Re: Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

jps wrote:
> 
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> 
> > Oh, oh, now you've done it. You've provided sources to back up your
> > facts. Be prepared to be labeled a heartless right wing fanatic, or
> > Harry's favorite, "Konservatrash".
> >
> > Dave
> 
> This is one of those who funded the "research" provided by the
> Employment Policy Foundation.
> 
> John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
> The New York-based John M. Olin Foundation, which grew out of a family
> manufacturing business (chemical and munitions), funds right-wing think
> tanks like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation,
> the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Hoover
> Institute of War, Revolution and Peace. It also gives large sums of
> money to promote conservative programs in the country's most prestigious
> colleges and universities. After Michael Joyce left to take charge of
> the Bradley Foundation, William Simon  continued as president at Olin...
> (Editor's note: William Simon passed away in 2000).
> 
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> 
> ...Financed by the Olin chemical and munitions fortune. Assets estimated
> at about $90 million. Gives about $3 million a year to conservative
> advocacy groups. Supported right-wing causes for many years, but became
> more focused in its grantmaking after William Simon took over as
> president in 1977. Simon was followed by Michael Joyce, who left Olin in
> 1985 to lead the Bradley Foundation. Simon is now Olin's president
> again.


Which means what exactly? Are the numbers wrong? Or is it that you just
can't accept anything that isn't from the pages of the New York Times?

Dave