I’ve put you in the same box as all the other Leftists, and quite frankly, you’re indistinguishable from them.
If you don’t want to be called a Leftist, don’t talk like one.
For starters, don’t attack employers who employ marginal people, giving the poor a paycheck that many others won’t.
And learn to make divisive statements.
I worked at Wal- Mart. Let’s not go overboard on how many “marginal” people work there. You have to pass a drug test to work there.
A 2005 class action suit filed in Missouri accused Wal-Mart of forcing between 160,000 and 200,000 employees to work off the clock. The suit also said the employees were were denied overtime pay, and were not allowed to take rest and lunch breaks.
In 2000, Wal-Mart paid $50 billion to settle a suit of 69,000 current and former employees in Colorado who had been forced to work off-the-clock. Similar suits were filed in Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Minnesota.
When I worked at Wal-Mart, they were constantly on us about not getting even one minute of overtime. A friend of mine who had several years at the store gave blood regularly for the extra $30 and constantly talked about how he “needed more money” and “couldn’t make ends meet”. I just don’t think it’s a good place to work.
I’m Catholic and so faith, not ideology, informs my opinions. And so I’m conservative on social issues and liberal on economic issues, thought I believe I’m consistent in believing the child in the womb, the poor, and the worker need to be defended. Conservative ideology asks too much if it demands that one not call Wal-Mart to task for exploiting near slave labor overseas and at times underpaid, mistreated U. S. labor.
I get the idea that you can’t criticize anything Wal-Mart does because it’s a sin against conservative ideology. That’s the way I used to be but I got tired of it and abandoned ideology for the faith perspective. If you said to so many people who know me and know my take on the issues that I’m a “Leftist” they would laugh at you because they think I’m “far right.”
I don’t understand your last statement about “divisive” statements unless you mean “decisive”.