This should boggle your mind!! And scare you as well!

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

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 5.8133333% margin

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 Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing transactions 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 Wall Street.

 
Origins:   No doubt, Wal-Mart is the behemoth of the retail business world. In November 2008, as many other retailers were retrenching while experiencing plummeting sales figures amidst a severe economic downturn, Wal-Mart's same-stores sales actually exceeded its expectations, increasing by 3.4 percent over the previous year. The figures cited above attempt to place the scale of Wal-Mart's operations in context, demonstrating how truly large it is even in comparison with the other top retails chains in the U.S.

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

According to Wal-Mart's corporate fact sheet, the chain recorded $374,526,000,000 in sales for the fiscal year ending 31 January 2008. That works out to an average of $42,754,109 in sales per hour (although this figure includes worldwide revenues, not just money spent by Americans).
 

This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 5.8133333% margin

Given the figures provided in the previous entry and this entry (sales of $36,000,000 per hour at a 5.8% profit margin), that would work out to a profit of approximately $34,880 per minute, not $20,928. For the $42,754,109 worldwide sales figure we used above, the corresponding per minute profit would be about $41,400.

Wal-Mart's income statement for fiscal 2008 reports a 5.8% operating margin, so that figure appears to be an accurate one.
 
Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

The 76 days between January 1 to March 17 represent 20.8% of one year. If we take 20.8% of Wal-Mart's sales for fiscal 2008 ($374,526,000,000), that works out to a total of $77,901,408,000 for a 76-day period. (We acknowledge that this is only an approximation, since sales are not evenly distributed throughout the year.)

Target stores reported sales of $63,367,000,000 for fiscal 2008, so it's fair to say that Wal-Mart does indeed sell more (in dollar terms) between New Year's Day and St. Patrick's Day than Target sells all year.
 
Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

Using Yahoo! Finance, we obtained the following yearly sales figures for fiscal 2008 for the listed retail chains:

In the aggregate, these five companies accounted for $334,137,020,000 in yearly sales. If sales is the metric used to determine "bigness," then Wal-Mart, with over $374,000,000,000 in yearly sales, is indeed "bigger" than these five large retailers combined.
 

Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.

According to Wal-Mart's corporate fact sheet, the company employs 2 million associates worldwide, including 1.4 million in the United States. This makes Wal-Mart the largest private (i.e., non-government) employer in the U.S. (and, according to Wal-Mart, it is the largest employer in Mexico and one of the largest in Canada as well).
 

Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

This statement is somewhat ambiguous, since it doesn't indicate what metric is being used for "bigness": Largest number of outlets? Greatest number of employees? Gross revenues? Net profits?

Fortune magazine, which ranks the world's largest corporations in its Global 500 list based on gross revenues, does indeed place Wal-Mart at #1 in that regard, with the next three contenders all being oil companies: Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP.

Forbes magazine, which ranks companies in its Global 2000 list according to four metrics (sales, profits, assets and market value), places Wal-Mart at #16.
 

Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

In 1988 Wal-Mart developed its supercenter "one-stop family shopping" concept, which combined a full grocery and general merchandise under one roof. In the two decades since then, Wal-Mart has opened over 2,600 supercenters and has grown to become one of the nation's leading grocers. It's difficult to validate the statement made above with hard numbers since (as far as we can tell) Wal-Mart does not break down its sales figures by category, but it seems likely that Wal-Mart supercenters generate more food sales than the Kroger and Safeway grocery chains combined.
 

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

According to Wal-Mart, as of 30 November 2008 it was operating 894 discount stores, 2,610 supercenters, 146 neighborhood markets, 599 Sam's Clubs, and 14 marketside stores in the United States, for a grand total of 4,253 retail outlets.

According to Yahoo Finance!, as of 31 January 2004 Wal-Mart was operating 1,478 discount stores, 1,471 supercenters, 538 Sam's Clubs and 64 neighborhood markets in the United States, for a grand total of 3,551 retail outlets.
 

This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing transactions will occur at a Wal-Mart store.

We haven't yet located a reliable source for statistics on the number of purchasing transactions that take place at Wal-Mart stores. (It also isn't clear what "transaction" refers to in this context. Number of customers who buy at least one item? Total number of items purchased by all customers?)
 

