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StewiesMom · 08-01-2006, 09:11 AM

Pierre Omidyar of ebay has a stated goal of investing 150m this year alone in community. Google has created a foundation seeded with $1 billion. Bill gates has given away 58 % of his wealth.

Meanwhile the Walton family has donated less than 1 % to charity and recently it was reported that they contributed a mere $5k to a multi million dollar fund established by their employees to help fellow walmarters displaced by katrina.

http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpi...words_on_.html

Wow! How pathetic.

Zoey's Momma · 08-01-2006, 09:13 AM

That is friggin sad! I go to Wal*Mart at least 3 times a friggin week! They are pathetic! How dare they not contribute to the community!

StewiesMom · 08-01-2006, 09:15 AM

One million here and one million there may seem like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, Wal-Mart is a huge company with huge interests and they should be contributing MUCH MUCH MORE in my opinion

http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/24917/

Zoey's Momma · 08-01-2006, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StewiesMom

One million here and one million there may seem like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, Wal-Mart is a huge company with huge interests and they should be contributing MUCH MUCH MORE in my opinion

http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/24917/

I agree with you all the way.

chachi · 08-01-2006, 09:21 AM

That is terrible. I dont like shoping at Walmart anyway

Annabelles_mom · 08-01-2006, 09:22 AM

Wal mart sucks. The lines are too long on top of that. Screw them for their measily contributions.

Bill Gates is awesome, btw.

txshopper73 · 08-01-2006, 09:23 AM

VERY sad!

Rae Rae · 08-01-2006, 09:23 AM

Walmart is the stingiest store around!!! Did you guys know that having a walmart in a community actaully brings more poverty. It employs poeple of the community, but they get paid very low, usually minimum wage. Therefore, they have to get aid from the government. In Chicago they recently passed that if a walmart (and I think other retailers) plans to build w/ in the city, they have a higher minimum that they have to pay their employees. And there have been reports that the walmart/sams club corp. is sexist too. So I'm not surprised to hear that they didnt donate much either.

Great, now that I'm remembering all this stuff, I dont wanna shop there but I can help it

cheryl000 · 08-01-2006, 09:44 AM

I thought that during Katrina they opened all of their doors and told people to take what they needed?

As for Bill Gates, his motives are self-serving. He's killing more people through TRIPS than he's saving.

BILL GATES: KILLING AFRICANS FOR PROFIT AND P.R. -- MR. BUSH'S BOGUS AIDS OFFER
Monday, July 14, 2003
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=235&row=1

Bring back Jayson Blair! The New York Times has eliminated the scourge of plagiarized journalism by eliminating journalism altogether from its front page. Check this Sunday’s edition: “Bill Gates is no ordinary philanthropist,” gushes a Times reporter named Stephanie Strom, re-writing one of the digital diva’s self-loving press releases. Gates has saved 100,000 lives by providing vaccines to Africans, gushes Stephanie, according to someone on the payroll of … Bill Gates. And he’s making access to drugs for Africans, especially for AIDS victims, “cheaper and easier.” Stephanie knows because she asked Bill Gates himself!

Then we get to the real point of this journalistic Lewinsky: “Those who think of Mr. Gates as a ruthless billionaire monopolist … may find it hard to reconcile that image with one of a humorously self-deprecating philanthropist.

Actually, that's not hard at all.

Stephanie, let me let you in on a little secret about Bill and Melinda Gates so-called Foundation. Gate's demi-trillionaire status is based on a nasty little monopoly-protecting trade treaty called TRIPS the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights rules of the World Trade Organization. TRIPS gives Gates a hammerlock on computer operating systems worldwide, legally granting him the kind of monopoly the Robber Barons of yore could only dream of. But TRIPS, the rule which helps Gates rule, also bars African governments from buying AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis medicine at cheap market prices.

Example: in June 2000, at the urging of Big Pharma, Bill Clinton threatened trade sanctions against Argentina for that nation's daring to offer low-cost drugs to Southern Africa.

Gates knows darn well that intellectual property rights laws such as TRIPS which keep him and Melinda richer than Saddam and the Mafia combined are under attack by Nelson Mandela and front-line doctors trying to get cut-rate drugs to the 23 million Africans sick with the AIDS virus. Gate's brilliant and self-serving solution: he's spending an itsy-bitsy part of his monopoly profits (the $6 billion spent by Gates foundation is less than 2% of his net worth) to buy some drugs for a fraction of the dying. The bully billionaire's philanthropic organization is currently working paw-in-claw with the big pharmaceutical companies in support of the blockade on cheap drug shipments.

Gates game is given away by the fact that his Foundation has invested $200 million in the very drug companies stopping the shipment of low-cost AIDS drugs to Africa.

Gates says his plan is to reach one million people with medicine by the end of the decade. Another way to read it: he's locking in a trade system that will effectively block the delivery of medicine to over 20 million.

