INSTEAD OF GOVERNMENT TAKING OVER BUSINESS...

This may boggle your mind . . HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day. Worldwide Sales for FY ended 2008 were $347.5 Billion!
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day
(March 17th) more 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. Figures!
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World ..
7. Wal-Mart now sell 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 SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences 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. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street. Better yet . . . let them run the Government!