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Old 01-01-2013, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Exactly my point! And Walmart, by its employment practices, is the leading cause for this!
So you are in favor of communism then. Why not just come out and say it ?
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:34 PM
 
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So you are in favor of communism then. Why not just come out and say it ?
It's not communism when you share willingly.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Why don't you enlighten us.


What is $15 billion in profit divided by 2 million employees?
Even if I didn't learn to do math the old fashioned way, the computer has a calculator......doesn't yours?
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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It's not communism when you share willingly.
It's capitalism vs communism here.

You want a livable wage changing each year ?
You have 2 choices..get Congress to make a high min wage that changes each year or have government nationalize business and become the employer.

People will pay what others are willing to take and there's no lack of takers these days for min wage jobs.
McDonald's had over 1 million applications for that summer where they hired 50,000 workers.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:39 PM
 
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It's capitalism vs communism here.

You want a livable wage changing each year ?
You have 2 choices..get Congress to make a high min wage that changes each year or have government nationalize business and become the employer.

People will pay what others are willing to take and there's no lack of takers these days for min wage jobs.
McDonald's had over 1 million applications for that summer where they hired 50,000 workers.
Except 50,000 people probably filed more than one application.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Go ask the Wallymart workers. This is THEIR CLAIM. They consider themselves middle class workers.
I LOL'd at that one.
Perhaps they are right! With the low wages and increasing disparity of pay, perhaps the new middle class in America can no longer survive on these wages.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Except 50,000 people probably filed more than one application.
You can't. McDonald's in online application, like so many are today. You apply once and pick the various locations.

Times have changed my friend. Gone are the paper applications to each and every store.
One central location now.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Prepperland
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So people who made $1 / day in 1914 are worse off than the people who make $7.25/hour today?
And it's the fault of business?

[head smack]
Business is not the one DEBASING the money token supply.
Business is not the one increasing overhead, red tape and hidden costs.
Business is not at fault.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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So you are in favor of communism then. Why not just come out and say it ?
No, and that is why I am against Walmart's practices. Their employment practices cannot sustain our country which will eventually lead to a new system of government. For every action, there is a reaction.
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Old 01-01-2013, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Perhaps they are right! With the low wages and increasing disparity of pay, perhaps the new middle class in America can no longer survive on these wages.
Well that can easily happen when you have a middle class mindset but a poverty level salary.
Something's gotta give.

These folks aren't even at blue collar working status but they think they are middle class.
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