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Respected Neighbor
Muscatine, IA
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Auto Bailout Solution

1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

2 . This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more From January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) Than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people And is the largest private employer. And most can't speak English

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company In the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food Than Kroger & Safeway combined, And keep in mind they did this In only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are SuperCenters;
This is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store.
(Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live Within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart

13.  Let Wal Mart bail out the auto industry.

 

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Respected Neighbor
muscatine
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yeah let the corporate world take care of itself. no more bailouts from the tax payers!!!!

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Respected Neighbor
Suburbia, USA
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13.  Let Wal Mart bail out the auto industry. 

 

Never happen. Instead, Wal-Mart would just start importing cheaply-made, crappy vehicles from China and sell them at a price that will undercut their competitors and force them out of business. After all, we are talking about Wal-Mart.