Posted on 12/29/2014 4:17:19 AM PST by HomerBohn
Divelous sour grapes by one that does no real work for a living
Bashing Walmart is a sport enjoyed by the have nots be they Left wing or conservative
>>How much is stocking shelves worth in a free market economy?
In ten years, Wal-Mart will have robots stocking shelves and the currently overpaid shelf stockers will be out of work.
And the Leftist answer to all these ills and woes is...
Are you ready?
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING!!
The gubmint IS helping Walmart every time a EDB card is used. Would be really interesting to know how many Walmart “shoppers” use those cards versus those who pay with their own money.
And perhaps motivated to seek a better job or training for a better job?
Now THERE’S an interesting idea...
The entire propose of articles like this are to steal the wages of these hard working people by forcing the unionization of Walmart. It is, like normal full of lies, half truths and just enough truth to sneak into rational discussion.
It’s not a free market, so we’ll never know.
I know, lets bring in another 5 million South American coolies to the labor pool, that should fix the problem.
Eliminate welfare and medicaid and food stamps!!!
The left never, ever considers cutting the welfare payments that indirectly feed the corporations and destroy families. Even worse, we have the RINOs and Democrats working overtime to try and bring in even MORE skilled and unskilled labor. Result: fewer jobs, lower pay, and MORE welfare for Americans.
I’m not sure the author HAS a point at all: Somewhere in this socialist screed is a justification for his/her/its claim that Walmart is getting government charity - but I can’t find it.
Probably the “logic” that Wally World pays part-time and low wages, so they don’t pay a “living wage” with full-time union benefits (that also go t to the SEIU’s welfare and democrat bribery schemes) so the government has to “pay” the Walmart employees’ healthcare. Don’t know.
Did you see those robots at Amazon?
That 17 billion is GROSS profits, not net. Big difference.
Net profit is the other thing, which is likely $.07 or so on every dollar, maybe less.
Despite what Walmart employees get in federal assistance, Uncle Sam is still coming out way ahead. Case closed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/03/17/companies-paying-highest-income-taxes/1991313/
It's a shame the author of this article thinks that either a company or the federal government is supposed to "properly take care of their employees" instead of employees being people responsible for themselves.
Does he views employees to be property? (moooo)
I’d like to know how much the government takes from Walmart in the form of corporate taxes, vs how much the government pays Walmart employees for Medicare. How much profit is the government making for doing nothing?
If Walmart made a proportionate margin to be able to pay a proportionate wage/salary compared to Apple, this would not be an article about Walmart.
For most of my adult life I’ve believed that Americans should be the sole source of their retirement income as well as their medical care.
That would mean that I am totally against Social Security, Medicare, and the host of other ‘entitlement’ programs. They call these ‘entitlements’ , but we’re not entitled to anything except being left alone to blaze our own trails.
If we’d had control of all the money we’ve poured into Social Security (forget the employer’s share) we’d have several millions of dollars at retirement. Add to that the savings we’d have accumulated and we’d all be kings living the retirement years as though we were a Congressrat.
Amen!
One thing, out of many, that would be accomplished is the discouragement of the house-breakers who crawl across our borders like venomous snakes.
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