Hillary and Sam Walton!
Do you think Hillary Clinton’s as a board member of Wal-Mart profiteering off child, prison and slave labor is a legitimate issue in 08? Do you think Hillary commitment to U.S. workers, small business, and environmental standards due to her profiteering based on exploitation while on the board is a real issue? Do you think Bill Clinton was influenced as President by Hillary to support and expand on this trade policy that puts profits ahead of human rights and Americans via the relationship with Sam Walton?
GP-Read an official biography of the Senator and you’ll find her six-month stint on a child-protection task force. Yet you won’t find her SIX YEARS on the board of directors of Wal-Mart Corporation. She may have earned a Grammy for “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child.” But it takes a Governor’s wife to provide cover for Wal-Mart’s profiteering off systematic wage-enslavement of children in its factories in South America.
Sam Walton called Hillary, “My little lady.” Sam paid her an eyebrow raising sum for a director - equal to 60% of her entire not-insubstantial salary as a lawyer. By contrast, Wendy Diaz (her real name), a 13-year-old in Honduras, was paid 25 cents an hour to make shirts for the “little lady’s” label.
Hillary’s rake-in was made possible by Wal-Mart’s 100% union-free operation and out-sourcing of 100% of its manufacturing, some to prison factories in China. Now, you could say that Hillary couldn’t hear the screams of the kiddies in Kamp Wal-Mart in Honduras. After all, she relied on the intelligence provided her by the President (of Wal-Mart).
May 15th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
She should be confronted with her ties to WalMart…and for the sake of reality, let’s take a look at this company in the past few years…almost nothing in terms of gains for the stock price, and as Konop pointed out, they leverage the worldwide exploitation of workers to produce their products, causing stateside manufacturers to atrophy and close shop…
They treat their employees like garbage, and are now even spying on them…even with all of this in their favor, rising sales, etc…they can’t beat the S&P500 for two years running?
Perhaps the business model has run its course at this point.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Al
You do need wages here to buy products. Which is why they are going to places like China!
They will shift and we will have working class Americans left behind!
May 15th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
John,
Did the comments on the other thread burn you so bad you had to start over?
Sam Walton resigned from WalMart management in 1988 and died in 1992.
When did Hilliary serve on the board and what was Wal-Mart like at that time?
and shame on you for running from a good fight!
May 16th, 2007 at 6:34 am
I poste it because I thought everyone ahould read the article!
Do you think Sam Walton had nothing to do with Wal-Mart after 1988?
May 16th, 2007 at 6:58 am
When did Hilliary serve on the Board?
May 16th, 2007 at 8:43 am
MD
Read what the founder and majority shareholder had to say about Hillary!
Sam Walton called Hillary, “My little lady.” Sam paid her an eyebrow raising sum for a director - equal to 60% of her entire not-insubstantial salary as a lawyer. By contrast, Wendy Diaz (her real name), a 13-year-old in Honduras, was paid 25 cents an hour to make shirts for the “little lady’s” label.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:44 am
MD
BTW Greg Palast who wrote the article is a well respected from the Left!
May 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
and another no answer to a direct answer.
When was Hilliary on the Board of WalMart?
The DNA of the author does not impress me. Facts impress me.
A cut and paste from George Washington personal diary at Valley Forge would not impress me. A peek over the ramparts at a live scene would impress me.
Dig up the history of Wal-Mart at the time Hilliary served the board.
Not todays dirty underwear from Sam’s children.
Get your little pointed head out of the … tabloid political news.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Mad Dog
You don’t care about Wendy Diaz?
May 16th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Mad Dog
You’ve got to admit that there’s a little more than just a blue dress going on here with the Clintons. But seriously, how much access do you think people really got when they rented out the Lincoln bedroom? And by “access” I mean ACCESS!!!!!
YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!
May 16th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Some points.
Walmart employees a lot of people, many who are probably here illegally.
Lots of people shop at Walmart because of the cheap prices. I do. So do lots of illegals.
The US needs to hire a private firms that looks into who is making the goods and put policies in place to say no to “slave/child labor”.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Bill,
If that were an issue. Yes.
It’s not an issue. It’s crap.
When did Hilliary sit on the board at Wal-Mart.
John will never answer because it invalidates his rant and Wendy Diaz.
Why is her name Americanized? Wendy?
May 16th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
John,
Since you don’t have the xxxx to answer, …
When Wal-Mart’s founder, Sam Walton, tapped Clinton to be the company’s first female board member, Wal-Mart was a fraction of its current size, with $11.9 billion in net sales.
Posted 3/10/2006 6:15 PM
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Wal-Mart pits Clinton’s ambition against her past
NEW YORK (AP) — With retail giant Wal-Mart under fire to improve its labor and health care policies, one Democrat with deep ties to the company — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton — has started feeling her share of the political heat.
Clinton served on Wal-Mart’s board of directors for six years when her husband was governor of Arkansas. And the Rose Law Firm, where she was a partner, handled many of the Arkansas-based company’s legal affairs.
By Joe Marquette, AP
Sen. Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton had kind words for Wal-Mart as recently as 2004, when she told an audience at the convention of the National Retail Federation that her time on the board “was a great experience in every respect.”
But in recent months, as the company has become a target for Democratic activists, she has largely steered clear of any mention of Wal-Mart. And late last year, Clinton’s re-election campaign returned a $5,000 contribution from Wal-Mart, citing “serious differences with current company practices.”
As Clinton sheds her Arkansas past and looks ahead to a possible 2008 presidential run, the Wal-Mart issue presents an exquisite dilemma: how to reconcile the political demands she faces today with her history at a company many American consumers depend upon but many Democratic activists revile.
“The interesting question is not just Hillary Clinton’s history at Wal-Mart, but why it’s delicate for her to talk about Wal-Mart,” said Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect, a book on the company’s impact on the national economy. “Plenty of Democrats denounce Wal-Mart, but there are also plenty of people who need it, love it and rely on it.”
In 1986, when Wal-Mart’s founder, Sam Walton, tapped Clinton to be the company’s first female board member, Wal-Mart was a fraction of its current size, with $11.9 billion in net sales.
Today, Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer and largest private employer, with over $312 billion in sales last year and 1.3 million employees or “associates” in the U.S. alone.
You can come out of your Bush Bubble now.
$11 billion in sales vs. $312 billion in sales.
Clinton worked for a very different Wal-Mart management team (and company).
How about the retraction on how Hilliary sold Wendy into slavery?
Do I have to brow beat that out of you, too?
May 16th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
John…
Sorry about the awfull cut and paste job.
OUCH!
You might read the entire article.
The future President and First Woman President, Hilliary Clinton made $18,000 a year as a board member.
You suck at facts.