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Anti-Walmart Flash Mob Turns Up at Store Demanding Pensions & Benefits for Employees…or Else

Anti Walmart Flash Mob in Maryland

What better way to help communities in need of work than to invoke an angry flash-mob targeting a major retailer that offers nearby residents… jobs?

Well, that is precisely what happened in Laurel, Maryland, when an activist group called “Respect DC” recently turned up at a local Walmart to deliver an ultimatum to the retail giant: give your employees high wages and top-notch benefits, or else. It is perhaps also worth noting that RDC’s politically-charged flash mob was promoted on the SEIU Youtube page.

To deliver its message, the group‘s medium was a jazz performance of Aretha Franklin’s famed song “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” In the flash-mobber’s re-worked song lyrics, RDC apparently wants Walmart to promise, along with great pay and other benefits, retirement pensions for all its employees:

“What you want, Walmart you got it. What you need, you know we got it. All we’re asking is for a little respect if you come to D.C…. We ain’t gonna give you all our money, unless you give us some retirement, honey.”

According to RDC, Walmart needs to “show respect” to the neighborhoods in which the retail giant plans to open new stores by meeting with “community leaders” to whom it will “guarantee,” in writing no less, to “improve” the quality of life for its employees. The RDC website explains the intent of its flash mob:

More than 100 DC residents and members of our coalition held a flash mob at the Laurel, Md., Walmart, to demonstrate the depth of support for an enforceable community benefits agreement before the world’s largest retailer is allowed to enter the nation’s capital. Accompanied by a brass band and chorus, the participants sang out, “All we’re asking is for Respect (Prove you mean it)”.

Did they say “allowed?”

Watch the video of the flash mob below:

In fact, RDC’s sole mission as stated in its charter is to “educate” community leaders about Walmart’s “checkered” track record of:

…paying poverty-level wages, forcing competitors to close, causing a net loss of jobs, breaking its promises, and multiple lawsuits alleging that the company discriminates against female employees and engages in wage theft, including the the largest sex discrimination class action in U.S history.

RDC then goes on to literally “ensure” that “no Walmart” will be built in the D.C. metro area unless the advocacy group’s demands are met.

How the group intends to deliver on that promise, however, still remains unclear.

And some might argue that, just by its very presence, Walmart and similar retail chains improve quality of life for people in their respective communities by offering an abundance of job opportunities and by contributing to the local economy. Even if Walmart were to pay only minimum wage, can that really be considered “poverty-wages?”

One also wonders how a company that employs a reported 2 million people worldwide causes a “net loss” of jobs anywhere it operates.

Not surprisingly, RDC claimed one Walmart employee was “touched” by the group’s presence and public display of concern.

“When I saw the large crowd, heard the band and the words, I couldn’t believe it,” said Alan Barber, an associate at the Laurel Walmart, according to RespectDC.org. “But then to listen to their words — that associates should be respected, too — that really touched me, because we don’t get the respect we deserve at work. Management overworks and underpays us, and then makes things worse by creating a climate of fear so most associates are too afraid to demand better treatment.”

It might also be worth noting that RDC has yet to make similar demands on any other retailer, large or small. Does Walmart really deserve to be singled out? Or is it just a matter of time before Target and other non-unionized retailers are on the receiving end of an angry flash-mob?

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  • homekeeper
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:17am

    How disrespectful of this group to walk into a business and do this. I’m mean really? Distasteful and childish is what it means to me.

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    • IronSights
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 10:11am

      Private Property! Arrest every single one of them! If the want gather off the property to protest, fine, provided they their not being a nuisance to other businesses or become a safety issue (traffic etc). But nothing happens to these worthless activists.
      “So what do you do for a living?“ ”Oh, I’m a professional protestor.” Pa(freaking)thetic!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 10:48am

      Walmart is private property and a place of business they should simply get their lawyers to get everyone involved banned from all walmart property and sue them for any sales they might hvae lost and for harrassing their employees.

