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You do realize that these are the same people that many people are ranting about who just want "free stuff" from the government don't you? Many people take jobs like Walmart because there are no other choices.
Because THEY have no other choice, because they don't have the skills to get a better paying job.
No I do realize this, but the point remains is that they still do not pay their employee's a living wage. This particular event just happened at that Walmart which does not say that other Walmart employees are rolling in the bucks
So what exactly is a "living wage"? If I want to "live" by owning a 6000 sf house, drive a luxury vehicle or three, take a couple of pricey vacations every year, wear designer clothes, eat in fancy restaurants - should my employer pay me enough to live that way?
No business exists to provide a certain lifestyle to anyone. They exist to sell a product or service, for a fee. If they become successful, they will need more employees, as a byproduct of that success. Period.
Again, there you go. Always making assumptions about people who don't make much money yet still are working...the working poor. Always assuming it's the EMPLOYEE'S fault. Always. You prove my point.
Conservatives.
Most everybody is responsible for themselves. Maybe that's why we keep saying it.
And I believe the word is 'responsibility not 'fault'.
The use of 'fault' being an emotional thing...too often the basis of the 'bleeding-heart" contingent.
Who is "we?" You aren't "subsidizing" anybody at Walmart, and neither is anybody else. You are reall messed up in the head.
More bull crap! The taxpayers are not picking up any "unpaid tab."
You are totally clueless and uniformed.
Walmart's main competition would be Target. I can tell you they are roughly the same. My wife worked at Target many years ago as a manager. I think I know what I'm talking about here.
My wife was in retailing her entire life. When we were married, she was a sales person (a real sales person, not just a floor worker). She worked her way up to Store Manager (that is General Manager) of one store in a large Southern CA retail chain on the order of Dillard's. For those of you familiar with Southern CA, it was Buffum's. She managed the Fashion Valley store, then the Grossmont Center store, then after a short time with Target, she managed the Lomas Santa Fe Buffum's, a new store near Rancho Santa Fe, CA.
So, I know what I'm talking about.
If the majority of Walmart's employees are on welfare programs, then we, the tax payers, are subsidizing their workers while the heads of Walmart cash in.
The America-haters just love to distort facts to fit their arguments against the country, and our people. That Wal-Mart store director/manager should be congratulated, not criticized.
Quote:
"This store has been doing this for several years and is for associates that
have faced an extreme hardship recently," spokesman Kory Lundberg told
us.
Lundberg says an example of this would be a recent layoff in the family
or some other financial hardship.
More employers/people should be helping one another ... not attacking one another.
There were exactly 0 mass famines in the US before the welfare state. Apparently private charities managed the Spanish Flu epidemic, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Aye yi yi! First, no one's talking about famines, we're talking about managing hunger. Congratulations on a marvelous straw man.
Next, you leap to major disasters and say that "apparently" private charities managed just fine, entirely without any proof.
Then you pretend that the New Deal to manage the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era never existed.
Finally, you ignore the historical facts of the Spanish flu pandemic in which doctors and scientists, both public and private, not to mention the Navy and other government agencies, managed the crisis.
You seriously want to stand by your ridiculous post?
If the majority of Walmart's employees are on welfare programs, then we, the tax payers, are subsidizing their workers while the heads of Walmart cash in.
As taxpayers, then we need to STOP shopping at Walmart and other stores that do not pay very well. We all know that Costco and even Sams pays better wages then Walmart....
I do not shop at Walmart/target, I rarely go to a fast food restaurant, I grocery shop in specialty grocery stores. I grow most of my vegetables and herbs - what I don't grow, I get at the farmer's market. I buy beef and chicken directly from a ranch. I shop for clothes and shoes at local (not chain stores). There are other options. Problem is, most people want it for as cheap as they can get it.....and will not stop shopping at Walmart and the likes, then turn around and complain about them.
As taxpayers, then we need to STOP shopping at Walmart and other stores that do not pay very well. We all know that Costco and even Sams pays better wages then Walmart....
I do not shop at Walmart/target, I rarely go to a fast food restaurant, I grocery shop in specialty grocery stores. I grow most of my vegetables and herbs - what I don't grow, I get at the farmer's market. I buy beef and chicken directly from a ranch. I shop for clothes and shoes at local (not chain stores). There are other options. Problem is, most people want it for as cheap as they can get it.....and will not stop shopping at Walmart and the likes, then turn around and complain about them.
That is actually really good of you to do. I agree, I wish more American consumers would shop with more of a conscience when it comes to things like that because that is the easiest way to force companies to either evolve of disappear.
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