Reply #145: Are you saying the Waltons have NO influence on Wal-mart's policies?

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Throughout the thread, you maintain the position that although they own significant stock and one of Sam's kids is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, they have zero control over the actual workings of the Wal-mart business and hold these positions as ceremonial figureheads. Now this may be the case; you certainly allege to have a better claim to first-hand knowledge of the "inner workings" than damn-near anyone else I've seen at DU or any other message board.

However.

I cannot bring myself to imagine that if a Walton family member decided to speak out publicly against the vicious employment, franchising, and purchasing policies of Wal-mart that they would be ignored. The various unions and Wal-mart boycott groups could have no greater ally than an heir to the Walton fortune, were he or she to openly deplore Wal-mart's labor, locating, and manufacturing policies.

Does the Walton family, or at least those of them you know, have ANY conscious remorse or concern for the effects the agressive business practices of their father's enterprise has on workers and small businesses? If not, why not? If so, why don't they DO something about it?