[LadyNavyVet]

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.

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[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.]




That is the best illustration of the failure of the wealth redistribution schemes of the outdated Keynesian economic policies still advocated by Democrats, socialists and all those other self described "compassionate" people. Mandating that workers be compensated in greater amounts than that determined by the free market ALWAYS comes at a cost that must eventually be paid in the form of higher prices for everyone and higher unemployment throughout the workforce.

TANSTAAFL