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

The statistic that anywhere from 90% to 94% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart is a frequently cited item, but we don't know the origin of that stat or how it was determined (and therefore how accurate it might be). The 2006 book The Wal-Mart Effect cites the following statistics about the proximity of U.S. consumers to Wal-Mart stores:

• 53 percent of the U.S. population lives within five miles of a Wal-Mart
• 90 percent of the U.S. population lives within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart
• 97 percent of the U.S. population lives within twenty-five miles of a Wal-Mart

I THINK WE NEED TO HIRE THE WAL-MART MANAGERS TO RUN OUR GOVERNMENT FOR A YEAR OR SO AND GET IT BACK ON TRACK!

This should be read and understood by all Americans, Progressive Democrats and Republicans.

TO PRESIDENT OBAMA and all 535 voting members of the legislature.

It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt and incompetent or ineffective as well many are communist and have no desire to see America prosper as a free capitalist society.

1. The U.S. Postal Service established in 1775. You have had 237 years to get it right and it is broke.
2. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 77 years to get it right and it is broke. Much of the money was robed from these accounts and wasted on giveaway programs.
3. Fannie Mae was established in1938 you have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
4. War on poverty started in 1964. You have had 48 years to get it right: $1 Trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to the so called “The Poor” and they want more.
5. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 47 years to get it right and they are broke. You have failed to stop the billions of fraud in these systems.
6. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 42 years to get it right and it is broke.
7. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of 24 Billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 35 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
8. You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
9.  And you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government –run health care system??

 We are “broke” & can’t help our own seniors, Veterans, American Orphans, and Homeless etc.??

But we can allow millions of illegal’s stay in our country living off our tax dollars for democrat political reasons?? The Obama administration is purposing we give millions of our tax dollars to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to “help” the children. Do you really think this money is going to the children that need it? Meanwhile, Mexico is charging us for allowing them to pass through Mexico to get to the US border, paid for by the drug cartels. They are keeping the border guards busy changing diapers while the drug lords funnel tons of drugs into the US to turn our children into zombies.

 In the recent past we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, Japan Turkey... and Pakistan the previous home of Bin Laden. Literally Billions of our tax dollars!! Not counting the millions we give in aid to our Muslim Brother Hood enemies that hate us.

 In GITMO, the 147 Muslim terrorist have one doctor for every prisoner. A state of –the art hospital system are provided Korans and prayer rugs, food approved by the Koran, exercise and additional perks. While our veterans die while waiting to see a doctor while the directors get bonuses.

 Congress wants to freeze Social Security payments?

You do know that Congress voted themselves a pay raise for 2013?

I believe our government is run by idiots and is totally out of control!

The summary below of Barack and Michelle Obama's 6 year reign in the White House is by far the best I've ever read as it squarely hits the nail on the head.  And it took a black reporter writing it to make it as effective as it is. A white man's account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obama's is penned by a well known journalist of color?

BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA EVER!

(Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles ..)

The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obama's. Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama's? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture." 

 The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state. 

 I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America . They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous. 

 I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President, and a love of our country and her citizens, from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagan's made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. 

 His arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs? 

 Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama's have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility. 

 I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America . I view that statement and that Mind set as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.

 Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do that. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide." No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. 

 And what the two of them have shared has been proven to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. 

 He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel. 

 His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare. 

 I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority. 

 Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.

 I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color. 

 As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. 

 He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequaled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.

 Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America 's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed. 

LENGTHY BUT READ AND HEED.  WOW.  THIS SAYS IT ALL.

  Please take a moment to digest this provocative article by a Rabbi from Teaneck, N.J. It is far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard.

 Rabbi Steven Pruzansky is the spiritual leader of Congregation

Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey.

 The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility.

 And fewer people voted.

 But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.

 Romney lost because he didn’t get enough votes to win. That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate.

 The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.

  Every businessman knows this; that is why the “loss leader” or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama’s America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who – courtesy of Obama – receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both dis-incentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.

 The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which “47% of the people” start off against him because

they pay no taxes and just receive money – “free stuff” – from the government.

 Almost half of the population has no skin in the game – they don’t care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children and from the Chinese.

 They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else’s expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.

 It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.

