Jason Mrkwa, who stocks food at a Wal-Mart in Kansas, says he cannot afford more than an old Dodge truck.Jason Mrkwa, who stocks food at a Wal-Mart in Kansas, says he cannot afford more than an old Dodge truck.Don't want a Wal-Mart coming to your town and destroying all the mom and pops? Don't worry. When the gov'mnt and the unions get done with Wal-Mart, it'll follow General Motors down another path ...
Stupid beyond belief. If you don't think your paid enough then work somewhere else, What a bunch of whining socialists.
translation, GOVERNMENTS figure out they can tax people more if they get paid more.
I bet if walmart made a few well targeted "contributions" these politicians would shut up quick.
Mr. Consultant, if WalMart paid you to look at their business inside and out and offer them suggestions on this, then fine. Otherwise, you're just assuming that you know more about running a business than they do, so STFU.
I did not read the whole article, but hey John! You stock food on a shelf. I am so sorry you don't have a Porsche in the garage. Call Howard Dean and the ACLU. I am sure at least one of your rights is being violated.
Wal-Mart is nothing more than the McDonald's of the retail world. Wal-Mart, like McDonald's is a low-wage earning job.
Who knows, with a good collection plate he may even get enough to bribe Yale or Harvard and get hisself edukated.
In the interest of brevity (and keeping my smart-ass remarks to a minimum), I shall address only this piece of economic illiteracy among the many brought forth in this article.
As the great Ronald Reagan said, "If you don't like it, vote with your feet. Move to another state."
America was founded on the principle of people who were unhappy with their fate moving to a better land. This guy clearly is unwilling to do that. Since he is unwilling to better his own condition by moving (as I have personally done, I'm not some rich elitist yelling "get a job" at the homeless here), I've just got two words for this guy, and they're not "Let's dance".
Why doesn't Jason Mrkwa take his stellar college credentials and put them to work elsewhere for more money so he can afford a brand new Ford F150? My college kids tell me there is no degree in Walmart offered at their school.
If you cannot make it on Walmart wages, then you need to seek employment with an employer who will pay you what you feel your labor is worth. It's called free market capitalism. Skills that enable you to work in a Walmart store don't lend themselves to high salaried positions.Go back to school. Increase your marketability. Work more than one job. Don't rely on the government to make your living for you by trying to force an employer to pay more than your job skills are worth. The end result will be that Walmart will fire employees and pay fewer employees a higher salary, but pay the same in total wage cost.
Liberals won't be happy until they've pulled Walmart down, like they been trying to do with many other good things in this country, come to think of it.
Liberals don't like patriotism, chastity, or free enterprise, to name a few. They LOVE government, however, because they want power, and it is their only possible hope to gain power over people in this country.
The Dems and Unions are just dying to get their hands on all of that Wal-Mart money. Oh yeah, and I'm sure that they want to help that whiner who can't buy a new truck, too. ;-)
"says he cannot afford more than an old Dodge truck."
So what! I can "only" afford an ole Chevy Cavalier and I'm not bitchin,,,and I have a decent job. Walmart's aern't designed to be a long term employment option.
Are people this stupid on purpose or does it take practice??
I'm curious about what the liberals' darling, Target, pays. I doubt that it's any more, or if it is, their benefits probably aren't as good. This whole attack on WalMart is politically motivated, because the Walton family contributes to the GOP, whereas the Daytons (who owns Target) are huge contributors to the Dems.
Aside from that, this is stupid in any case. Don't like the pay? Get some more skills and get another job. The guy in the picture is young and looks strong and healthy. Why is he working at a job where many of the people are semi-retired, or moms who need a part-time job, etc.? WalMart doesn't build where there are no people and not enough income for people to buy its merchandise, so you know there are other jobs around there and he's just too lazy to get one or get the training necessary to get one.
Where we live- a small ( 16,000 ) southern city, that's pretty good wages.
Don't be afraid Jason, try to learn a marketable skill, like carpentry or plumbing or electronics. Then maybe you can get a better job than a stockboy at Wal mart.
"They don't pay a living wage," said Ms. Barker, who quit her $8.40-an-hour job in 2004 to take a $15-an-hour social work job. While at Sam's, she said, she qualified for Medicaid and $139 a month in food stamps.
So she quit her WalMart job, and gave up her food stamps and medicaid, for a job working for the gubmt, with gubmt insurance for next to nothing (we, taxpayers, pay for that, too), and higher gubmt wages (we always pay our 'civil servants' more than their private counterparts, they are worth it /s).
She evidently had a degree, so was she too lazy to seek proper employment previously? She is now a social worker. I feel better, and more secure, knowing that we can have great people, like this whiny troll, looking into other people's lives!
Wait a minute. Everyone who shops at Wal-Mart because of the great prices, say 'Ay.'
Everyone who participates in shopping knows that awful little secret: the best prices usually come with low wages for the people who work there. That covers a lot of territory, and makes all penny-pinching shoppers in cahoots.
Wal-Mart could solve all of its "problems" by supporting the RATS rather than the Republican Party.
Poor guy can't even afford to buy another vowel.