Caymen,
Employee's of Wal-Mart are not slaves. They are paid a salary that they agreed to accept when they started working there, and I am sure that many have gotten pay raises over the years. All Wal-mart employee's are paid at or above the Federally mandatated minimum wage.
A slave would be someone who Wal-Mart dragged off the street at gunpoint and said you will work for Wal-Mart, and you cannot leave even if you don't like the pay or benefits.
I agree that I would not work for those wages, but to someone with little education, and no marketable skills, that job may be a blessing.
Wal-Mart hires many people who people who would otherwise could not get a job at other employers, especially senior citizens who would never be hired by most other employers.
Don't believe all you heare or see on the Internet about what American businesses are doing overseas. Much of that is often fabricated by disgruntled employees, Unions, and other liberal groups who only want to destroy American businesses.
A number of years ago a Food Lion supermarket open near my house. The food was good, the prices were very good and the employees were very pleasant. About 6 months later there were several TV shows like 20/20 and Dateline that did a hatchet job on the Food Lion stores with stories from disgruntled employees claiming that the stores were putting bleach on their meat so it would look fresher and changing expiration dates etc. Well over the next six months Food Lion closed all of it's stores including the new store they opened in my town.
Later it was reported that a bunch of disgruntled employees had made up those stories because Food Lion stores were not a Union stores and they could not convince their fellow emplyees to join the union.
So in the end, the Food Lion went out of business, and all the employees lost their jobs because a small group of disgruntled employees lied in hope they would get a little more money or benefits, when all they had to do was quit and go get a job at a union store.
...Rich