 That engenders the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is ignorant and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters – the clear majority – are unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism.

 That is the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich.

 During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: “Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!” Stevenson called back: “That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!”

 Truer words were never spoken.

 Obama could get away with saying that “Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules” – without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the “rich should pay their fair share” – without ever defining what a “fair share” is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to “fend for themselves” – without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending.

 Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws.

 He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions – in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone.

 Obama also knows that the electorate has changed – that whites will soon be a minority in America (they’re already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America. Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.

 Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his “negative ads” were simple facts, never personal abuse – facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil’s bargain of making unsustainable promises.

 It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan – people of substance, depth and ideas – to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class warfare – never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups.

 If an Obama could not be defeated – with his record and his vision of America, in which free stuff seduces voters – it is hard to envision any change in the future.

 The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy – those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe – is paved.

 For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel. They voted to secure Obama’s future at America’s expense and at Israel’s expense – in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin.

 A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. The US will preach the importance of negotiations up until

the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon – and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality.

 But this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the

last five years. This election only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come.

 The “Occupy” riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead – years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution. If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back.

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 Then this next came a few minutes later! ! !

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 If you are part of the 47% don’t read or forward.

 Something's wrong here !!!

 This is exactly why Mitt Romney said that 40 something % of the people are too dependent on the government. They have learned to work the system.

 A Ford Dealer's Report - From Tom Selkis' (Latham Ford) Facebook - True story yesterday at the dealership.

 "I'll try to make this as short and to the point as I can. One of my salesmen here had a woman in his office yesterday wanting to lease a brand new Focus.

 As he was reviewing her credit application with her he noticed she was on social security disability.

 He said to her you don't look like you're disabled and unable to work.

 She said, well I'm really not. I could work if I wanted to, but I make more now than I did when I was working and got hurt (non-disabling injury).

She said the gov't sends her $1500.00 a month in 1 check. And she gets $700.00 a month on an EBT card (food stamps), and $800.00 a month for rent..

 Oh yeah, and 250 minutes free on her phone. That is just south of $3500.00 a month.

 When she was working, she was taking home about $330.00 per week.

 Do the math and then ask yourself why the hell should she go back to work.

 If you multiply that by millions of people, you start to realize the scope of the problem we face as a country.

 Once the socialists have 51% of the population in that same scenario, we are finished.

 The question is when do we cross that threshold if we haven't already, and there are not enough people working to pay enough taxes to support the non-working people? Riots?? Be prepared to protect your homes.

 She didn't lease the Focus here because the dealer down the road beat our deal by $10.00/month.

 Glad to know she is so frugal with her hard earned money."

A Coil of Rage:

 The character of any man is defined by how he treats his mother as the years pass ... need I say more about this person below other than there is no character, no integrity, but there is a ton of attitude and arrogance that defines his shallow past and hollow future ... I rest my case.

 I bought and read Obama's book, Audacity of Hope.  It was difficult to read considering his attitude toward us and everything American. 

 Let me quote a phrase he uses to describe his attitude toward whites.  He "harbors A COIL OF RAGE".

His words not mine.  This is the current US president. 

 HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT.  He does not represent me nor the real America.  Is anyone out there awake?

 Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by him: Don't buy them , just get them from the library.

 QUOTES:

 From: Dreams From My Father

  "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

 From: Dreams From My Father

  "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

 From: Dreams From My Father

  "There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white."

 From: Dreams From My Father 

  "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." 

 From: Dreams From My Father 

  "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

 And FINALLY ... and most scary:

 From: Audacity of Hope

 "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." 

 (Do Benghazi and the recent “prisoner swap” ring a bell?!?)

  Our GREAT nation is being run by someone with this mentality?  Keep your eye on him and don't blink.

 I don't care whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, a conservative or a liberal, be aware of the attitude, mindset, and character of this sitting President.

Say What…?????

 Could someone please tell me what she just said ?

 "My accomplishments as Secretary of State? Well, I'm glad you asked! My proudest accomplishment in which I take the most pride, mostly because of the opposition it faced early on, you know. the remnants of prior situations and mindsets that were too narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger picture and we didn't do that and I'm proud of that. Very proud. I would say that's a major accomplishment."

- Hillary Clinton 11 March 2014