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Re: “Anything” Dyson that makes news.
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Carmine,
Why are you spending time defending this $375b “benevolent” giant. Instead why not post links here to the many hard hitting interviews (video or otherwise) asked of the Walmart suits. Many Americans are angry with Walmart, I along with them would like to hear explanations to the many social complaints that have been leveled at them and their company. Surely these benevolent suits are proud of their conduct and most assuredly they have nothing to hide.
DIB
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Re: “Anything” Dyson that makes news.
#2 Jan 4, 2009 7:32 pm |
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DIB: Like I said, you're very smart. You spin over dyson's move to Malaysia but condemn Wal*mart for its Chinese suppliers. Wal*Mart employs over 1.5 million Americans. By comparison, a considerably greater investment by Wal*Mart in America//Americans than dyson in the UK. Surely by your standard, W*M then is just as worthy of the same praise as given you for dyson if the reasons are investments in people/country. W*M is the largest company in the world. It contributes huge tax revenues every year to US local, state and Federal governments' coffers. These tax collections go to the most needy in the US in the form of financial assistance and free services. During Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, Wal*Mart's trucks were the first to arrive on the natural disaster scenes with food, water, medicine and supplies for the victims. Long before FEMA. The average Wal*Mart shopper earns over $60,000 yearly, up from $40,000. Wal*Mart now claims a customer base with yearly incomes from low to high. You are not only "elitist" to impugn the Wal*Mart shoppers as poor with low/middle class incomes, but you are also wrong! Carmine D. Carmine, I got my poor to lower-middle class info from someone who's friend sits/sat on the Walmart board. Unlike you, I do not make this stuff up. :) Walmart suits proudly proclaim in videotaped stockholder meetings what a wonderful service they provide and examples of how folks can have 2 extra weeks of food in their cupboards. They fail to mention how many they destroy to get this 2 weeks of food. Surely if legal, Walmart would gladly doze my home so it could then be sold as scrap to help lower their costs and the timber can be used to warm their needy. Sorry Carmine, profit taking, selfish group of men and women are not going to redefine what is good. Nor are they nearly as righteous as you would allow yourself to believe. Dyson bellied up with $100m to open a factory and to keep Britons working, bottom line is, he tried. I bet there is not a single document anywhere outlining Walmart trying to save manufacturing in America and it’s countless number of jobs (directly/indirectly). DIB
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Re: “Anything” Dyson that makes news.
#3 Jan 4, 2009 4:37 pm |
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Carmine,
Unfortunately, you omit Dyson’s pro-Britain/pro-British worker, $100m investment in his factory. Nor do you tell the story of Parliaments failure to keep British manufacturing British. Some in Parliament blamed their own government for failing their people and not Dyson, fact. When Tony Blair responded, he too did not blame Dyson.
Dyson has replaced these 450 factory workers with new hires and spends $100 researching future products. You support Red-Hoover all the while they eliminate American jobs with no new hires (thus far, it is not reported or can be found). Nor have I read anywhere where they invest in our country or it’s people.
I applaud Dyson for not falling into the trap of building product with the poor to lower-middle class as its base customer (*Walmarts base customer). Often times these folks feel entitled to a higher standard of living all the while they have not put in the work, investment, and/or sincerely gotten on their knees and asked for the answer. Since some in my family and some friends have a background it poverty and/or suffering and/or going against the odds only to ultimately win, I can comment and have a view.
DIB
*pre-economy melt down.
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Re: “Anything” Dyson that makes news.
#4 Jan 4, 2009 2:55 pm |
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Hello DIB: Tho dated, 2006, the PBS FRONTLINE is very good and a provocative presentation. I presume you dislike Wal*Mart for its push to Chinese [you like to impugn China/Asia] suppliers. I never noted any contempt for dyson's move to Malaysia [southeast Asia] using an existing "dual purpose" plant to produce/export dysons globally. Vice dyson expanding production at the existing Malmesbury UK plant and/or building a new plant [like he wanted to do for the engineering HS] for the effort. Dyson justified the move/foreign production by saying the labor costs in Malaysia were 30 percent lower than the UK. I suspect even more. Then, dyson raised vacuum prices to the consumers rather than lower [as Wal*Mart does and says is the reason for using lower cost Chinese suppliers]. Surely too you were outraged by dyson's contracts with Wal*Mart to sell 2 exclusive dyson upright models: DC07 All Carpets in 2003 for $359, and DC07 Original in 2006 for $378? Wal*Mart and dyson are due for another vacuum contract negotiation, no? Are you livid and lobbying hard against it? Carmine D. Carmine, Much is wrong with Walmart. It is too bad Americans who shop there are not willing or capable of forecasting their future. But if they had, they would not be in *need/dire need of cheap pricing at any cost. Americans will certainly be taught this lesson, only after it comes at their expense (aka The High Cost of Low Prices). My Father has plenty and it is His will that I have plenty and then sharing (investing in others, this country, etc.), this is the road I travel. As a realist, plenty of product will come from nations much poorer than ours. The men and women who are Walmart use the con of benevolence to mask it’s their power thirsty, greedy and destructive nature. It’s called - “mans fallen nature”. DIB *pre-economy collapse More videos/insight to those men who run Walmart... http://www.blinkx.com/video/mother-of-dead-soldier-sued-by-wal-mart-for-insurance-money/vtQfcy5P-5QBMEfRArFucQ
http://www.blinkx.com/video/tough-questions-for-wal-mart-propagandist/xIicMAFX0_eslwnyhttp://www.blinkx.com/video/retail-association-wins-lawsuit-against-state-over-wal-mart-bill/z23PHJpHLhphxS2eSV70SAhttp://www.blinkx.com/video/walmart-to-shell-out-up-to-640-million-to-settle-lawsuits/6ZB5kVA4GSNUi_wBt5sbfAhttp://www.blinkx.com/video/wal-mart-drops-suit-again-mentally-disabled-person-2-2/RB9DELomGOUZ-K0B2Pk6jgA commentary and claimed “Dead Dead Peasant' Policy” (F word used much)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik30ijaBgUA
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Oreck positioned to use Halo's technologies...
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