Comments for Wal-Mart supersizing at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 79 out of 20 comments http://tracypress.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:26:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56248 To whom it may concern: Knows all sees all, who is it? t. b - Tom Benigno Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:41:03 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56071 Hmmm...? Interesting. OK, who are you, and what have you done with the real Dave Hardesty? - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:56:06 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56062 KL BTW, I have always been against things like NAFTA and Preferred Trading Partners. I subscribe to the notion it's best to sweep your own porch before you start sweeping someone elses. In other words, take care of what is at home first before you set forth to fix the rest of the world. Yes, we need to be aware of things in the rest of the world and help those who are unable to help themselves. But giving help to nations that use that help against us and our own people is a rather stupid thing to do if you ask me. It does no American any good to see jobs that were being held by Americans transported off shore to some third world nation for the sake of cheap labor and lack of basic sanitization and environmental protection laws. But it sure makes the investor's stock portfolio look good when these companies cut their cost of operation by relocating to some poor impoverished third world nation who seems to resent us for giving them the business, both metaphorically and in reality. Nite nite and sleep well. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:52:14 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56060 KL Oh yes, I am aware of the drop in consumption and fully understand the marketing concept. I also agree with you that all of us need to stop talking and start doing. You are correct about dealing with this since the 70s and to date nothing much has been done about the problem except to talk it to death. After 30 years of talking about it with nothing getting done hopefully people will stop talking and do something about it. But as long as they talk and their elected representatives talk nothing gets done and the problem get's worse. You did pose an interesting question about $200,000 college loans being paid off at WalMart wages. Unless the person graduating from college takes a position in marketing for WalMart I would expect such an individual to find employment more sutable to his or her education level. The same question use to be asked regaring McDonalds and how many AA degrees it took to work at the hamburger flippers station. If those people want to work in those places it's their business. But it sure seems to be a waste of a good education to me. Another point to match my pointed head. Did we ever consider if we were not subsidizing the higher education for many who are not citizens of this country and tuitions lower than the average resident of this country would be required to pay, might not everything, tuition wise, become cheaper? If they can't make the tuition money from everyone then it seems they concentrate on raising the tuition monies paid by residents of our nation. Say, that sounds strangely like the way our hospitals and public medecine works today. Just something for you to muse over before you turn in tonight. ;)Catch up with you tomorrow. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:45:44 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56057 cont. One resounding question still remains: [i]...are you at risk of flight?[/i] - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:20:28 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56047 I'll shall attempt to abait the Ohm's Law theory in the hopes of leaving a carbon footprint no larger than an igloo. Interesting: Cheesecake-Pie? Are you mad? By the way, "they'll be calling you "a green terrorist" by recommending counceling sessions for one's civil disobedience. No offense to your indgenious right to protest. But wait! That's just the beginning, They'll call you a heritic for comparing Wall-Mart to the Evil "B", or demanding transparency under local govt. (Remember VP. Chenney exists "in the fourth branch of govt.?") They'll suggest "you speak in tounges," ROI, BKK, GTA, Gpa's or name dropping like, solar panels, Preposiion H, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gharamendi, Oreo cookies and a Bail Bonds office located next to Bow Tie. And your affection, nar I say obsession, with trains -shall only lead to one thing: Instant martyrdom. My only suggestion is you drop this silly charade of "lower prices," "going green," "transparency" (not to be confused with Trans-fa(c)ts?) since in the absence of "they" (never really saying who "they" (really are) there's no fair equity of trial lawyers) and simply confess to being the original American "X" file, that you are. "Skully...?" "Maulder...?" Maybe it's not God whose sending the message...?" - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:31:08 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56006 KL, Shocking! It could be a phase you're going through? But please do not try solving polar rectangular equations with each slice of inherently latent cheeze cake pie. ;) - Tracy RealNews Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:32:43 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56005 TRN; Indeed recalpitulative, reciprol, rap8)ar'tee makes for a strange "Thinking inside the Triangle" geometry, especially for most of us still under the influence of "The Gregorian Calendar." Or was that logograms squared by ROI(GTA x BKK +/- GDP ) divided by the GTA = Preposition H? Amy; Pie a la mode with cheese? "O-o-o-h-h-m, o-oh-mm, oh-mmm, mmmm...":) [i]I have heard of these places...