Posted on 01/06/2014 6:54:56 AM PST by steelhead_trout
Edited on 01/06/2014 6:58:56 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
According to The Huffington Post, Congressional Democrats released a study Thursday that demonstrated how Wal-Mart’s wages are so low that many of its workers must rely on food stamps and other government aid programs, costing taxpayers as much as $900,0000 at just one Wal-Mart Supercenter in Wisconsin.
The report, “The Low-Wage Drag on Our Economy,” was produced by Democrats with the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Huckabee went to the dark side, no question.
Why not try debating them in hopes of educating them vs. the typical troll idiocy around here?
If they refuse to be educated, then ZOT them...
“things like not having the government shut down business or let them expand due to onerous environmental concerns, not allow the Keystone Pipeline to be built (the government’s not building it, private companies want to do THAT, but the government won’t issue the permits), closing coal generated electrical power plants, when our nation is the Saudi Arabia of coal, stupid OHSA regs, highest corporate tax rate in the developed world, et cetera, et cetera, we would have many more GOOD jobs—probably running into the millions of decent jobs. “
With the implementation of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996... the arguments about people starting to work when welfare is stopped... died. The proof is in the reduction of unemployed and the success of WORKFARE over WELFARE. You are correct!
Furthermore, you may be attempting to 'educate' a paid troll. There are paid trolls these days, especially on the liberal side.
Okay, I am willing to concede that you are a second paid troll.
I remember 1973 like yesterday. My Dad was a diesel mechanic. He made a decent wage. Still we didn’t have air conditioning in the house. Dad had a old pickup and Ma had a old chevy wagon. We had one TV, black and white. One phone, ATT, black, rotary dial. Ma had to work long hours in the kitchen preparing food from scratch. Fun for me was playing records on my portable, 1962 era record player and hanging out with my friends.
I got my first job working as a dish-washer at Howard Johnson’s. I made $1.10 and hour!
Then the first ever oil embargo by OPEC hit during the Yom Kippur war in October. The freight industry my Dad worked at was devastated. He was laid off. My salary went to my parents to buy food. Luckily Dad was rehired at another freight company (for a higher wage) right before Christmas.
We didn’t have any of the following:
Microwave
Big screen TVs
VCRs
BluRay DVDs
Music CDs (richer folks had 8 track tapes)
Computers
Tablets
Smart Phones
Cordless house phones with push buttons
Health care plans (you got sick, you paid Doctor Brown $10 and he’d swing buy your house).
NO Walmart. Just a store run by two old guys who charged an arm and a leg, or we’d go 20 miles to the cheaper Piggly Wiggly or more costly Winn-Dixie. These stores had no:
Microwave meals
Premade foods
Instant anything
No diet soda
Review his posting history yourself. C. Edmund owes you nothing.
I'm well aware, and they all need to go. Sarah Palin talks vigorously about the perils of crony capitalism, and how it is no more conservative than welfare or unions.
In my opinion, it's straight up fascism, like Krupps or I.G. Farben working with and the Nazi Party...
Today, it is GE or Comcast working with the democrats...
Notice that they are not attacking Target, which pays their cashiers minimum wage to start, and treats their employees worse than Walmart.
Looks like a troll mine on this thread.
Yup.
You make the call.
I don’t owe you links, and I’m not linking to his forum posts….anyone can go see for themselves that this poster, and you too BTW, are ant market fully liberal occupy types. What an infantile response on your part.
I remember 1973 like it was yesterday, too, and some things were similar to your case (dad got laid off at Navy base due to post-Vietnam closings, and worked as a drywaller until rehired at Navy base turned into defense plant). But we did have health plans (Blue Cross), finally got a color TV in 1971 (pricey!) and we did have department stores (Zayre’s, Woolworth, WT Grant). Supermarkets were just starting to kill off the grocery stores. Diet soda was around, but you couldn’t pay me to drink it, and there were a few instant things like minute rice, jiffy corn muffin mix etc. You’re right about the high tech goodies not being around, of course.
oh darn, you beat me to it…..(hadn’t seen it yet)
But great minds DO think alike…..
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