Walmart is beneficial to the US

Thank you deatheater for responding. I would like to start off by refuting some of my opponents points. "I would like to thank the nickjack and all voters for this debate. Walmart does not depend on the U.S. The U.S depends on Walmart. Walmart is good for the U.S because it has cheap prices which is good for the U.S economy. That is why the U.S economy needs it. It lets poor people buy from Walmart creating better bussiness for Walmart and better economy for the U.S." The opponent stated that Wal-Mart is beneficial because of lower prices for the poor. Wal-Mart, in fact, has almost the same prices as other stores such as Target but Wal-Mart does not give its workers health care benefits. In fact it even ENCOURAGES workers to seek government welfare benefits. [1] "Walmart offers jobs. Nothing is more inportant in this economy crisis than getting jobs and thats what Walmart does. iIn this ecomy crisis most people don't have any job at all. But walmart does. Walmart is offering you a job to keep you surviving. Do you want to die of hunger or hydration or not. If you don't vote for me, if you do vote for the opposing team." First of all, this argument doesn't make much sense. Wal-Mart is paying most of their workers around the minimum wage. Yes, it may offer a few hundred jobs for each store it creates but think about the hundreds of thousands of jobs that were transported to China for cheaper labor of manufactured goods. You said Wal-Mart is helping the economy. Sending these many jobs oversees is not helping the economy! Now I would like to state my arguments. 1. Wal-Mart is consistently having legal issues. Wal-Mart has a history of being sexist. Women have usually been paid lower or given the lower wage jobs [2]. Lawyers have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of 700,000 women working at 3,000 Wal-Mart stores. The US was founded on equality. Wal-Mart cannot be beneficial to the US if they are ignoring the very rights that the US was founded on. 2. Wal-Mart does not provide health care benefits to most Even on Wal-Mart's OWN website. It shows the benefits of having health care but it does not say how to get that health care. Only 53% of Wal-Mart workers receive health care from Wal-Mart's money. The rest of the workers receive health care. But who pays for it? The taxpayers! Wal-Mart earns $268 billion in sales but it costs the taxpayers over $1.4 billion that Wal-Mart could have easily paid for itself. 3. Wal-Mart sent jobs oversees Originally, Wal-Mart received most of its goods from US manufacturing companies. Currently, Wal-Mart buys $15 billion worth of goods from China. Wal-Mart cut thousands of jobs from the US to get cheaper labor and more profit. Their "Made in America" campaign used to be true. Now it means nothing. It is a plain lie. Most of its goods are made in other countries. How is this made in America? In conclusion, Wal-Mart is not beneficial to the US. It is the exact opposite. By sending jobs overseas it hurts the economy. By encouraging workers to seek government benefits, it is costing American taxpayers much more than they should be paying. By being sexist to women workers, Wal-Mart is destroying the values that the America was built on. Wal-Mart cannot be beneficial to the US. Resources: http://www.commondreams.org... http://www.commonplacebook.com... http://walmartwatch.com...