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All this episode shows is the utter contempt liberals in particular white liberals have for poor people. It's ideology or nothing. Wal-Mart's workers are on public assistance they screech. Ok and considering they took the job what other options do they have? I guess liberals prefer they stay at home. Whole Foods pays its workers the same and bans Spanish yet nary a peep from liberals.Why because liberals patron Whole Foods. How many people on food stamps shop at Wal-Mart compared to Whole Foods?
The areas in Dc where Wal-Mart was going to open were in poor Black areas where grocery stores and business in general are nearly non-existent. One center where the store would be located has been without an anchor for 23 years but hey Wal-Mart's bad! So no jobs for the poor Blacks in the neighborhood.
So let me get this straight, you hate welfare, but you're ok with Walmart getting welfare from the government? You can bet that 99.9%-100% of the potential Walmart workers in DC would still be on public assistance just like the many many many Walmart workers across the country. Corporate welfare at its finest
Hate to see all those inner-city Blacks find a job and buy their groceries cheaper.
This sets a very dangerous trend. If we intend on going down the Chinese path on the race to the bottom, we will lose. We cannot compete with Chinese and southeast Asian slave labor. There are a hell of a lot of countries in the world to go around for subsistence wages, we cannot afford that.
So let me get this straight, you hate welfare, but you're ok with Walmart getting welfare from the government? You can bet that 99.9%-100% of the potential Walmart workers in DC would still be on public assistance just like the many many many Walmart workers across the country. Corporate welfare at its finest
Wal-Mart provides job I believe work is good for the character. I believe folks learn valuable skills that can help them improve their lives as opposed to loitering on the corners. It's clear to me White liberals could care less about poor Black people and I hope more begin to realize that. There was a pro-Wal-Mart protest in Dc and it was mostly Blacks. We are talking about areas devoid of capital investment for decades and for people to be so caught up on ideology to put these projects at risk is just cruel.
Wal-Mart pays it's workers in suburban DC location $12 there was every indication they would pay around that in DC. This was a payoff to unions don't delude yourself into thinking this was about the poor.
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This sets a very dangerous trend. If we intend on going down the Chinese path on the race to the bottom, we will lose. We cannot compete with Chinese and southeast Asian slave labor. There are a hell of a lot of countries in the world to go around for subsistence wages, we cannot afford that.
This. It's a bit of a mystery to me why so many in this country think we need to race to the bottom - non-livable pay, no benefits, poor working conditions, as if that will somehow make everything magically "better." It's absolutely a race we can't win, and it's one we shouldn't be interested in playing. Heck, even those countries currently at the bottom are trying to lift themselves up, not fighting to see who can make their citizenry even worse off.
This. It's a bit of a mystery to me why so many in this country think we need to race to the bottom - non-livable pay, no benefits, poor working conditions, as if that will somehow make everything magically "better." It's absolutely a race we can't win, and it's one we shouldn't be interested in playing. Heck, even those countries currently at the bottom are trying to lift themselves up, not fighting to see who can make their citizenry even worse off.
How the **** can we compete like that, seriously? That is the million dollar question. Even Chinese workers are slowly starting to become too expensive now and are going to India. After India, hell, there's an entire continent of people that live on less money than the Bangladeshis or Vietnamese or Laotians. There's around 100 countries in the world that businesses can relocate to that pay their workers one tenth of an American worker. I ask you again, how can we compete with that many countries? The people that are pushing this low wage model on here, I've noticed something about them. It's all about me me me me, case in point:
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Then, watch your prices go up at Walmart! Up until now, I have saved thousands of dollars buying from them. I love Walmart.
Wal-mart ain't going nowhere. This is an idle threat to get people all upset. I personally don't like the way Wal-mart conducts business. I worked there as a teen and wasn't really privy to the world job wise. My younger cousin worked there briefly...they hired her as a pt employee but then scheduled her for 35 hours almost every week under the guise of voluntary overtime. So when she went back to the assistance program (not welfare; it's a private program run by some local organization) she's on for school she got disqualified because she was working full-time. So she went to HR and asked if they would write something saying she was a pt employee and they refused.
Somehow, I think D.C. will survive, even thrive, in its absence.
Because DC is just doing so well now!
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