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    • Ne_FAL
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:41am

      Charge these SEIU thugs with criminal trespass & extortion .The threat of violence & damage to property & reputation is clearly evident . This can be done by the state legal system as opposed to that weasel Eric “not gonna prosecute my people ”Holder.

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    • Psalm 144 verse 1
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:46am

      My wife has worked for Wal-Mart for the past 20 years. She started as a cashier and worked in every position the store has, she is now the store manager! Wal-Mart is just like any other company out there, once you get hired you are in a probationary period to see if you’re going to work out…then guess what?? You will then be eligible for health benifits, stock matching, and 401K matching, these people have no clue. We consertivatives need to start planning time out of our WORK WEEKS to go protest some of their little get togethers!

      It’s almost time people!

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    • getalong
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:36pm

      A couple of the bleeding heart females should have stopped by the shaving department and picked up some razors to shave under their armpits. Reminds of the hippies from the 60′s – poor deluded idiots don’t understand that prices on everything will go up if Walmart is forced to pay outrageous union benefits.

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    • NeoKong
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:56pm

      What a bunch of friggin’ losers. How many actually have a job someplace that doesn’t have incense or raw cane sugar on the counters….?

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    • 408 CheyTac
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:20pm

      criminal trespassing complaints?

      Why does wally put up with these jackasses? Start signing complaints, and the fools will quit. Stand there and be a target, more will happen.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 3:07pm

      what a sad looking group. What a bunch of losers. Seriously, I did not see one person from the video that looked normal. Nasty bunch of losers….

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    • kurtnut
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:52pm

      How stupid do they think we are? I’ll bet my left nut and half of my right one that this employee who was “touched” by the show of support was all a part of this dog and pony show. A part of me actually feels embarrassed for these fools dancing around thinking that they are actually making a difference. Keep encouraging these fools – the more they dance around, the more idiotic and asinine they look!!!

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    • truthhawk
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:18pm

      Sometimes I think libs just want everyone to be unemployed and miserable! WMT should boycott DC! Let the libs pay higher prices and go to 4 different stores to get items needed. Let the libs use up more gas, spewing carbon into the air. All to teach WMT a lesson. By the way, all those protesters look like they’re collecting unemployment!

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:39pm

      Walmart workers have respect, they have jobs, you dolts. What more do you want for stocking shelves and scanning merchandise?

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    • tnalp
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 1:04am

      WalMart should get the resources to identify and hit each one of them with a civil suit. Hit them in the pocketbook. That will be the only way to stop these law breakers.

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    • Lawlcat001
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 8:13am

      omfg. Get OVER IT! They were having fun and making a point!
      Stop bashing them and junk! They didn’t beat anyone up, they didn’t throw any flame bombs.
      They played music, danced, and sang. As far as I know, that’s not against Walmart code.

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    • Misty Williams
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 9:24am

      You know, no matter where I’ve worked, there were times I felt very overworked, very under-valued, and certainly under-paid. But the truth of the matter is, if you don’t like it, then all you have to do is find a job at the Perfect-Utopian-MegaMart down the road. Oh wait, there isn’t one!
      A job is a job, and there are very few people who get to have a job where they don’t have to work long hours, for little appreciation and certainly not quite enough to have a two-story house with a white picket fence, and a dog named Dave.
      When WalMart opened in our town about 16 years ago, it brought in 250 jobs. The economy in the town was terrible before they got here. The poorest people had a terrible standard of living, because local stores would not or could not lower their prices (didn’t have to compete). When WalMart expanded into a super center, the job number jumped up to nearly 500. In a community of roughly 10,000 where the unemployment is higher than most other places in the state, that’s a pretty impressive number to employ.
      In a community where the poorest folks had very little, WalMart brought very positive change. And with more people employed, and more money flowing around the community, more businesses have opened, and low and behold, there are more jobs here than before WalMart arrived. Wow, funny how that worked! Is WalMart perfect? No. But it isn’t the great-retail-Satan, either.
      I wonder, if Wallies supported LGBT and other such things, would they be a such

