[SittinYonder]

Maybe if they'd stop spening all their money on useless crap from Walmart they wouldn't have to live pay-check to pay-check.

[Theodore R.]

It seems to me that Wal-Mart should raise its own minimum wage (maybe $8.50), and then many other employers will follow the W-M lead. The popular W-M should also hire more workers to staff their many vacant registers to speed up customer service.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"Don't give our employees more money, but give our customers more money so they can buy crap from China."

[My2Cents]

The "minimum wage" was never meant to be a living wage, because the originators of the concept never expected people to make a career out of flipping burgers at McDonalds.

[ThinkDifferent]

Scott told Wal-Mart directors and executives in a speech Monday that he believes "it is time for Congress to take a look at the minimum wage and other legislation that can help working families."

Lee, I have an idea that doesn't require an act of Congress: go ahead and raise your wages right now. Unless the point of your grandstanding is to push for regulations that will harm your competitors more than you, but that certainly isn't the case, is it?

[Not A Snowbird]

How stupid. Wal-Mart can raise its wage anytime it wants to.

[ElkGroveDan]

Sellouts. If they think it's going to do anything to get the collectivists off their backs their dreaming. It's just going to encourage the labor goons to keep up the pressure toward a full cave-in.

[xcamel]

Maybe if they were smarter than rubbing two sticks together, they'd make more than minimum.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Perhaps Wal Mart could lower their prices, at least for their poorest customers. Maybe Chavez (D, Venezuela) would make up the difference rather than WM having to go, hat in hand, to its chinese bosses.

[Perdogg]

Raise it to $6.75 an hour. That's all.

[finnman69]

http://jibjab.com/Home.aspx

See Big Box Mart

[i.l.e.]

Might as well say : "WALMART CALLS FOR INFLATION AND HIGHER TAXES".....

[mnehring]

arrruuuggghhh.....
The ignorance of basic economics out there just makes me scream..
If you raise the minimum wage to 10.00 per hour, that is still minimum; prices and wages will be base-lined against that. (ie, after the initial short term impact, there will be a net ZERO gain in spending power..)

[theDentist]

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said he's urging Congress to consider raising the minimum wage so that Wal-Mart customers don't have to struggle paycheck to paycheck.

So raise your own minimum wage pay on your own and leave Congress out of it!

[KarlInOhio]

I think this is mislabeled. Are you sure it's not from Scrappleface?

Wal-Mart calls for minimum wage hike

KarlInOhio calls for federal government to identify power to set minimum wage in the Constitution.

Offers bloodhounds and a magnifying glass to help them find it. And don't lift it up to the light and use it to cast shadows to try to find it there.

[kentj]

It is just simple math the last time the min wage went up so did WM sales, and Family Dollar, Dollar General and a raft of discounters it's no secret - there is a buffer of time before the actual min wage actually hits the economy and huge profits can be banked - now will Burger King, Mcdonalds, landscape companies hundreds and thousands of other small business have the same windfall - NOPE

[Zathras]

Proof that you don't need to be a Rocket Scientist to be a CEO

[Gabz]

If groups such as WalMart Watch are against it - it must be good.

With that said, I still can't figure out where WM is coming from on this. Where I live WM starting hourly wage is far higher than minimum wage and higher than most other retail places in the area.

[zerosix]

No one is preventing WalMart from raising their own minimum wage, they can do that without unilaterally insisting on every other corporation following suit.

That way WalMart will attract better employees, who, after leaving current employment to take better paying jobs at WalMart, other companies will have to consider matching wages or risk losing good employees - it's called free enterprise.

[Old Seadog]

"There's a minimum wage?"