverty-level wages, offering poor benefits, and lowering conditions in the supply chain by demanding ever-lower prices. Walmart’s trade deficit with China alone eliminated hundreds of thousands of US manufacturing jobs.

Rob Walton, himself, has an overall estimated worth of $21 billion running the world’s largest private employer. It is estimated now that 1.4 million people work for Walmart or 1 out of every 222 Americans. The dividends of the Walmart stock the Waltons own alone could go a long way toward making Walmart jobs good, living wage jobs. Instead he chooses to keep the average employee below the family poverty line and cut health benefits for hundreds of thousands employees.

Associates at Walmart are coming together to make their jobs and their company better through the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). Stand with them in helping expose the impact of Walmart at the Waltons by voting for Rob Walton.

The Waltons have used the Walton Family Foundation to advance a right wing agenda and fund right-wing organizations. In the last five years, the Walton Family Foundation (where Rob sits on the board) has given money to the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation and other groups that advance the conservative agenda.

In 2010, the Walton Family Foundation spent more than $157 million to support the so-called school choice movement. This movement generally seeks to divert money from public schools to private schools through policies such as vouchers and charter schools. These donations make the Walton Family Foundation one of the largest funders of efforts to undermine public education.

Rob Walton has earned your vote. Be sure the rate just how much of a one percenter you think he is. Cast your ballot today!

Best,

Walmart Watch

[Lint Head]

1. There should be a law passed to prevent any corporation from ever doing this again.

[Rochester]

2. Not to poke fun or anything, but check out this video about it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKv6RcXa2UI

[lonestarnot]

3. A friend regularly sends wally world people photos. I laugh and then feel guilty, but damn some of

them are hysterical!