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    • feekes
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 11:24am

      SMITHCLAR3NC3 I agree with you. Wal-Mart should just ban them from their stores. Besides, if you do not like the benefits a company has to offer, don’t work there.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 12:17pm

      What they should do is let them build all the stores, invest in the areas no one else will invest in. Then wait till hiring day and beat the dog snot out of any body that has the stupid idea of accepting the terms of employment! After all WE should determin if you are allowed to get a job, improve your station in life, earn extra money, or be allowed to fix the Food Deserts. We are the thugs that look out for you, no matter what you want.
      After all there are many companies just clamering to build in areas that get robbed and trashed.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 2:49pm

      Walmart, close the store down and let them continue buying from all the black businesses around DC.

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    • buckster6.0
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 7:25pm

      is it just me or do these ppl look like what you see when you hear last call and the lights come on?

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    • JamesonLewis3rd
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 8:11pm

      Unseemly. That‘s what it is.

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    • SgtBarrett
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:16am

      Wow, what a raunchy bunch of hippies! I bet it actually stank in there when they left! LOL!!! Dredlocks and bongos. Looked like a Louisiana street corner!!

      I bet management was standing around observing the response of their own employees to see who the potential losers in their midst were…

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  • walker1812
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:16am

    My wife just retired from walmart after 23 years working there. With her WMT stock we’ve purchased two timeshares in Mexico over the years and her retirement kick ass Mustang convertible. Her 401k and profit sharing is in a very handsome Scottrade account which I’ll bet none of these losers could come close to with their retirement accounts. nough said! Go pond sand SEIU!!!! Go get your government handouts. My wife worked hard for what she has and has no regrets and hasn’t paid one penny to union thieves.

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    • doctroprint
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:25am

      Well this makes me feel a lot better. Seriously..

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:32am

      Walker,

      Good for you and your wife! I had a business for 25 years that escaped being unionized, although it was labor intensive. Occasionally, we were forced to hold our noses and pay for union labor, which was pretty worthless compared to our own employees.

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    • Shane the Golden
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:33am

      Walker1812– Congratulations to you and your wife on retirement. It is nice to know that at even an ‘evil’ employer like Walmart can ensure a decent life and retirement. These socialists are laughable. What they demand would destroy Walmart as it has so many other once great companies.
      Just Saying.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:51am

      WELL SAID, WALKER!!!!

      interesting, they thought their 100 people showed “depth of support”.

      REALLY? 100? REALLY? that is how deep your support is?

      LOL

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    • Pelon
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:14am

      Congrats to your wife. As a long time retailer, I know, all it takes is hard work. Well done.

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    • AmeriWoman
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:22am

      Well said!

      AW

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:40am

      I’m happy for your wife and you. But in my neighborhood WalMart and other “big box” and the like stores have decimated the local business community. WalMart doesn’t participate in the local community the way smaller mom and pop places did. And the sense of community has diminished as a result.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:07am

      I think I will shop at Walmart more! If SEIU is protesting, Walmart must be doing it right. Congratulations in your retirement – I hope it’s long and happy.
      P.S. I wonder if any of those morons really know the facts?

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    • HKS
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:37am

      I think they call them useful idiots.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:15am

      My dad worked for Proctor and Gamble for 26 years, and it wasn’t unionized at the time (he retired 20 years ago). Every time it came up for a vote, the people felt they were treated better than any union would do, and didn’t have to pay dues.

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    • jblovesAmerica
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 9:58am

      Great Story-tell it everyday.
      Liberals don’t care about the truth or facts.

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    • DNoyce
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:41am

      Unionism is Communism. SEIU and other unions are Communists who won’t be happy until everyone in brought down to the lowest common denominator sharing misery equally. Congrats to your hard working wife who saw throught the union BS and thrived without them!

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    • dictionmary
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Congratulations, Walker1812, for attaining the American dream. Sadly, these mobs are a precursor to what may be coming–and they won’t be carrying musical instruments.