The computer magnates scheme has a powerful ally. The president could have been reading from a script prepared by Mr. Gates, enthuses the Times cub reporter, referring to Mr. Bushs AIDS plan offered up this week to skeptical Africans. The US press does not understand why Africans dont jump for Bushs generous handout. None note that the money held out to the continents desperate nations has strings attached or, more accurately, chains and manacles. The billions offered are mostly loans at full interest which may be used only to buy patent drugs from US companies at a price several times that available from other nations. What Africans want, an end to the devastating tyranny of TRIPS and other trade rules, is dismissed by the Liberator of Baghdad.

We are all serfs on Microsofts and Big Pharmas intellectual property. If Gates fake philanthropy eviscerates the movement to free Africans from the tyranny of TRIPS, then Bill and Melindas donations could have the effect of killing more Africans than then even their PR agents claim they have saved. And for our own Republic, we can only hope that when the bully-boy billionaire injects his next wad of loot into the Bush political campaign, he uses a condom.

alisonJ · 08-01-2006, 08:51 PM

Palast (author of the story above) never provides references or sources. I never know what to believe in his articles, and I'm a democrat!!

As for Walmart, they rely on the taxpayers to subsidize their payroll--their pay is so low that employees must still rely on public assistance. But cities like Chicago are wising up.

I refuse to shop there. I am still trying to convince my husband, however.

StewiesMom · 08-02-2006, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by alisonJ

Palast (author of the story above) never provides references or sources. I never know what to believe in his articles, and I'm a democrat!!

As for Walmart, they rely on the taxpayers to subsidize their payroll--their pay is so low that employees must still rely on public assistance. But cities like Chicago are wising up.

I refuse to shop there. I am still trying to convince my husband, however.

I have been looking for some more reliable sources. As everyone probably already knows, I am NOT one to believe anything I read. I have found some articles, but they all praise Wal-Mart for donating a million here and a million there, but like I said, that is NOTHING in relation to what they pull in in a year and how they treat their employees.

Shanatink · 08-02-2006, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StewiesMom

Pierre Omidyar of ebay has a stated goal of investing 150m this year alone in community. Google has created a foundation seeded with $1 billion. Bill gates has given away 58 % of his wealth.

Meanwhile the Walton family has donated less than 1 % to charity and recently it was reported that they contributed a mere $5k to a multi million dollar fund established by their employees to help fellow walmarters displaced by katrina.

http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpi...words_on_.html

Wow! How pathetic.

This is sad.

My best friends husband works at walmart- dont even get me started on how they treat thier employees. It makes me mad!

Yorkie3 · 08-02-2006, 09:03 AM

Here is Frankfort, Wal Mart is the only retail store we really have. There are some downtown, but who can afford them? I wish we had more to choose from because I just don't like Wal Mart. If I have extra money, I go to Lafayette once in a while, they have Target, Meijer, KMart and gobs of others!!!!

08-01-2006, 09:11 AM	#1
StewiesMom Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 6,306	FYI About Wal-Mart Pierre Omidyar of ebay has a stated goal of investing 150m this year alone in community. Google has created a foundation seeded with $1 billion. Bill gates has given away 58 % of his wealth. Meanwhile the Walton family has donated less than 1 % to charity and recently it was reported that they contributed a mere $5k to a multi million dollar fund established by their employees to help fellow walmarters displaced by katrina. http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpi...words_on_.html Wow! How pathetic. __________________ Kristy & Stewie

08-01-2006, 09:13 AM	#2
Zoey's Momma Luv My Butterflies Donating Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Big Easy Posts: 2,083	Disappointed!!!!!!! That is friggin sad! I go to Wal*Mart at least 3 times a friggin week! They are pathetic! How dare they not contribute to the community!

08-01-2006, 09:15 AM	#3
StewiesMom Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 6,306	One million here and one million there may seem like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, Wal-Mart is a huge company with huge interests and they should be contributing MUCH MUCH MORE in my opinion http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/24917/ __________________ Kristy & Stewie

08-01-2006, 09:21 AM	#5
chachi I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Posts: 37,147	That is terrible. I dont like shoping at Walmart anyway __________________ Chachi's & Jewels Mom Jewels http://www.dogster.com/?132431 Chachi http://www.dogster.com/?132427

08-01-2006, 09:23 AM	#7
txshopper73 Donating YT 14K Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 14,226 Blog Entries: 1	VERY sad! __________________ As always...JMO (Just My Opinion) Kimberley

08-01-2006, 09:22 AM	#6
Annabelles_mom No Longer a Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Louisiana Posts: 314	Wal mart sucks. The lines are too long on top of that. Screw them for their measily contributions. Bill Gates is awesome, btw.

