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.
Philanthropy is good. And were those “chicken men” Tyson? I’ve heard bad things about Tyson back when Clinton was running for President. They were big backers of him.
IBTZ!
it is a old study and it plays with the facts in how it interprets that statistics that it uses
it points to a “high number” of Walmart employees in a state’s systems of subsidized support, compared to other employers in the state, but it ignores what that number represents in terms of the total number of Walmart employees in the state and how the number of Walmart’s employees in the state compare to other employers number of employees
but that even “high number” does not actually identify Walmart employees in the state (Wisconsin) system; it merely extrapolates how many Walmart employees “could” be getting state subsidiesa, based on a set of Walmart wages (not household income of a Walmart employee just a Walmart wage) and the income eligibility criteria for various benefits, without confirming how or if the study’s guestimate matches reality - which other studies have shown it does not
if that were not enough, you’d have to combine a good many retail industry employers together to equal a number of employees equal to Walmart, and after doing that look at how all their employees stack up in terms of state subsidized assistance - a task the study does not even attempt, because that would be comparin.g apples with apples and not apples with oranges
no matter what anyone thinks of Walmart, merely because of it’s size it is a target, and a media patsy for various political agendas from the Leftists.
Amen bros….
We have people dependent now on prices that come from serf level wages in totalitarian and virtually totalitarian countries. They’re dependent because the wages stagnated as workers turned to slave priced products and employers didn’t see the need to raise wages to keep their best workers. The workers thought they were doing ok due to low costs. Then fuel jumped by a third, then food, and now medical care has been artificially exploded by obamacare.
Their costs are going through the roof and here they are in a dead-end low wage job because it used to be ok when buying slave level products.
Bite the economic bullet and buy only quality American made that will outlast the cheap by a decade.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
cannot be said enough!!!!!!!. So I’ll repeat your post:
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Unions and gooberment regulations were the death of manufacturing in this county.
Yup.
The “study” is as flawed as any study the Dims ever do.
It does NOT identify “Walmart employees” in the state (Wisonsin” in the state’s system of subsidized assistance.
It takes a set of “Walmart wages” (*** not Walmart employees ‘household income - the real basis of state assistance) and it takes an average number of Walmart employees in a Walmart store and then it mere extrapolates a number of Walmart employees that COULD BE on state susbidized assistance (*** and it ignores - ‘cause it does not know - ‘household income’ which is what that assistance is based on).
It’s a totally flawed study (it’s been used more than once by the Dims) and they love to trot it out because they know there is as much populism based ignorance among grass roots Conservatives as there is in their own flock.
Thanks for putting forth the facts about this “study”.
Of course, trolls never let facts get in the way of a good old screed.
I learned, after a couple years of getting the Business Insider in my Email, that I could trust it for objectivity about as much as I could The Daily Kos.
What is so different about that? Our lower rank Military if married do not make enough money to provide good housing and food for their families. It’s been that way for decades. While wages went up at tad, it was not enough to keep pace with the cost of living!
Yet we have a 6 figured salaried congress, with a golden pension, and Platinum health care for life and it covers their kids until they are 26. I don’t see dingy harry writing that extra check to the IRS.
What I do see is he and RINOS like TN’s sen. lamar alexader vote to cut, gut Military pensions, and health care, that is already very rationed. They won’t give up one dime. Meanwhile they keep greasing DOD contractors palms with billions of $$ for items the Military says it does not want or need.
They knew they were going to close the Commissaries, yet they went ahead and installed $7,000 speed bumps in 5mph parking lots, and installed electronic price stickers. Mre palm greasing.
Alas, there is a ready market for this bilge, as well as those even on this forum who will swallow it hook, line, and sinker...
I don’t disagree...however, some folks find forums and do have some misguided or misinformed positions...I was and to some degree am still one of those.
As I learned a long time ago, just when you think you’ve learned all there is to learn, someone will come along and teach you different.
I learn something just about every time I log on to FR...I’ve become much better at engaging in civil debate and do occassionally change my position on matters as a result of that debate...but call me a troll or libtard simply because I disagree with a position and I’ll cease engaging.
What benefit is there in that if we can’t take a mentoring approach first and work to inform and educate people into coming over to the conservative position?
Eventually both get big, and the lines between the two become blurred......And that's when you get Fascism.
As I learned a long time ago, just when you think you’ve learned all there is to learn, someone will come along and teach you different.
I learn something just about every time I log on to FR...I’ve become much better at engaging in civil debate and do occassionally change my position on matters as a result of that debate...but call me a troll or libtard simply because I disagree with a position and I’ll cease engaging.
What benefit is there in that if we can’t take a mentoring approach first and work to inform and educate people into coming over to the conservative position?
It is these types that are not worth debating. They are trolls. They cannot be reliably engaged in debate. They should instead be ignored, and defeated in the political arena.
Democrats and the left are 100% supportive of the idea that taxpayers should subsidize low-wage voters.
That was a bunch of class-envy crap.
The liberal Democrats are fully supportive of tax-payers being robbed to subsidize the “poor”. Now they want to pretend to oppose it?
Huge joke right here.
DEATH TO THE KULAKS!
Then maybe the taxpayer should stop giving benefits to the poor? Maybe Democrats should stop using taxpayer cash to subsidize corporations too?
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