Welcome back, Buck, you make me smile on Black Saturday (-:
________________________________ From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 6:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Thursday --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@> wrote: > > > > I'm just thankful it's not being made a racial issue...yet. > > > > Yeah. Those brown people always cause such a fuss just so they can get more > stuff. > > "A half century ago America's largest private-sector employer was General > Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of around $50, > in today's dollars, including health and pension benefits. > > Today, America's largest employer is Walmart, whose average employee > earns $8.81 an hour. A third of Walmart's employees work less than 28 hours > per week and don't qualify for benefits. > I should like to see our David Lynch Foundation work with the TM-Raja towards developing a subsidy to enable retail workers to learn meditation. If these workers are only working 29 hours a week they certainly have the time to help everything by meditating. Scale the price of meditating to the 29 hour a week worker earning $8.81 an hour. That would be helpful. Magnanimous even. -Buck, the Apostle > There are many reasons for the difference – including globalization and > technological changes that have shrunk employment in American manufacturing > while enlarging it in sectors involving personal services, such as retail. > > But one reason, closely related to this seismic shift, is the decline of > labor unions in the United States. In the 1950s, over a third of > private-sector workers belonged to a union. Today fewer than 7 percent do. As > a result, the typical American worker no longer has the bargaining clout to > get a sizeable share of corporate profits. > > Despite decades of failed unionization attempts, Walmart workers are > planning to strike or conduct some other form of protest outside at least > 1,000 locations across the United States this Friday – so-called "Black > Friday," the biggest shopping day in America when the Christmas holiday > buying season begins. > > At the very least, the action gives Walmart employees a chance to air > their grievances in public – not only lousy wages (as low at $8 an hour) but > also unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, excessive hours, and sexual > harassment. The result is bad publicity for the company exactly when it wants > the public to think of it as Santa Claus. > > Consumer spending is 70 percent of economic activity, but consumers are > also workers. And as income and wealth continue to concentrate at the top, > and the median wage continues to drop – it's now 8 percent lower than it was > in 2000 – a growing portion of the American workforce lacks the purchasing > power to get the economy back to speed. Without a vibrant and growing middle > class, Walmart itself won't have the customers it needs. > > Most new jobs in America are in personal services like retail, with low > pay and bad hours. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the > average full-time retail worker earns between $18,000 and $21,000 per year. > > But if retail workers got a raise, would consumers have to pay higher > prices to make up for it? A new study by the think tank Demos reports that > raising the salary of all full-time workers at large retailers to $25,000 per > year would lift more than 700,000 people out of poverty, at a cost of only a > 1 percent price increase for customers. > > And, in the end, retailers would benefit. According to the study, the > cost of the wage increases to major retailers would be $20.8 billion — about > one percent of the sector's $2.17 trillion in total annual sales. But the > study also estimates the increased purchasing power of lower-wage workers as > a result of the pay raises would generate $4 billion to $5 billion in > additional retail sales." > > http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/dont_shop_at_wal_mart_on_friday/ > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Bhairitu <noozguru@> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:45 AM > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Thursday > > > > > > Â > > > > This is also probably a generational clash. I know a lot of younger > > people who might have gone to a movie or played a video game would > > probably like to make the extra dough on Black Thursday and Friday. > > Many find family gatherings "old fashion" and have not much interest in > > them. I even recall in high school that after turkey dinner at my > > cousins we (the younger set) would go out to a movie. > > > > But hey, this is Kapitalist Amerika where kapitalism is celebrated by > > the masses though most of them couldn't give you a proper definition of > > it. :-D > > > > On 11/21/2012 03:59 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > > > And if they(shoppers) do that, they(retailers) won't open on Thanksgiving > > > next year. Market forces at work. > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: awoelflebater <mailto:no_reply%40yahoogroups.com> > > > To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:55 PM > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Thursday > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> > > > wrote: > > >> This year, Black Friday has become BLACK THURSDAY. Employees will work > > >> 12-14 hour shifts, beginning at 4 or 6 pm on THANKSGIVING DAY. Workers > > >> have been told that "there will be consequences" which means getting > > >> fired. Workers need their jobs. The message needs to come FROM THE > > >> PUBLIC that the big box retailers have chosen an irrational and > > >> offensive way to do business. Tell the people who run those stores that > > >> you will not shop on Thursday. Tell them that disrespecting a national > > >> holiday for families to be together bothers you. 1-800-WALMART, > > >> 800-440-0680 is the number for Target. > > > The whole thing is patently ridiculous. Can people not stop shopping for > > > 24 hours?! Everyone should just stay home and eat on Thanksgiving. Maybe > > > even spend a little time with family. How's that for a concept? > > >> > > >> [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lL87ygk3F94/UK0O33nU-cI/AAAAAAAABos/\ > > >> mbmM4hVwhF8/s512/WalMart.jpg] > > >> > > > > > > > > >
