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Wal-Mart calls for minimum wage hike
CNN/Money ^ | 10/25/5

Posted on 10/25/2005 2:29:37 PM PDT by Crackingham

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To: SittinYonder
Maybe if they'd stop spening all their money on useless crap from Walmart they wouldn't have to live pay-check to pay-check.

Yeah, like food and clothing!

Mark

41 posted on 10/25/2005 2:54:53 PM PDT by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: SandyInSeattle

no no no. They want the US government (you and me) to assist in a wealth transferrence scheme. Shoppers have more money, walmart has more money from the shoppers. They aren't growing fast enough and since people are maxed out, they are looking under new rocks for increased demand. How to do it? Print more money silly.


42 posted on 10/25/2005 2:54:55 PM PDT by kinghorse
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To: jb6

Walmart is one of the biggest friends we have in the Republican party.

Some of you hate everything.


43 posted on 10/25/2005 2:56:05 PM PDT by JFC
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To: Crackingham
Wow if Walmart feels that strong about the minimum wage, then no one in Walmart should be paid minimum wage... I have a funny feeling that is not the case.
44 posted on 10/25/2005 2:56:18 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Crackingham

And once again- I was mistaken. I was SURE this was from Scrappleface.


45 posted on 10/25/2005 2:56:59 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Crackingham

"Our customers(employees) simply don't have the money to buy basic necessities between pay checks."


Give me a friggin' break!
Is this rich or what! ROFLMAO


This coming from an employer whose hourly employees apply for food stamps so they can afford to buy groceries where they work.


46 posted on 10/25/2005 2:57:44 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: Ethrane

Supply and demand. If Wal-Mart raises wages, others must follow suit to attract employees. Government intervention is unnecessary.


47 posted on 10/25/2005 2:58:46 PM PDT by KarinG1
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To: ThinkDifferent
Unless the point of your grandstanding is to push for regulations that will harm your competitors more than you ....

That nail went in with a single blow.

48 posted on 10/25/2005 2:58:55 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Crackingham

This is all about what Wal-Mart wants to have happen to it's competition. If Wal-Mart wants to raise the minimum wage that they are willing to pay, there is nothing you or I can do to stop them.


49 posted on 10/25/2005 3:00:37 PM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: KarlInOhio

The power to set the minimum wage is in the same section that the right to abortion is in.


50 posted on 10/25/2005 3:01:44 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: SittinYonder
Maybe if they'd stop spening all their money on useless crap from Walmart they wouldn't have to live pay-check to pay-check.

Wal-Mart's groceries are the cheapest of any grocery store in the area where I live. In addition to groceries, I buy socks, underwear, motor oil, and other things there because they are cheaper than the alternatives. How is that "useless crap"?

51 posted on 10/25/2005 3:02:08 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: KarinG1

You are assuming that Walmart has to raise wages to attract workers....and they do not. My good friend is the local WMT manager, and he has NO trouble attracting workers.


52 posted on 10/25/2005 3:02:26 PM PDT by Ethrane ("semper consolar")
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To: My2Cents
Roger that. Minimum wage was for "beginner" type jobs. Jobs that you got in the summers, after school, to supplement you while you while you actually learned a marketable skill.

The democrats have turned that minimum wage into a life style. If someone is making minimum wage and they are over the age of 25, then I would say they have a serious LIFETIME problem unless they get their butts in gear.

It is your responsibility to learn a skill, get an education, job training, etc. to make yourself more marketable and thus earn a better living. If you and your "wife/live in girl friend" are trying to "raise" a family of two or three kids, while you both are "earning" minimum wage, then I would suggest birth control of some type. You should not be bringing more children into the world if minimum wage is the best you are going to accomplish.