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  • dietrdeb
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:16am

    If these goofs don‘t like Wal Mart’s practices then shop and work elsewhere. Leave the rest of us alone.

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    • Master Sergeant Malone
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:10am

      My small town of 17 thousand has a super center and count ‘em, TWO warehouses. Walmart is constantly contributing to this town in a variety of ways. With checks to our local charities and schools as well as permitting free access to it’s property for local groups to raise funds for their worthy causes. The next time your in your local Walmart store(s), check out the service depts. There you’ll find posted the actual amount YOUR local Walmart contributes to your community. It ain’t chump change! No I’m not a Walmart employee, never have been, and like any shopper I’ll have an issue with the retail giant occasionally, but C’mon folks, let’s give credit where credit is due! And yo, you union THUGS out there in la la land: Why don’t you “flash Mob” another retail giant, Gold’s Gym Inc? You’d get your collective butts kicked to kingdom come, that’s why! Morons!!!!!

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    • marine_gunnery_sergeant
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:14am

      I like your thought process MSgt well said!!!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 9:37am

      If you can’t provide pensions and other benefits rrovided by hard fought workers rights movements[unions] you should not have the right to start a business.The nanny state is coming to the USA and you rabid callous brainwashed diehard right wingers are on the wrong side of history!

       
    • hypnos
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Rose Ellen your an idiot walmart provides health insurance for about 94% of it’s employees. I am sure there are pension plan options. Not everyone needs a helicopter mom to watch over them.

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    • 4areason
      Posted on July 23, 2011 at 5:13pm

      Rose Ellen, I sweat making payroll every week so my employees aren’t on unemployment. My employees get paid though I haven’t seen a paycheck in 2-1/2 years. I care about every employee, their families and our community. I work a 60 hour work-week every week and do it because I believe in what we do. When the business is finally in a position of strength, folks like you will stand there with your hand out asking for my profit that I worked for 5 years to achieve and call me a greedy capitalist. You should be ashamed of yourself. There is value and worth in working for a wage instead of willfully sponging off working America. You have said foolish things in the past but this post takes the cake! I don’t typically take the time to respond to your kind of ignorance but your lack of consideration for people who work to make the world a better place requires correction. You are embarrassing yourself. Go start a business, comply with all the govt reg’s, deal with budgets and taxes, make a payroll when your broke, and put your house up for collateral – then come on back and give us your opinion. You know the old saying, “It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove yourself one”. God bless our businesses who fight the good fight for jobs and prosperity despite folks like you.

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  • SandyfromChesterfield
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:56am

    If they will not let Walmart open up in DC how will Michelle get rid of the “food deserts”?

    The unions have been after Walmart to be part of the union for years. Just think of all that money obama would get.

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:20am

      We would be brain dead as a Nation if Obama gets re-elected in 2012. The guy is an outright Marxist, who despises the exceptionalism of the USA. Obama is the great “leveler”. He doesn’t want the USA to be the “shinning City on the Hill”.

      He did away with our Space Program, so that we can re-distribute our wealth to other Nations if we need to be in outer space. His position is that the USA is NOT exceptional. We are just another clog in the wheel. He prefers International Law over USA Constitutional Law. Obama should be tried for treason.

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    • Shane the Golden
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:36am

      with Holder as Attorney General no charges will be brought….

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:57am

      Um, no. BUSH killed the shuttle program. Stick to truth and facts, there are plenty to throw at the President.

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    • drbage
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 9:09am

      A couple of things that I noticed in the video. Usually when SEIU or any of the other names under which it does “business,” they wear their purple shirts, but in this flash mob and a couple of others recently they do not–guess they feel that they are going undercover. Second, look at the flash mob, does this really look like a group of concerned citizens from D.C.? Third, if we took a poll of the flash mob, would they all say that they NEVER shop at WalMart?

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:49am

    Sam Walmart was a great businessman. He brought consumer goods to middle America at reasonable prices. I have shopped at Walmart for years for their low prices. My only complaint is that the goods of late come from foreign Countries.

