Posted on 05/26/2005 6:27:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Because of Wal-Mart's inadequate wages and benefits, Wal-Mart employees are eligible for $2.5 billion in Federal assistance, which comes from your tax dollars.
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And the people at WalMart could have great other skills and still might prefer WalMart's job environment and wage.
This is all about unions trying to sabotage a major US employer because their organizations are dying everywhere but in the government and docks.
You are right, people who start the business take considerable risk, often go broke a few times and work easily 16 hour days for most of their life.
They are what makes the country go.
Know of any homeless people employing anyone? I don't either.
I see, you are just helping him out here on earth eh. You are presuming to speak for him and all.
That hasn't always been. Without benefits, the lucky ones who fall into serious health crises would be bankrupted overnight.
I buy my own medical insurance, and it is expensive. If medical costs weren't so sky high, I would try to pay as I go. A catastrophic illness can literally kill you. You land in the hospital with some terrible thing like stroke, heart or cancer, and wish you were dead if you don't have insurance to cover the astronomical costs. The stress of it can kill you.
It's up to the employer to treat their employees fairly, starting with paying them enough money to live on or they are nothing more than exploiters, the kind of people who caused the revolution in Russia. I don't want to see that happen here. It won't because the government is too powerful.
So instead we will have more dysfunctional people like the guy here who stalked his girlfriend who had his kid from her job at the mall, rammed her car, the police saw it, chased him, he wrecked his car, took off, police went after him, he knocked the policeman unconscious, commandeered the squad car, got his gun, found himself cornered and shot himself.
Why is this relevant? Poor-paying jobs and related societal pressures caused by a breakdown in morality and exploitative business practices are putting people over the edge. Don't forget these are not nine to five people who can go home and relax. They have to work all kinds of crazy hours, and it throws their biological clocks off.
I still love Sears. Good service, great products and good prices.
Kenmore RULES!
I had one problem with a camera I bought once. I took it back and got a new one and a 20% credit for a future purchase.
I did not say "in all of" USA. I said "in most of", maybe I should have said "in many parts of".
In Poland you can do without car, in America you will do fine without car in such places like Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In this nice town the subsistance involves rent, coffee, croissants and books :)
Then we both hope Sears will be around for a long time.
I doubt it. Throughout revelation starting with the Jews coming out of Egypt, they had a capitalist-type economy with moral warnings to use proper weights on the scales. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
All I was pointing out is what the bible says about arrogant, stingy people who have much and give no thought to the poor and what they have will be taken from them and given to another.
In depends on the part of the country you live in. There are plenty of studies on that subject and they are being used to determine the poverty level.
Living wage and poverty level differs between countries, regions and depends also on climate (you MUST have heat in winter in Russia and Canada).
That is why unions are so strong in the big city, you don't think they would have flourished without the blessings of the demo rats and the mob now do you?
"I did not say "in all of" USA. I said "in most of", maybe I should have said "in many parts of"."
So how do we determine what employers are required to provide a car for their employees and which aren't?
Shades of Joe Stalin..
That is not what I am asking for. I am asking for Wal Mart to do the moral thing and shave off some of their billions and companies like them to pay their people a living wage as defined in previous posts.
Wal Mart is so powerful they can dictate to suppliers what they will pay. That's what they did to Rubbermaid. Luckily Rubbermaid squeaked by that one, but how long they can hold on is anybody's guess.
I don't want any other dish drainers than Rubbermaid because I'm spoiled and Rubbermaid is an American company who obviously has to import their materials from the foreign market. I liked K-Mart and Sears as separate entities. All these buyouts are not good for our country in the long run.
In the 70's during a four-year period as a computer programmer, my company changed hands twice; my paycheck had three different company names on it. Luckily they bought the employees in the buyout and only brought the new managers in. That was the 70's.
"In depends on the part of the country you live in."
So then what should the minimum wage be in Pennsylvania for example?
He is also free to own a major newpaper or to own a personal airjet or to become a TV star. Everything is available to him. He must be too stupid to know it.
Sixteen dollars an hour is about right for a living wage today in our country unless you have something going on the side.
nonsense, listen... "I" shop at the Salvation Army!!! have for years and as far as used stuff from flea sales, i do that too but, most things now days- the new is almost as cheap as the used... that's why so many people shop at Wally's, they can buy new instead of used for a couple bucks more.
I have no idea.
I was self employed for many years (still am to a certain extent) and did what I had to do to keep my clients happy and pay my bills, and at times paying the bills meant also waiting tables or manning a cash register at the local convenience store. I did what I had to do, without whining, and so did my husband.
In this fantasy world everybody flipping burgers can afford a house with a white picket fence, a car, company picnics, and a cheap and honest auto mechanic.
The auto mechanic comment had me roaring laughing.........what does that have to do with an employer - unless of course the employer is an expensive, dishonest auto mechanic. ROFL!!!!
So instead we will have more dysfunctional people like the guy here who stalked his girlfriend who had his kid from her job at the mall, rammed her car, the police saw it, chased him, he wrecked his car, took off, police went after him, he knocked the policeman unconscious, commandeered the squad car, got his gun, found himself cornered and shot himself.
Why is this relevant?
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I have to hand it to you, you have a rich fantasy life. Have you considered writing novels? This is a pretty good story line. Was this a Wal-mart employee or a Viet Nam Veteran suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome? Maybe his brains were fried by global warming, or was it those terrible additives in food. Or too many twinkies...
"That is not what I am asking for. I am asking for Wal Mart to do the moral thing and shave off some of their billions and companies like them to pay their people a living wage as defined in previous posts."
So their should be a minimum wage... but not in law? An optional minimum wage?
Can I at least have an estimate of the living wage that they should morally pay their employees in your fantasy world? Then maybe we can try to contemplate how much that would cost investors that own Wal-mart stock, how many Wal Mart stores would have to shut down, and in turn how many of the people you claim to be helping would now be unemployed.
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