[/i];) Craig; You too, nice hair.:D - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:30:34 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-56004 KL, Bright idea!!! And of course, after the WalMart expansion, I'm sure you will be able to [u]conduct[/u] a "one stop shop" and even purchase desert at the "low prices". ;) - Tracy RealNews Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:21:30 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55997 Pie a la mode? ;) -amy - amy Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:51:56 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55991 Sorry, TRN, Ohms Law (wheel) was as about as far as I got. (Another brilliant bit of stylistic writing). Not to be confused with the Cheese Wheel, "ohm, ohm, ohm, zzz..." Lets see was that P over E = I Or, P = IE? Solving for resistance may be futile. I'll settle for PIE. - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:18:16 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55979 Right! Start up plants making solar panels, wind mills, necessities for geo thermal and so on to supply alternative energy to the rest of America, hope they hurry up with that before foreigners start mass producing! Employ our Americans by the American based jobs! -amy - amy Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:46:14 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55968 Can we get retailers to put solar cells on their roofs. Build green buildings. Let's get "low prices" on energy costs too? Green! Made right here in America! - Tracy RealNews Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:11:26 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55966 Tracy RealNews! Your last comment got me laughing hard! Shame on you! ;) -amy - amy Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:09:16 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55963 Yes, I do understand, we do need people of those specialized fields, now working on nanotechnology at the Oregon Health and Science University, technology does reguire one steeped in education. How to we get these people gainfully employed? Alternative energy? Would the energy company hire the people from foreign countries do the work here, like Bill Gates when he asked for visas for employees highly skilled from India!!! Where are the jobs that call for that level of education? Just worried that we may have to lower our world status that we are no longer the super power of the world. It seems that we either go global or continue the war, depends on the outcome of the vote. Sure wish I had a crystal ball here to tell me who would be the vice presidential candidate and whom they would appoint to the cabinets!!! We are in for a wild, interesting ride! -amy - amy Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:56:10 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55959 Preposition H? Useful for the next administration??? That is something that I shall not up with put! ;) - Tracy RealNews Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:44:31 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55949 How does one pay off a $200,000 dollar student loan working at Wal-Mart? TRN; -A president, gifted even with a degree in constituional law, some insight, and rock-star karisma is still only as good as the people he surrounds himself with. (Did I just end a sentence with a preposition? ;) Example: Look at our current administration. :'( - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:19:59 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55938 Embed math calculations in GTA. Learn how to use KBB to calculate ROI. That should get their attention span. [quote] We need more, engineers, scientist, lab techs, doctors, R & D, etc., etc. all in the fields of alternate energy sources, water treatment, agriculture, medicine -and just maybe when the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is over ("yeah right!"), we'll be able to spend some gov't monies on college subsidies to help offset the price of tuition. [/quote] Cue the next Barak Obama clip! Promises! Promises! " " - Tracy RealNews Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:48:30 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55926 Amy; Unfortunetly [i]scope[/i] is much more myopic. My [i]vision quest[/i] is to put our kids back into college where, Americans can develop it's HUMAN resource. We need more, engineers, scientist, lab techs, doctors, R & D, etc., etc. all in the fields of alternate energy sources, water treatment, agriculture, medicine -and just maybe when the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is over ("yeah right!"), we'll be able to spend some gov't monies on college subsidies to help offset the price of tuition. There will always be plenty of jobs in RETAIL, I fear. - k.l.vosburg Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:08:11 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15350/2244/#comment-55917 Just too much monopoly on oil and we are at their mercy? -amy - amy Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:32:31 +0100