    I blame this on the private unions. They killed all manufacturing in the USA. I’m old enough to remember when you could buy a brand new car for $2,000 to $3,000.

    Today, a brand new car costs ten times as much. The unions are mostly the blame for this, but also the environmental nuts caused the price of a car to skyrocket.

    President Obama has tried to push this Nation into all electric cars. Can you imagine what the outcome would be if most of us had electric cars, AND the current “heat bubble” that we are now experiencing? Don‘t even mention that Obama doesn’t want the USA to drill for it’s own oil, or create it’s own energy. Obama prefers to re-distribute American wealth to other Countries.

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    • GadsdenPatriot
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:11am

      Here here, Diane.

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:44am

      Unions ruined the automobile manufacturing industry…….

      Wal-Mart should throw these union fools out of the store – file charges for disturbing the peace, and file a racketeering lawsuit against the union for business interruption…..

      A Freanch-owned catering company – operating in the USA – filed a racketeering lawsuit against SEIU – for their underhanded means to force the catering company to submit to being unionized.

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    • IowaWoman
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:03am

      Obama wants to redistribute American money to the poor of the WORLD. The joke is on the “poor” in America…..shhhh They do not know Obama does NOT want to help them.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:12am

      Either you pay $5 for a Foreign TShirt or $50 for a USA TShirt, I choose the $5 one

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    • rbcintexas
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:26am

      Yea, lets all run out and buy electric cars while Obama is shutting down coal fired power plants, nuclear power plants, oil and gas fired power plants leaving us with solar and wind that right now produce less than 3% of our power. Where are you going to charge these things and if you can, just imagine the cost.

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    • thoseontheleftwillbecast
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:05pm

      Very well said Diane!!! Thank you! The wacko nutcase obama elitists crunched all the two or three year old cars so that those of us who cannot afford new cars will not be able to buy a car. They want us to ride the bus. These environmentalist wacko eletists want the hard working class to ride the buses. It is amazing as he!! to me that everytime the left gets in office they do the same things and the same results happen. The price of everything goes up, everyone loses their jobs, and we are once again in a depressed state economically. Why do not the people see this? I blame it on the main stream media. I hold them totally responsible for all the racism and crap that is happening to this country right now. They hid from the entire country that obama is a racist marxist communist and deceived the entire country. I think they should be prosecuted when we have the next government in place.

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    • thoseontheleftwillbecast
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:16pm

      You can credit the main stream media for hiding the fact that the big o is marxist and deceiving theentire country. They want us middle class to ride the bus. The elites believe that we hard working people don’t deserve to drive cars so they crunched the two and three year old ones so we would be forced to ride the bus because we cannot afford new ones. The people cannot see that everytime the left gets in power we have another jimmy carter government. No jobs, high gas prices, tough times, shortage of eve;rything. I blame it on the msm and think they should be held responsible when the conservatives get back in power. Don’t be like bush; hold everyone of them accountible.

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  • doctroprint
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:41am

    I am a capitalist and at times I shop at the local walmart. My opinion of these people: I think their mindless, and they live life bassackwards. I do know that there is a huge anti walmart crowd out there and I do not understand what the blow back is over. I had a conversation with a friend and they posed a question to me and I have yet to do any research tho the question made me think about the practice of walmart as a corp. They are one of the worlds largest employers and from what I understand, they offer crap for an employment benefits pkg. With the workforce they have seems they could obtain the best of everything as they buy at same time of volume. Something does smell a little here if this is correct. I do not believe a stock person should make 30.00 an hour tho….NO unions. I as well know from doing business with many product suppliers, if any part of your product, from manufacturing to packaging to shipping is not produced with eco and economic sustainably, you will NOT have a product on their shelf. If your box plant that produces boxes is not energy efficient,
    you will not furnish any packaging to anyone who wishes to sell at walmart. It goes deeper than just that, trust me I could go on and on. Kinda strange..

