I have enjoyed your posts on this thread.
I also am sick of the whining. You get more if you try harder and improve yourself.
My mother was widowed in the Great Depression with small children. She went to school nights for secretarial skills,never fooled around with men,we did without (believe me,we did without),wore hand-me-downs,and we survived.
She ended up with a good job.I went to a state college as a day student and paid my own way, and we all ended up solid middle class.
Walmart would never have been her job of choice had they been around at that time,any more than Woolworth's or Kresge's was her choice.
That said,not for a moment am I criticising folks who work at Walmart. If they are happy there,that's fine with me,but don't ask me to subsidise them.
That was a generation of work and this is a generation of serve me, I don't want to work IMO.
There is of course some good old fashioned hard workers as well, many at WalMart I am sure, but these darn Unions are dying out and are trying to do anything to stay solvent and influential.
Bottom line is we don't need the unions in their current form any more.
Yes, there's a whole lot of assumin' goin' on here...you would think something prepared for the US Congress would involve genuine research...