08-01-2006, 09:23 AM	#8
Rae Rae YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Illinois Posts: 4,823	Walmart is the stingiest store around!!! Did you guys know that having a walmart in a community actaully brings more poverty. It employs poeple of the community, but they get paid very low, usually minimum wage. Therefore, they have to get aid from the government. In Chicago they recently passed that if a walmart (and I think other retailers) plans to build w/ in the city, they have a higher minimum that they have to pay their employees. And there have been reports that the walmart/sams club corp. is sexist too. So I'm not surprised to hear that they didnt donate much either. Great, now that I'm remembering all this stuff, I dont wanna shop there but I can help it

08-01-2006, 09:44 AM	#9
cheryl000 YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: none Posts: 1,495	I thought that during Katrina they opened all of their doors and told people to take what they needed? As for Bill Gates, his motives are self-serving. He's killing more people through TRIPS than he's saving. BILL GATES: KILLING AFRICANS FOR PROFIT AND P.R. -- MR. BUSH'S BOGUS AIDS OFFER Monday, July 14, 2003 http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=235&row=1 Bring back Jayson Blair! The New York Times has eliminated the scourge of plagiarized journalism by eliminating journalism altogether from its front page. Check this Sunday’s edition: “Bill Gates is no ordinary philanthropist,” gushes a Times reporter named Stephanie Strom, re-writing one of the digital diva’s self-loving press releases. Gates has saved 100,000 lives by providing vaccines to Africans, gushes Stephanie, according to someone on the payroll of … Bill Gates. And he’s making access to drugs for Africans, especially for AIDS victims, “cheaper and easier.” Stephanie knows because she asked Bill Gates himself! Then we get to the real point of this journalistic Lewinsky: “Those who think of Mr. Gates as a ruthless billionaire monopolist … may find it hard to reconcile that image with one of a humorously self-deprecating philanthropist. Actually, that's not hard at all. Stephanie, let me let you in on a little secret about Bill and Melinda Gates so-called Foundation. Gate's demi-trillionaire status is based on a nasty little monopoly-protecting trade treaty called TRIPS the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights rules of the World Trade Organization. TRIPS gives Gates a hammerlock on computer operating systems worldwide, legally granting him the kind of monopoly the Robber Barons of yore could only dream of. But TRIPS, the rule which helps Gates rule, also bars African governments from buying AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis medicine at cheap market prices. Example: in June 2000, at the urging of Big Pharma, Bill Clinton threatened trade sanctions against Argentina for that nation's daring to offer low-cost drugs to Southern Africa. Gates knows darn well that intellectual property rights laws such as TRIPS which keep him and Melinda richer than Saddam and the Mafia combined are under attack by Nelson Mandela and front-line doctors trying to get cut-rate drugs to the 23 million Africans sick with the AIDS virus. Gate's brilliant and self-serving solution: he's spending an itsy-bitsy part of his monopoly profits (the $6 billion spent by Gates foundation is less than 2% of his net worth) to buy some drugs for a fraction of the dying. The bully billionaire's philanthropic organization is currently working paw-in-claw with the big pharmaceutical companies in support of the blockade on cheap drug shipments. Gates game is given away by the fact that his Foundation has invested $200 million in the very drug companies stopping the shipment of low-cost AIDS drugs to Africa. Gates says his plan is to reach one million people with medicine by the end of the decade. Another way to read it: he's locking in a trade system that will effectively block the delivery of medicine to over 20 million. The computer magnates scheme has a powerful ally. The president could have been reading from a script prepared by Mr. Gates, enthuses the Times cub reporter, referring to Mr. Bushs AIDS plan offered up this week to skeptical Africans. The US press does not understand why Africans dont jump for Bushs generous handout. None note that the money held out to the continents desperate nations has strings attached or, more accurately, chains and manacles. The billions offered are mostly loans at full interest which may be used only to buy patent drugs from US companies at a price several times that available from other nations. What Africans want, an end to the devastating tyranny of TRIPS and other trade rules, is dismissed by the Liberator of Baghdad. We are all serfs on Microsofts and Big Pharmas intellectual property. If Gates fake philanthropy eviscerates the movement to free Africans from the tyranny of TRIPS, then Bill and Melindas donations could have the effect of killing more Africans than then even their PR agents claim they have saved. And for our own Republic, we can only hope that when the bully-boy billionaire injects his next wad of loot into the Bush political campaign, he uses a condom.

08-01-2006, 08:51 PM	#10
alisonJ YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tucson, Arizona Posts: 1,840	Palast (author of the story above) never provides references or sources. I never know what to believe in his articles, and I'm a democrat!! As for Walmart, they rely on the taxpayers to subsidize their payroll--their pay is so low that employees must still rely on public assistance. But cities like Chicago are wising up. I refuse to shop there. I am still trying to convince my husband, however. __________________ Alison--Edith Jones's mother www.edithjonesproject.com

08-02-2006, 09:03 AM	#13
Yorkie3 Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 4,685	Here is Frankfort, Wal Mart is the only retail store we really have. There are some downtown, but who can afford them? I wish we had more to choose from because I just don't like Wal Mart. If I have extra money, I go to Lafayette once in a while, they have Target, Meijer, KMart and gobs of others!!!! __________________ Janet