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    • doctroprint
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:56am

      They seem to have an exception in their business practice when it comes to products from China, anything from the US, forget about it.

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    • GadsdenPatriot
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:59am

      “Crap” based on what standard? Do you presume that employment alone entitles one to a compensation package? If so, would you suggest giving sanctions to companies that don‘t or can’t afford to give these packages?

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:38am

    Barf bag please

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  • elphi43
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:38am

    The only thing your little protest proved was that leftest hate Walmat.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:09am

      All the leftist have to protest is a “Chinese” retailer…….. pretty sad when you think about it

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:30am

    Intmidation never works………..kick them out for loitering and disturbing the piece……..days of bullying are over, Walmart has a right to run its business the way it wishes too……when you grow up and own a business you can run it your way. If you donot like WalMart………..leave. You people have destroyed the education system, the car industry, overseas trade, housing crash, and Washington DC…to name a few.

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  • a true texan
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:30am

    Walmart, why didn’t you arrest them for trespassing? Don’t let them intimidate you!

    Hey Walmart employee, if your boss’ are mean and intimidating then QUIT NO ONE makes you work there! Loser go get a real job!.

    Oh, thats right I bet thats the only offer you had, you ungrateful pig, be appreciative that you are employed and in the mean time work on getting a “better” one or just quit I hear SEIU is paying protesters sounds like thats right up your alley!

    Since when do people who employee you owe you anything other than what the law requires.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:29am

    Thugs @ work .
    You don‘t like it don’t work there go & work @ the Obama’s mansion .

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:26am

    Socialists just hate Walmart… so successful, so NON Union…. Love Walmart!!!!

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  • SavingtheRepublic.com
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:22am

    ^____^____^
    At this point with the recent acts of violence by flashmobs in stores etc they should be stopped immediately. It is the businesses right to do as they please and have every right to stop these “mobs”. The cutesy ones in pavilions, food courts etc are harmless. The ones popping up in stores like this have ulterior motives.

    The radical left isnt very creative they have to steal something that is fun and entertaining and then turn it into a tactic of intimidation. You know folks there is no law saying the TEA party (take note of proper spelling!) or any patriotic conservative group to not give these radical organizations a dose of their own medicine!

    I just dont get you America you constantly sit back complaining yet ALLOWING the left to get away with every single “assault” on this nation. By the time you start standing up against them it will be too late! At least Lt Col West has the guts to start throwing it back, whats your excuse?
    http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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  • HK94dude
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:17am

    I hate hippies!

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:15am

    Hey Wal Mart employee, do you have a degree in economics?

    No?

    Then get back to work at your minimum wages.

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  • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:15am

    Original and clever. I’m sorry, I understand the message and the purpose. But how can you get angry over that.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:20am

      Because it is not government’s place – or the place of a bloody socialist collective such as SEIU – to demand that a business provide anything to their employes more than a safe working environment.

      Obamacare’s requirements are grossly dishonorable and so is this bull. At the point you start mandating things such as health care, pensions, and salary unto all businesses, you’re no longer a free market economy. You’re a national socialist market in all but name.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:02pm

      Rifleman-

      I agree with you. I am as conservative and constitutional as they come. My point was, at least they didn‘t show up at the manager’s home as they have before in the past. This was actually kind of funny. I don’t agree with any organized group forcing regulations on an individual business. I have a degree in Business Marketing (thus my lively hood depends on a capitalistic economy). That said, Walmart has had a lot of PR issues in the past stemming from its treatment of employees. I would rather the company resolve these issues on their own, than see its associates reach out to unions in hopes that such a move would force the company to meet their demands. And I am not just speaking about lack of benefits, I am talking about the company’s history of preferential treatment for promoting men over women when all other factors are equal. If a company wants to keep unions at bay, don’t fuel the fire and give employees the desire to seek such representation in the first place.

