The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94165   Message #1838749
Posted By: Old Guy
19-Sep-06 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Has Walmart been defeated?
Subject: RE: BS: Has Walmart been defeated?
I assume that the question you are asking now is "What is wrong with Walmart"

My answer is nothing is wrong with Walmart in my opinion.

Now you can commence your whining about my answer.

Another question that I have been commanded to answer I assume is

"why did Walmart not take advantage of the easy way out of the problem--the way you yourself pointed out--by simply paying its employees more than the Maryland median income?"

This question has three parts. It is a Plurium Interrogationum. a logical fallacy. It is committed when someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved

Part #1 is an assertion that Walmart could have taken an easy way out which may be false or it may be true. I have not made that assertion so I have no obligation state anything about it.

#2 is a false assertion that I pointed out something when in fact I quoted from other sources "Northrop Grumman Corp., lobbied for and won exclusion for companies with employees earning more than the Maryland median household income." as proof that they were not subject to the legislation. So my answer to that part of the question is I did not point out anything I merely offered it as a evidence.

#3 is a suggestion that Walmart should have or could have, I am not certain which, paid the median income to avoid something. The something I assume is the Walmart bill that is targeted at Walmart.

So there is no one answer to this compound question.

No doubt it brings a smug sense of satisfaction and a badly needed ego boost to the person that constructed this question because they believe that I cannot answer it and they have "Got" me.

Now we need to state the median income in Maryland. According to the information supplied, it is $64,300.

Assuming Walmart must be run by intelligent business people, it would be economically inviable to pay the employees $64,300.

So that is your answer that you can start crying about.

Now where are the answers to the simple, one part questions that I have asked?

I haven't gotten them because they are being dodged while I am accused of dodging questions. Hypocracy in other words.