On the ferry I ride to work each morning, just a few weeks ago, this leftist was whining about making $8 an hour, the cost of gas, etc. I asked him, "if you don't mind, how old are you?" He said he was 42 years old. I asked him what he did. He was a "gofer" in an office. I asked him what college he went too? He did not go to college. I asked if he had been to some type of special training, like an electrician, plumber, carpenter, auto mechanic, etc. He said, NO! I said, then what have you done to prepare yourself for that $50,000 a year job that keeps escaping you while you are working as a gofer at an office. He got really mad. Staring at me like he could kill me. I then simply said to him, "Your inability to prepare yourself for life, learn a marketable skill, get job training, etc. is not my fault and you should not be expecting me or anyone else WHO DID to carry your ass through life." A lot of people were laughing and this guy was having a cow.

It was, of course, our fault that his life sucked. We prepared. He didn't. He "didn't get a chance" in life. I told him not everyone was a rocket scientist, not everyone was college material, etc., however, you could at least LEARN a skill that can get you through life. Heck, I didn't complete college either. I have about 2 years of college, however, I have plenty of training that I learned in the military. That is THE ONE good thing about the military, there are plenty of good training opportunities in the military. Mechanic, combat engineers learn many types of earth moving, building type skills, medical skills, clerical, military police, computers, etc. There is more than just the infantry type jobs there. Lots of jobs you get on the job training at. Like military police. At age 18, you can go through MP school, and learn for three years about being a law enforcement person. Then, get out at age 21 and become a civilian cop. MOST ALL civilian police forces will not hire you till you are 21. You'd already have 3 years experience on those people, from the military.

53 posted on 10/25/2005 3:04:07 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Socialist Dems, the MSM and Islamic murderers, ALL threats to the Republic!)
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To: RetiredArmy

Well-said. Of course, the Dems would prefer to keep people struggling along at minimum wage -- these are the people who look to government to help them along.


54 posted on 10/25/2005 3:06:39 PM PDT by My2Cents (Dead people voting is the closest the Democrats come to believing in eternal life.)
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To: Crackingham

Strictly PR. For the masses to gorge on.



55 posted on 10/25/2005 3:06:59 PM PDT by TexanToTheCore (Rock the pews, Baby)
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To: SGCOS

LOL! You've been listening in on my conversations!


56 posted on 10/25/2005 3:13:22 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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To: SittinYonder

I quit going to wallyworld to shop and I have saved lots of money. My husband is very pleased, until he wants to go to wallyworld and buy useless crap and I won't let him. ;)


57 posted on 10/25/2005 3:14:40 PM PDT by tioga
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To: FreedomCalls; MarkL

Here's the useless crap I had in mind:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3933953

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3913741&cat=91849&type=1&dept=4044&path=0%3A4044%3A103150%3A97116%3A91849

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3302133&cat=133113&type=1&dept=4044&path=0%3A4044%3A133012%3A133113

Certainly Walmart sells at better prices than others the necessities of life, such as foodstuffs. A Walmart supercenter recently opened in our town and we've now started grocery shopping there and are saving money as a result.

But Walmart also offers useless junk at such reasonable prices that people feel compelled to buy it whether they need it or not. I'm not suggesting this is Walmart's fault, but I suspect that my family is not alone in buying useless crap from Walmart. And I further suspect that some portion of these people probably spend enough of their income at Walmart buying useless crap that it puts them in financial straits. Again, not Walmart's fault.

But here we have a CEO of a company suggesting that the federal government raise the minimum wage. I don't know what Walmart pays its employees, but certainly he is entitled to raise his company's wages. But why should other small business owners be forced to pay more just because Walmart's CEO thinks they should?


58 posted on 10/25/2005 3:24:08 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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To: tioga
My husband is very pleased, until he wants to go to wallyworld and buy useless crap and I won't let him.

LOL. I never announce that I am off to buy useless crap, and I always hide it for some period of time after I have. That way I can honestly say, when Mrs. Yonder asked where I picked up a particular piece of useless crap, "Oh, I've had that for a few weeks now."

Besides, the whole point of them spending less is so that I have more to spend on the useless crap I want!

59 posted on 10/25/2005 3:26:27 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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To: Crackingham

Wal-Mart Calls for its Competition to Raise Prices


60 posted on 10/25/2005 3:29:23 PM PDT by TChad
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