Here's how it went. Mind you, I was 20 years old at the time and was mentally and professionally prepared to be there. Wal-Mart at the time was very much a family company with very accessible and responsive executives, even if they were a little arrogant and condescending at times. I actually felt I had bombed in my meeting with the EVP and was leaving the executive offices when Sam Walton spotted me, and as I had met him on a couple of occasions he recognized me and asked how I was and what brought me there.
Sam was an amazing man. If he met you once, he knew your name, where you lived, family relationships, etc. And if you were his employee, as I was, Sam knew and expected you to know current sales and profit data for your store and district, sales increase percentages, goals and the like. He was very proactive, forward-thinking and involved and encouraged that of his people. I told him of my meeting with his Executive Vice President and also that I felt I hadn't done as well selling my ideas as I had wanted. Sam smiled, put his hand on my shoulder and said, something like “Let’s try it again then,” but his exact words escape me today. Sam then led me to a room that was near his office. It wasn’t a big room, just a picnic-sized folding table and about a dozen chairs as I recall and maybe a copier and a couple file cabinets. Sam told me to take a seat, which I did. Sam then left, heading toward his office, and into the room came two people I did not know but who had been with Sam when he greeted me and had followed us into this room.
A dark haired man and a blonde woman, they were both in their mid-30s I guessed, and neither said anything to me at all. They each had folders or attaché cases with them, and the woman had a book similar in appearance to trade and commerce law books I have seen since. Very soon the woman spoke up, asking me who I was and what I was doing there. They had both been with Sam when he escorted me into the room, so I understood her to mean why was I at the General Office. Not knowing myself who these two people were, I felt it couldn't hurt, so I began giving them the presentation that I had prepared and given for the EVP just ten to fifteen minutes earlier. My idea was a simple one.
Wal-Mart had a "Buy American" advertising campaign at that time, which was really more a public relations gimmick than any real commitment to American manufacturing, and I was concerned that even that could erode. I wanted to establish an American-made department within the new Supercenter design. I called it "American Showcase." Located between the grocery section and the general merchandise sections of the store plan, the “American Showcase” was meant to feature those items which were created, retained or otherwise supported through Wal-Mart’s Buy American purchasing policy and as an anchor of sorts to cement the company’s commitment to American-made goods and livable wages in the floor plans of the stores.
Midway through my presentation, upon understanding the purpose of my ideas, the woman actually rose to her feet, leaned over the table and into my face said, "Who are you to tell ME how to spend MY money? Why should I lose money supporting your high-minded ideas?" Also the woman actually told me to “grow up”! I was floored. I had never encountered anyone of such a queenly self-righteousness in my life to that point, or since.
Her tone was so full of contempt for ideals supporting livable wages or democratic traditions that I was literally stunned by her. I resisted and argued her points, but she was ice and utterly uninterested in anything else that I could say. I stumbled out of the General Office that day totally bewildered, never having seen Sam again. About a month later I picked up the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and learned who that woman was. Right there on the front page was her smiling picture; she was the Governor’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The man with her that day I later identified as Sam Walton’s oldest son Rob Walton, the current Chairman of the Wal-Mart Board and sixth richest man in the world.
I told them that day that to ply free people’s money, earned in a free market into exploiting communism's supposed collapse was dangerous to the future and in fact called it treason at that time. This is my story. I spent the next 18 years trying to influence Wal-Mart from within only to conclude two years ago that I had to try something else.
I am telling others with the expectation and hope that they will now do something else, too, even if it is only to tell someone what they have learned or to send them this article. Anything we can do individually can collectively overwhelm the opposition. They are few, but we are many. This has always been such a simple debate. Should the richest among us be allowed to profiteer and exploit the poorest or undermine the middle?
Wal-Mart has paved the road that the rest must follow on in order to compete, and Hillary Clinton was a key inside player enabling the transfer of the wealth of the American middle class and inheritance of a generation of Americans to the coffers of the People’s Liberation Army of Communist China. And at a time when Communism had been pronounced as dead on the world stage. Communism murdered over 150 million people in the last century, and thanks to Wal-Mart and Hillary and Bill Clinton, the Communist armies opposing liberty in the world are better equipped to kill than ever! It may not be an overstatement to say that Wal-Mart poses a national security threat and risk to liberty everywhere.
If Hillary is elected to the Presidency then Wal-Mart will sell to a Chinese front such as Cosco China, Inc., a front company for the People’s Liberation Army. The greatest heist in the history of man will have been achieved, and no one will pay any penalty. The T-bills and debt owned by China will be converted into ownership of the most successful business allowed to operate in most every town throughout this country. All those Wal-Mart stores and free people will have financed their own children’s slavery. This disgrace must not be allowed to occur. This plan could be the operating gameplan of the Walton trust, as only their private interests matter, and everyone in the United States needs to be aware of it now. Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, S. Robson Walton, Jim Walton, David Glass, Lee Scott and others, if they allow such a move, will be traitors to this nation and would deserve the harshest penalties which can be applied. Wal-Mart must not be allowed to finance communism.
David M. Klotz had a twenty-year career with Wal-Mart where he began working in 1986. In June he expects to release the new book that he did not want to write, Slave Lords: How Hillary & Wal-Mart Saved Communism! This book is a first-hand account of those events which led to Wal-Mart becoming the world’s largest corporation and the Clinton dynasty becoming the most powerful and dangerous political force in American history.
