your arguments are great, and to top them off, I originally asked of him, "what other government aid did they STOP receiving now that they work for Wal-Mart"?
I'll say okay to health bennies if they are off AFDC and disability...maybe someday they will take a position there or elsewhere where they can also purchase their own health inisurance.
You're absolutely right. As soon as we accept the argument that WalMart is somehow responsible for providing health insurance for their workers, we're accepting socialism, which I will never do.
WalMart is a corporation in business to make a profit, not a welfare office for low-skilled workers. If people don't like the benefits, they are free to work elsewhere.
If WalMart workers qualify for government benefits, that's between them and the government, and if I as a taxpayer don't like what the government provides them, I have recourse in the voting booth.
To blame WalMart because some of their employees get Medicaid, food stamps, etc. is to accept one of the premises of socialism, that it's the employer's job to provide whatever employees demand. Socialism fails everywhere it's tried, including corporate America. Just ask the GM and Ford workers whose outrageous pay and benefits packages priced them out of their jobs.