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  • MuyLocoNC
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:12am

    Walmart Sucks. I hate going into that place every time I have to. About the only thing I ever buy there is tires. Sam’s Club on the other hand Rocks! I do love me some Sam’s Club. They get a large portion of my family’s food expenditures.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:21am

      I know this is an obvious question and no disRESPECT intended, but if you hate Walmart, why shop there at all?

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:27am

      I used to have a membership in Sam’s Club, but no more. It was after I was told that I had to buy two bags of potato chips, when I only wanted one. I explained that I lived alone and didn’t want two bags of chips. They said “them da rules”, so I didn’t buy any chips at all.

      I‘m sure that Sam’s Club is great for families, but not for me.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:48am

      you do realize sams club and walmart are the same company right ??????

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  • ALibertarianCitizen
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:11am

    Should of kicked them out, and threatened to have them arrested for trespassing if they returned. Perhaps just have them arrested for D.O. Conduct or Trespassing.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:26am

      It was certainly their prerogative to do that. I think the manager was trying- who knows. I am honestly on the fence with Walmart. They add both value and destruction to a community. But, what I do know from prior research is that they really do not treat their employees very well.

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    • GadsdenPatriot
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:40am

      Silo, the so-called “destruction” Moore-on speaks of is a free market natrually finding a balance. Moore-on should have talked about the massive amount of jobs just one Walmart brings to a community. Instead of praising competition (which lowers prices) Moore-on bashed it and made his agenda-driven film all about the small companies and their high prices the community had trouble affording anyway. Yeah the same small businesses that ironically leftys like him seek to destroy by the unnatural means of taxation. In this socialist-induced sluggish economy, we all need the lowest prices we can get.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:40am

      @ SILO

      Retail is an inherently brutal business, because the demands for cheap goods forces businesses to work employees hard for low wages to maintain profit. I know this well, I used to be an assistant manager for a Family Dollar store. It is the nature of the business world: the less education and formal training you have, the more reliant you are on baser human skills suck as strength and repetition. This is also why I am a computer technician and not a Retail Asst Mgr now.

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  • GadsdenPatriot
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:10am

    This DEMONstration was very disrespectful.

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  • Mike777
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:10am

    I bunch of class A1 JERKS!!!

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:08am

    So this is the new liberal craze. Idiotic adolescent ‘flash’ mobs. Nothing more than moronic youtube stunts. This is all part of the whining and crying phase folks, next it will be outright vandalism.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:08am

    “E.A.R.N” yo money sugah,
    Shake yo a** and dip yo wick in obama stash.
    Nitwit communists.

    So odd they’d choose music from a famous and respected, black performer to attack a store many black people appreciate. These people would sell their mothers for a bag of crank. Get their names…

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  • dr_funk
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:07am

    If Walmart unionized, I would never shop there again. Ever. Unions are anti-capitalist mechanisms of socialism, and they have no place in a free market.

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    • truther2
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:07pm

      Hey Doc,

      Never going to a buy a USA Union Made New Car again? Good for you! Stick to the one’s made over seas by slave labor. Better quaity and lower price. Doesn’t Wal-mart essentially do the same thing when they have their products maded over seas by Non-union Labor? Gotta love those Chinese!

      Confused by the Pin Heads who are posting here. Now, least ye be a hypocrite, from this day forward; let the word go out – - nobody buys any Union made product producted here is the U.S.

      Let me know how that works out for ya’ll.

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  • DGeezy11
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:06am

    It is sad that all of these people are so brainwashed, they are weak minded and preyed on by the democrats and progressives. Sad to see that they can’t think for themselves. Sheep to the slaughter, and the herder doesn’t even care.

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  • Dont-hate-on-me-2
    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:06am

    All i have to say to that group is go back to the hole you crawled out of.

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    • GadsdenPatriot
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:14am

      I can tell these useful idiots don’t have the brain cells to know how demonic their agenda really is; the destruction of a company, higher prices to consumers, and less jobs to a comunity that needs them, that will be the end result of their stupidity.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:34pm

      There has got to be better ways to get your 15 minutes of fame.

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