[steelhead_trout]

Wally World keeps it's wages dirt cheap--while the Waltons are sitting on untold billions and billions of dollars--and instructs its workers how to go on the dole! McDonalds does the same thing.

[JRandomFreeper]

Envy is an ugly thing.

/johnny

[driftdiver]

Sounds like a worst cases scenario to me and certainly not based on reality.

The same could be said of ANY employer who pays below around $15/hr.

[CaptainK]

Is the problem with Walmart or the current government that gives out food stamps like candy?

[laweeks]

I guess if it's so terrible working there . . . WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE! . . . let Wal-Mart respond. They sure come up with some damned stupid reasons to trash this company.

If you don't like your wages, 1) don't work there, and 2) go somewhere else. If a lot of people left, then Wal-Mart would have to respond. Same with Micky-Ds. Econ101

[markomalley]

Would Wally World pay their employees more if there were no government subsidies?

No?

Then they aren’t relying upon taxpayers to subsidize their wages.

[Alex Murphy]

Wally World keeps it's wages dirt cheap--while the Waltons are sitting on untold billions and billions of dollars--and instructs its workers how to go on the dole! McDonalds does the same thing.

So speaks the 99%.

[chatham]

If she wants a target for wasting Taxpayer monies ,I would suggest the supremely wastful “President ?” Barack “THE Big SPENDER” Obama.
Billions and Billions, and Billions, WASTED.

[TomGuy]

Walmart is soooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeevil and wages are so low that only some 20,000 applicants applied for some 600 jobs in the recently-opened stores in the DC area.

[safeasthebanks]

I think you’re on the wrong website, pinko.

[KarlInOhio]

Is any other low end retail or fast food different? The "mom & pop" stores that Wal-Mart supposedly kills (although the bigger victims were national stores like KMart or local discounters like Gold Circle and Rink's where I lived) weren't exactly giving $20/hour jobs to cashiers.

Wal-Mart didn't become the bad guy nationally until they crossed the line from the largely non-unionized discount merchandise stores to the unionized grocery business. That was when they became the focus of evil in America. Trace the complaints and you'll find the unions and unionized competitors behind them.

[Kansas58]

we are better off with Walmart than without!

[JoeDetweiler]

OK...I am imagining a world in which Walmart tells someone that they won’t be hired because they have too many children to support at a given wage level, and their IQ pretty much guarantees that they won’t be promoted to a higher position.

Liberal heads would explode!

[nhwingut]

Wally World keeps it's wages dirt cheap--while the Waltons are sitting on untold billions and billions of dollars

Is that you, Elizabeth Warren?

[bgill]

This might be radical thinking but if they don’t like Walmart’s wages then take their limited skills someplace that will pay them more. Good luck with that.

[bray]

Makes me want to shop at Wal-Mart. What is the difference between them and every other company needing low wage workers? Does everybody at WM make minimum wage? More Marxism is the answer.

Pray America is Waking

[Tupelo]

I have to call BULLCRAP on this one. My brother in law works for Walmart and makes a damn fine living. An old friend from high school retired from Walmart afew years back as a millionaire.

Walmart pays minimum wages as starting salary but they advance good employees. Usually promoting from within.

[vanilla swirl]

Perhaps if gubmint did NOT provide any benefits then the workers would move on to wages that were capable of supporting their families, Walmart wouldn’t have any workers so if they wanted to stay in business would offer higher wages.

That troublesome freemarket thingy.

[John 3_19-21]

IBTZ

[redgolum]

This article is correct. Walmart pays so low that the state subsidizes most of the wages and benefits to its employees.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If there weren't food stamps and welfare, people would have to earn a lot less to make ends meet.

Anything government does is inefficient and corrupt.