AAARRRGHGH Have you seen this Walmart ad?

[dflprincess]

It's for Veteran's Day. They start off with an elderly man talking about joing the service when he was 17 who says "I was scared to death, but we were fighting for our freedom..."

Then they show Walmart "associates" who are vets and list what war they fought in. There's one guy and under his name it says "War on Terrorism"

I just can't stand it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Sounds like Wally World.

Jeez.

[EV1Ltimm]

2. He should have said...

"I fought my way from Paris to Berlin and all I got was a job at Wal-Mart"

[dansolo]

3. What the hell is he doing at WalMart?

Ship him off to Afghanastan or Iraq.

[robsul82]

4. "I'm a soldier...and now I sell edited copies of Eminem CDs!"

It's a wonderful life, eh? ;)

Later.

RJS

[UserJohnny1479]

5. Why not start a DU boycott of Walmart?

It would help get the media here and hurt the man keeping us down.

[onebigbadwulf]

7. Okay

I will boycott wal-mart too

[dflprincess]

10. I already refuse to shop there

I caused all sorts of havoc with a couple friends. We were planning a surprise birthday party for another friend. The two I was planning with decided we'd get the food at Sam's Club. I told them this would not happen if they expected me to kick any money in. I'd rather pay more and shop at a union store. I told them why to no avail. In the end, I took part of the grocery list and went to the store of my choice.

[EV1Ltimm]

17. i tried that. my wife still made me go.

[ShaneGR]

6. I'm a veteran... and now I make $6.00 an hour greeting people at the door

BASTARD WALMART.

[gardenista]

8. Well that cap's gonna blow up in their faces!

What is the real message there?

Serve your country, and you end up with a shit job in some shithole where they keep your wages low because you're competing with undocumented workers who can be exploited to work for minimum wage, 7 days a week with NO time off.

Even the pickuptruckdrivinistflagwavinistBushvoter is gonna catch on that these vets are being exploited.

Huge PR mistake.

[Cat Atomic]

9. Hmm- anybody from the war on illiteracy? Or maybe the war

on cancer?

[dflprincess]

11. And nobody from the war on drugs

or the war on poverty (that's one Walmart would rather forget).

[BiggJawn]

12. I don't work for WallyWorld, but I'm a Veteran of the War on Poverty...

My side lost.

[robsul82]

13. 'Sides...

Target's a better store than Wal-Mart is, plus it doesn't have the white trash connotation. Exxxxxxxxxcellent. :D

Later.

RJS

[Military Brat]

14. OMG - they're exploiting our troops in Iraq

Someone call the whitewash House, we can't have this sort of sh** going on in America!

[rucky]

15. That's How Walmart Expects their Employees to Get Medical

[frank frankly]

16. Wal Mart is everything that is wrong

no-union
retail "labor" workforce
100% imported disposable junk
McDonalds
Hatriotric as can be

and then there are the consumers who consume there.

a terrible place.

[Gemini Cat]

18. Walmart vets:

They fought for freedom and such, only to lose their freedom by the Walmart slave system. Some freedom.

[w4rma]

19. At a Walmart near me, inside near the bathrooms where you can't miss them

is a huge stand full of Bush photo books with Bush's aircraft carrier landing and other jingoistic pictures of him all throughout the magazines.

I think the title of this magazine was: How George W. Bush Changed the World.

I wanted to go into a bathroom and :puke: when I first saw the stand of Bush propagannda.

[IADEMO2004]

20. Walmart: All American on the outside

All China on the inside