A Panopoly Of Wal-Mart Facts

You won't find these facts at Walmartfacts.com. Go to the facts section of walmartmovie.com to read how:

The Walton Family saves $91,500.00 per hour in Federal Taxes (and they don't do it by shopping at Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart drives down retail wages by $3,000,000,000 a year.

California subsidizes Wal-Mart to the tune of $86,000,000 a year.

HealthCare:

FLORIDA: 12,300 WAL-MART Workers and their Dependents on Medicaid
GEORGIA: 10,261 Children of WAL-MART Employees are Enrolled in PeachCare for Kids
TENNESSEE: 9,617 WAL-MART Workers on TennCare

WAL-MART Costs Taxpayers $1,557,000,000,00 to Support its Employees

Lawsuits:

$50 MILLION to settle an off-the-clock class action suit in Colorado

Wal-Mart is paying eleven million dollars to settle Federal allegations it used illegal immigrants to clean its stores.

Wal-Mart is facing a class-action lawsuit for discrimination against $1.6 million former and current female employees.

Wal-Mart currently faces lawsuits in thirty-one different States for wage and hour abuses potentially involving hundreds of thousand workers.

Currently in the U.S. there are 26,699,678 SQUARE FEET of empty WAL-MARTS

Environment:

2001: EPA orders WAL-MART to pay $1.0 MILLION fine for Clean Water Violations in: TEXAS, OKLAHOMA AND MASSACHUSETTS

2004: WAL-MART fined $3.1 MILLION by EPA, the largest ever for a retailer, for Clean Water Act violations in TEXAS, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, DELAWARE, MICHIGAN, SOUTH DAKOTA, NEW JERSEY, TENNESSEE and UTAH

2005: Connecticut EPA orders WAL-MART to pay $1.15 MILLION for Clean Water Act violations in 22 stores


WAL-MART Imported $18 BILLION from CHINA in 2004
Lee Scott earnings for 2005: $27,207,799
Average WAL-MART Hourly Sales Employee Earnings: $13,861

HELEN WALTON: $18.0 BILLION
ALICE WALTON: 18.0 BILLION
JOHN WALTON: 18.2 BILLION
ROB WALTON: $18.3 BILLION
JIM WALTON: $18.3 BILLION

The WALTON FAMILY Has Given LESS THAN 1% of Their Wealth to Charity
Bill Gates has given 58%

The links for supporting information and documents are there too. We, the WalMart shoppers, actually deserve the credit for alot of this crap. What we won't do for "Everyday Low Prices".