Posted on 04/09/2014 11:56:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
In the series "The Secret Life of a Food Stamp," Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What's more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the workers themselves qualify for food stamps—which the employees then often spend at those big-box stores...
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Related article at Slate: Would Walmart’s Prices Spike If They Paid Their Employees More?
If Wal-Mart doesn’t pay you the money you think you deserve...Don’t Work There!!!
Most of the people that work at walmart are seniors supplementing their income or young’uns who forgot to finish high school.
Are Wal*Mart employees alive?
If they aren’t being paid a living wage, they should all be dead, eh?
The real question is that if WalMart is so awful and greedy, and they could increase their prices without losing business and market share, then why aren’t they already charging these prices and pocketing the money?
There's a ladder to this work thing. If you're at the bottom, it's probably because that's where you belong. Unskilled workers are a dime a dozen.
And I don't mean that in a bad way.....It's just the way it is. Why should they make as much as someone who worked and got through high school...as worked for many years. And there are plenty of workers who abhor responsibility.
Retail jobs are not intended to be family supporting and one of the reasons most are part time.
If it were not for US Govt intimidate and extortion, the wages folks earn working at Wal-Mart would be a living wage. Just look at what g0vt caused inflation has done to prices, go back 15 years and the $10 an hour employees at WalMart make would go along, long way.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits,WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bankdoes.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority.They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-pickingthing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi.She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not letthem con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... is up to you.
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
Maine is doing something about it, we are seceding.
Wal-Mart pays what people are willing to work for
Wrong damn question!
And often more than they deserve...
Good video, thought provoking.
If Wal-Mart doesn’t pay you the money you think you deserve...Don’t Work There!!!
The country is changing. Has changed. It’s not wal-mart’s fault that it’s the only place people can find work now.
Not sure how accurate any of it is. My wife is an hourly employee, has worked at Walmart for 14 years and makes about $16 per hour, which is well above other jobs in the area for equivalent work. The healthcare is great, although it is getting more expensive now that Odeathcare is in effect.
Yes, there is plenty of BS at the job. However, you can find that at any job.
If Slate paid its unpaid interns any wages, would it still be economically viable?
Walmart is no different than Target or Dollar General…What do they pay in Williston North Dakota?? Check this ad!!!!
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What kind of free market crazy talk is that??
Many Wal-Mart employees have the best of both worlds.
They get enough from their paycheck to have fun, yet earn so little, they can still get .gov handouts and be low ranking members of the FSA.
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