UPDATED: Goldberg responds; Anti-Obama books banned at Walmart?

Ahhhh, and the great censorship begins.

izoneguy (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 12:11PM EST (link)

What’s next? Union thugs breaking into the printing plants where anti-Obama books are printed and destroying the presses? I wonder if union shops printed these books?

Sounds like Germany in 1933.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/09/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Nazi-Anniversary.php

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

Nope, the next step is WalMart doesn't oppose EFCA.

Achance (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 12:14PM EST (link)

As I’ve said repeatedly, the business community, at least the big business community, doesn’t care what labor costs so long as everyone pays the same. All it would take is an assurance that the government will force their competitors under the pattern agreement too, and thy say, “where do I sign?”

In Vino Veritas

How does that differ from Corporatism/Facism?

civil truth (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:00PM EST (link)

Especially if the unions follow the Andy Stern SEIU model of becoming a fixture of the Democratic party and negotiating sweetheart deals with business. Mix that up with ECFA and it sounds an awful like like a reincarnation of Italian Fascism. Especially when they set the brownshirts out against free-market conservatives and other political opponents.

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

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There was a reason I was writing about coordination

Achance (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:21PM EST (link)

in Weimar and early Nazi Germany. Except the US version includes the unions where the Nazis ruthlessly suppressed them.

In Vino Veritas

Which was why I specifically backed off from Nazi Germany as an example

civil truth (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:09PM EST (link)

…because Hitler wiped out the unions. I’m not that familiar with Mussolini’s Italy, but was under the impression there there was more of a big union-big business collaboration under government asupices.

Though actually, for about six months or so, I’ve been struck with the parallels between our current situation and post-war England – how they threw out the Conservatives who’d just won the war and the labor-business socialist state that ensued until Thatcher did a brave job of cutting off many of the roots.

The post-Thatcher history shows how virtually impossible it is to reverse a welfare ethic. Which is a sobering warning as to how crucial the next 2-4 years will be.

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

What about Stock Price?

djemi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:27PM EST (link)

or are they private

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So they aren't really against unions? nt

mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 12:45PM EST (link)

nt

I'm sure they'd prefer not to be union,

Achance (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:19PM EST (link)

but so long as their competitors don’t have an advantage, they don’t care that much. The real problem beyond labor costs is that any place where unions have power in government, they make a business’s life miserable for permitting, for taxes, for financing expansion, even for simple stuff like getting the cops to come and pick up a shoplifter or the prosecutor to actually prosecute one – yes it does get to that level. It is a lot easier for a business to get along with the government than to not get along, so if unions influence the government, making nice with unions makes good business sense, at least for a while.

In Vino Veritas

Thanks for explaining. :)

mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:53PM EST (link)

How do we prevent unions from getting power in the government?

That bridge is already burned, but generally the answer

Achance (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:11PM EST (link)

is that you elect Republicans, though that’s not true of all Republicans. Some suffer from the abused children syndrome and think if they’re just a little nicer to the unions, the unions will like them.

In Vino Veritas

What the F*&%

djemi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 12:54PM EST (link)

Came anyone say Facist.

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Mr. Sam is dead and gone, the W kids are all about the dollar

olsmithie (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:18PM EST (link)

They will not let anything get between them and the dollar bill, REgardless of whose pimpled backside they must kiss.
They will not chance irritating the “One.”

REgards

I thought wm was good, that they fund

mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:52PM EST (link)

private school scholarships for school ages kids. I thought that is why the NEA hates them.
Sam’s is realy good. I know several women that are single grandparents (raising their grandchildren) that work there. They have insurance and stock buying and retirement matching. Walmart is the same way, they will give anyone an opportunity. I’ve seen friends that came out of a difficult period and get a $10/hour + overtime job at Walmart and get on their feet again in just a few weeks. Minimum wage is only $7 something around here.

should we all call Walmart?

thetexan (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:22PM EST (link)

should we all call Walmart?

OR

djemi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:30PM EST (link)

maybe we should all stop shopping there.

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other places are so expensive :(

mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:03PM EST (link)

Savealot/Aldi type of places are less expensive but they do not have everything.
I don’t know how I could boycott them long term. The other grocery stores charge a higher % on their food. Walmart has almost everything generic, many grocery stores do not have such a big line of generic foods.

generic tuna at Savealot is .69 cents/ a can
generic tuna at Walmart is .82
Regular grocery store doesn’t even have generic and it’s over $1.20/can

Beef Stew (dinty more) is $2.00 a Walmart
$2.29 at regular grocery store
Generic Spagettios are .50 cents at Save alot
.54 cents at Walmart (name brand is $1/ can at Walmart)
$1.00 a can for generic at the grocery store.
I didn’t even look at the name brand at the gocery store.

For non processed food like fruit and meat the price differences are even more dramatic.
Walmart food seems to be fresher, even the canned stuff has a longer exp date. Sam’s has the best produce too and they have a mbg on it if you buy something rotten.

It doesn't need to be long term

djemi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:14PM EST (link)

just long enough for the WalMart to see a drop in revenue

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sounds like a plan! :-) nt

mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:18PM EST (link)

Try

djemi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:54PM EST (link)

Wal-Mart Ethics 1-800-WM-ETHIC Questions regarding Wal-Mart Ethics

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thanks for the phone number

thetexan (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:04PM EST (link)

thanks for the phone number

I got through to this one

djemi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 2:08PM EST (link)

Customer Service 1-800-Wal-Mart
(1-800-925-6278) Questions regarding a Wal-Mart Store issue

Told them that I would stop shopping at WalMart if this policy of political interference contiues.

In fact maybe this is something for the Redstate Army to take up.

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why

Janice Cantore Monday, March 2nd at 11:46PM EST (link)

Obama hates WalMart, do they think that this policy will make him like them??

Janice Cantore

Obama and Hillary didn't hate WalMart enough...

Husker (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 3:03AM EST (link)

Obama and Hillary didn’t hate WalMart enough not to have their books sold on its shelves. WalMart’s claim about selling only fiction books on their shelves is total bull.
The Audacity of Hope and Living History have been on the shelves at WalMart as featured “in store” authors.

Yeah, that's total BS...

mikefisk (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 8:11AM EST (link)

…I bought Ann Coulter’s newest book from Wal-Mart.

Apparently it’s not a “no anti-Obama books” policy, either.

“Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant.” – Michael Fisk

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More importantly, BHO's friends hate WalMart,

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 3:30AM EST (link)

specifically his union friends.

In Vino Veritas

Have you checked Wal-Mart.com?

Herodotus Tuesday, March 3rd at 1:45PM EST (link)

Acording to wal-mart.com you can buy this book from Wal-Mart for $13.00.

link: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?povid=cat582376-env205791-module205792-rLink4&product_id=10826748

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