Posted on 08/07/2015 9:41:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeppers, it's all the fault of Walmart and not the government; hurrah for bigger government !!!
What we have now is rigged to subsidize the corporate monsters at the sacrifice of us little folks.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
We got some people here parroting that union sh!#. I have friends who have been with Wal-Mart for years and they would not work anywhere else. Wal-Mart is in the median of starting wages. Fact is if you are not satisfied with you circumstance go somewhere else. If you dropped out of school and have no marketable skills that’s on you not on Wal-mart. You get paid for what you know how to do that every other guy walking down the road doesn’t. Every time I query a Wal-mart worker most of the time they tell me they like to work there!!!
The Waltons are worth more than almost all nations on the planet. I hope this is hyperbole. Maybe worth more than Luxembourg but Denmark surpasses the 150 billion net worth of the Walton's in 2014.
However, it is the first part of the Leftist attack, class warfare. Demonize the bourgeoisie!
That's more than they need
Obama has said the exact same thing.
and it's on the back of employee wages
Classic Marxism. The capitalists feed off of the sweat of the proletariat. Or as Obama put it, "you didn't build that." Sam Walton had nothing to do with risking his own funds and livelihood in buying the original bankrupt stores that would become WalMart. And certainly highly trained, educated, and experienced personnel should never be paid more than a high school dropout. That's unfair to the masses!
the workers aren't making enough to survive
From Marx to the Occupy movement to here. Amazing how some sewage will travel. One, back in that rest or the world the Waltons have more money than, 7 to 9 dollars an hour would be luxurious. Two, here in this county, you can live off of WalMart wages. You won't have a brand new car, a big house,the latest smartphone, etc. but you can survive just fine. Not easy, but it's done. That's why some people work their way up for something better but others are content with our poor being another nation's middle class.
The rest of your post veers from the Know Nothing party to anti-corporatism. But still - deficit spending made our debt impossible, not a trade deficit, which inherently is an arbitrary estimate. Those cheap foreign goods come from unions driving up the cost of labor to an unsustainable level with the early pushes for a "living wage." So now those jobs have moved to countries that are thrilled to live on those wages.
In short, you provided a clear example of how pervasive Leftism has become, whether you call it Progressive movement, Communism, Marxism, or the Living Wage movement.
Great post.
My family were the first settlers of Benton County. My 3d Grandfather was the first Clerk of Court. When one of my grand uncles died, my father and I went to a cafe on the square of Bentonville where he introduced me to Sam Walton who was in for his usual breakfast.
When I was a student of the University of Arkansas, Bentonville was a typical drying up Southern town that time had bypassed. My family had departed for greener pastures and my father and I had become professional Army Officers. Sam Walton singularly transformed Northwest Arkansas and our father and I were ignorant enough to the changes so that we missed the boat.
Those who believed in Sam Walton and did what he advised them to do are wealthy beyond our understanding. But, our stupid government and politicians are trying to craft a fantasy world so that they can capture future voters. Politicians had nothing to do with Sam Walton’s success, and any scheme that they will advance will only benefit them, no one else.
A VERY dangerous phrase to utter in a capitalist economy.....who gets to determine that....socialism seeks to take all that excess money from those evil business people and GIVE it to others so that they may be more "equal"
That has never worked, nor will it ever. Those who don't like Wal-mart's way of doing things are perfectly able to start their own business and pay their employees as large a salary as they see fit.
I don't see how my view is anti-capitalist. Between government regulation and the inability of people to make a self-sustaining wage, the population becomes wage slaves. That's fascism, not capitalism....government and large corporations working together to dominate the population.
In short, you provided a clear example of how pervasive Leftism has become, whether you call it Progressive movement, Communism, Marxism, or the Living Wage movement.
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Your entire posting was excellent!
Unions like to use code words like “living wage” and “working families”.
Thank you
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