If higher paying jobs were being replaced by lower paying jobs how do you explain this graph?
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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Yes, I am in school, working on an MBA, after having a fun time with IT unemployment/underemployment, etc. This built upon a 12 year military career where I got to see a very large chunk of the world. And for your information, I've had plenty of hands on experience, especially to see through the Free Trade fantasies.
LOL.
Isn't that what I should be doing?
I tried to make a similar point, but was pretty much told that was not the focus of this topic........SIGH.
Good for you and your advancement in your position.
I don't particularly care for shopping, but do not mind the local Walmart, it's bright, clean, and the employees are all friendly, knowlegeable, and seem to enjoy their jobs.
I've been in others that I didn't care for, but as you say, local lmanagers probably play more of a part in that than anything.
LOL!!!! here we are again.......and it's Tuesday!!!!
Well what about NAFTA? Isn't that a Free Trade Zone? And yet the Mexicans are pouring in at an even faster rate then ever.
Thanks!
I get mighty tired of people ripping WALMART ,without ever talking to employees at WALMART!
There are always two sides to a story!
I live in a nice community in rural eastern Virginia and so have to shop in Walmart in Maryland - but it sounds like yours...clean with nice staff and customers.
Tunnel vision can be hazardus to your health...........
Oh come on. You know full well that any post that includes Walmart, can only tell us that the employees are slaves, they drive out all the good paying jobs that mom and pop provide, they are the only ones who sell products from China, they cause all of America's problems, pay no taxes at all, steal land from people and truly need to be unionized. It's the same crap every week.
Any luck finding a source that shows the under $25,000 earner is the fastest growing group in America? Or can we just assume you made it up (lied)?
That's because neither party will build a wall on the border and enforce immigration laws. Unlike before NAFTA when we had zero illegals, right?
Yes - it is.
Oh well - I'm headed back out to the garden, I still have another half acre to finish planting seeds in..........Seeds, BTW I purchased in Walmart that come from Pennsylavania and the last time I looked at a map PA was in the US and not China :)
I'll check back here later!
I have a hard time believing that Wal Mart is your sole-source of income for your entire family. You must have something else going for you on the side.
It is not my intention to put you down; I'm looking at the bigger picture and seeing what your company is doing to other American jobs and Chinese slave labor and how they broke their pledge and how they treat their American suppliers because of their hegemony in the retail market. They don't ask their suppliers for a quote. They tell them what they are going to pay them. That's bully tactics in my book.
OK, now granted that Wal Mart employees contribute to the tax revenues. A lot more would be contributed to the tax revenues were it not for higher-paying American jobs that are gone forever because manufacturing is declining and going overseas. Do you ever think about things like that?
Do you ever think that a lot of our industrial base has gone overseas and our national defense and troops are threatened because we have to order a lot of the spare parts from China?
Ah yes, unions again. I didn't read every word on their website, but I did read they want a living wage for workers and a minimum wage of $7.15. I certainly don't agree with all of their agenda, especially it's all Bush's fault, but I do not hate unions across the board and never have had anything much to do with them. My ex husband belonged to one . I never paid much attention one way or another. He certainly got good pay and regular wage increases. His new wife works at Wal Mart as a greeter. Even THAT is not the reason I don't like Wal Mart.
I don't like it that Wal Mart is open 24/7. That means some people have to work on their sabbath and at night when the store is practically empty. For the life of me, I don't see why Wal Mart is so greedy to work people like that.
I don't like Wal Mart. Period. I don't like the atmosphere being in that huge place. It has no aesthetic merits whatsoever, strictly utilitarian and functional. I'm not talking marble floors. The place is row after row of ugly. I don't know how people can stand being trapped in there for a full shift.
If I find any people that work at Wal Mart and can ask without being too nosy, I'll do exactly that.
I don't feel sorry for you if you are happy. I feel sorry for people who are not making it working for Wal Mart and other places like them. I feel sorry for the jobs Wal Mart took by driving local businesses out of business when they come to town because they can't compete.
Now please direct your Wal Mart rah rah to another poster. If you can think outside of your box long enough to comment on how other people are affected, I would have more respect for you, even if I might disagree with you.
You do get some credit for not calling me the worst kind of epithets short of profanity you will find on this forum. It must be your Wal Mart training to be nice to the customers or you were brought up to be more polite. In any case, you do seem a little steamed up about it all.
I hope your CEO's are starting to wake up to the fact that not everybody loves them. I would even accuse you of being a Wal Mart shill, but I see you signed up in February, and I don't think we had talked about Wal Mart to this extent, just in passing, before this thread.
"Wal-Mart has most of its business in the United States, which is more than can be said for Mrs. Heinz-Kerry."
You would be correct.
That's interesting about the Supercenters. The only bad experience I ever had in Walmart was in the first one built in Dover, Delaware. It wasn't a supercenter, it was a smaller store........and I was never happy or comfortable in there.
Now I shop in a Supercenter that I really, really like. and have had employees send me to other stores if thye didn't have what I was looking for. A couple of weeks ago I spoke with the pharmacist looking for a particular product a friend had bought there but I couldn't find. The pharmacist asked me I don't know how many different questions and finally said he would prefer I took my daughter to her doctor before I went buying any more of the OTC stuff I had purchased before. Because of the chemical contents of the products he was uncomfortable with the idea of my using anymore of it - I really appreciated his time, concern, and honesty.
Again, it probably boils down to the local management.
Now, I am really going back outside to plant more of my Walmart purchased seeds !!!!!!!!!
Is that my only choice, your intrusive nanny government that regulates peoples lives in the sure knowledge I can't decide how to make decisions for myself, or no government at all? How about a government that simply allows people to form contracts with other people for employment and salary, without some government know it all deciding what the terms should be. If I want to hire you at 4 dollars an hour and you are willing to work for me at that salary, why is it the governments business to tell either of us we can't freely make that decision? Be careful answering that, because a negative answer can only come from the premise that one of us is too stupid to make a decision affecting our personal lives and freedom.
If higher paying jobs were being replaced by lower paying jobs how do you explain this graph?
Now you are entering into the realm of using facts instead of feeeeeeeeeeeelings........don't you know how unfair that is to others?
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