Watching Wal-Mart Watch

Wal-Mart Watch is a website that is well...watching WalMart. These yahoos scan the news to find any crumb of bad news for the world's largest employer.

Let's look who is leading and funding this little project:

Andrew Stern, President, Service Employees International Union

Makes sense, as unions have been hemorrhaging members for years and getting WalMart to go union would instantly save SEIU.

Judy Lichtman, Founder, National Partnership for Women & Families

A left-leaning organization that was created and continues to be a feminist organization. They hilariously label themselves as "non-partisan".

Chellie Pingree, President and CEO, Common Cause

Another "non-partisan" leftish organization that lead the charge against Tom DeLay. Notice they use the word Republican but not Democrat. Their blog seems pretty damn partisan.

Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club

I don't even have to comment

Roger Wilkins, George Mason University

Former Editorial Board member of the NY Times and worked as a reporter at the Washington Post. Won a Pulitzer for contributing to the Watergate effort. University professor. Sounds like a real centrist to me.

Ed Goeas, The Tarrance Group

Now he is an interesting one, he is a "Republican pollster" and has an impressive bio. By all accounts he is known as a Republican. Why would he be against WalMart? It must be for money because this guy has a long list of pro-WalMart clients.

So, we have a hardcore group of Democrats and one irstwhile Republican who are out to embarrass WalMart at every turn. The main big supporters are unions.

They list the issues they have with WalMart here. The list is all the typical liberal rhetoric: low pay, no company provided health insurance, blah, blah, blah.

Here's news for you folks at WalMart Watch, the employees who work at WalMart have options. Those options include leaving and working somewhere else, going to school to learn a trade that would either make them more valuable to WalMart or another employer or borrow some money and go into business for themselves. It's pretty simple.

No one is forced to work at WalMart or any other company for that matter and other opportunitie exist.

To sum up, the simple fact is that the unions want to get their sticky fingers into WalMart's coffers and will do anything, up to and including lying, to accomplish that goal.

As I said before, unions led once-great firms such as GM right into the ground causing huge layoffs, now they want to do it to WalMart and WalMart rightfully is fighting them.

These groups act as if they care about the environment and workers rights but I guarantee that if WalMart decided to allow unions tomorrow, this site would disappear.