Posted on 06/30/2006 7:20:59 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Who give a flip? Plenty of American outfits can do it
And I'd gather it will sub-contract a good portion of the construction work out to Texans, anyway.
The Spanish birthrate is pathetic. They won't be bringing Spanish proles here to do the work. There's a Mexico connection here somehow. I predict some of the road will be built by Mexican crews with special work visas and Mexican subcontractors
Who is calling names today? Just wondering.
Pretty hard to get anything untoward by this guy. How anyone could create such an uproar over a road is stunning. Who knew a road could be so menacing to so many people.
Those plentiful outfits are batting .000 at the moment.
Bingo.
Wal-Mart makes gigantic profits while it's CEO, H. Scott Lee, demands that Georgia taxpayers pay for his employee's health care.
Yup, 3% of sales is what I call gigantic profits. There's gotta something in the Constitution requiring American businesses to provide full benefits for their employees. Must be the same section that forces all these people to work at Wal-Mart.
Why is it those who rail on American businesses are always the ones who know the least about business?
Socializing costs while privatizing profits. Those who hire illegal aliens get a leg up on the competition. They do this very day. Shove the expenses onto the taxpayers while keeping the profits for themselves
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180 New Jobs
The store will employ approximately 260 associates, which includes 180 jobs created by the relocation. More than 360 people applied for jobs at the new store. The average wage at Wal-Mart for full-time hourly associates in Georgia is $10.33 per hour.*[]
Wal-Mart benefits – available to full- and part-time associates – include healthcare insurance with no lifetime maximum. Wal-Mart offers a choice of as many as 18 health plans that cost as little as $11 a month in some areas. Both full and part-time Wal-Mart associates are eligible for health care benefits. Wal-Mart also offers a 401(k) plan and profit sharing contributions, whether an associate contributes or not, store discount cards, performance-based bonuses, discounted stock purchase program and life insurance. [emphasis added]
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*Average wage taken yearly (December 2005).
For God's sake, re-read what I wrote.
You think taxpayer's should pay for Wal-Mart employee's health care? Do you?
Did you have a chance to read that Law of the Sea Treaty thread I pinged you to?
Did you post this to chat or did the moderators move it?
Sorry, no. I have too much to read at the moment. And I cannot have a discussion about it until I read the text of it myself.
I understand what you wrote perfectly. Do you think government should force Wal-Mart to supply each employee with the level of benefits you deem necessary? Please tell me who is forcing all those people to work at Wal-Mart?
Sole proprietorships typically pay less than Wal-Mart and offer no benefits whatsoever. Should the taxpayers pay for their employee's health care too? Where does your interference in the market end? Socialism?
That's got to be about one of the best ideas I've come across all day. Let's start with NASCO. Lot's of people like it, and from what I've seen (here's the route, and here's the legislation) it looks like it's making it easier for us to be free, to defend America, and to feed our families. That's not news because roads do that.
If anyone's got a different take, let's check out exactly where in the route or the legislation it is that we got a problem.
Does somebody on FreeRepublic support the Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST)? I'd be surprised to see that.
And I think it was the moderators. I put it as an editorial and it's classified now as "conspiracy."
"I understand what you wrote perfectly."
Then one has to wonder why exactly you never answered the question.
"Do you think government should force Wal-Mart to supply each employee with the level of benefits you deem necessary?"
No, but the second largest corporation talking about how the government should pay for their employee's health care seems laughable to me personally.
"Please tell me who is forcing all those people to work at Wal-Mart?"
No one except themselves.
"Sole proprietorships typically pay less than Wal-Mart and offer no benefits whatsoever. Should the taxpayers pay for their employee's health care too?"
I don't think taxpayers should have to pay for anyone's health care. Why is it some (maybe you) want to socialize costs and privatize profits?
"Where does your interference in the market end? Socialism?"
Where does it is a good question. It's hardly the "free market" when a business wants somebody to pay for their costs to operate (like health care benefits.)
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