A high price for a bitter banana

Futures and Commodity Market News ^ | 11.14.05 | E. Ray Walker

[Dr. Marten]

The Horse's Mouth

[Dr. Marten]

Ping.

[rellimpank]

--hogwash--

[null and void]

Geeeeeeeee, Ray, I'm so sorry they made you buy that banana.

[Jaxter]

When I saw the title I assumed this was going to be a post about Monica Lewinski.

[mewzilla]

I guess this guy would rather we go back to making cars by hand, too?

[Cicero]

If this fellow really feels that strongly about it, why did he buy the banana? Sounds like the Yuppie School of Instant Gratification to me.

[SouthernFreebird]

I fail to see how putting people to work increases medicaid. If they qualify for medicaid while working you can bet they also qualified while not working.

I've worked many locally owned places where my children still qualified for medicaid.

[kentj]

Okey dokey Doc - these jobs are transitional jobs - not careers - people have babies when they are young but they don't stay babies.

Walmart takes a lot of crap from the whiners who have had their way with the local communities sticking them with high prices for decades - well it's over - go Walmart - low prices, good safe jobs, a chance to grow in a company that is needed and wanted - go Walmart - to the rest of you Compete or go to ITT every cent counts.

Instead of bitching about Walmart bitch about the insurance, legal, Union and medical profession - here is a law for you - file a lawsuit and loose it = you spend six months in jail getting taught how to practice safe sex (your the practice dummy). Tort reform school if you will.

[xcamel]

[Toddsterpatriot]

Low prices are good; the more, the better. It's the shifting of Wal-Mart's labor costs onto taxpayers that doesn't sit well. Wal-Mart acknowledges that 46 percent of the children of its employees are uninsured or on Medicaid.

Hmmmmmm.....WalMart should immediately fire all their employees. Then 100% of the children will be uninsured or on Medicaid. We all know that 100% is better than 46%.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Seriously, Wal-Mart should shut down for a good week and see what type of impact it would have on America. What will states do when sales tax receipts dry up?

[PoorMuttly]

The banana that broke the camel's snack.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The more I think about it, that banana I bought did leave a bitter aftertaste.

All your food must taste bitter....with your head up your a$$.

[muir_redwoods]

So oil companies are bad because the they gouge us with high prices and Walmart is bad because their prices aren't high enough. Can anyone make sense out of this position?

[evolved_rage]

The more I think about it, that banana I bought did leave a bitter aftertaste.

Here's a hint: Don't stick it in your butt before you eat it.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The thing is, there shouldn't be a Medicaid anyway. If there wasn't a Medicaid (and a SS or Medicare) Wal-Mart or various third-party companies would be offering their own health plans for low-income or disabled folks. Wal-Mart is only doing what any other capitalist does - take advantage of the system in order to cut your costs and create more profit. Hey, it isn't Wal-Mart's fault that stupid politicians promise "the poor" the moon and stars that Medicaid would be there for them regardless if states racked up huge budget deficits.

Phase-out Medicaid and the problem would solve itself virtually overnight.

[Onelifetogive]

My late stepfather, bless his soul, warned early and often of the evil of out-of-town (-state, -country) conglomerates descending on our small Virginia town and putting his pharmacy...out of business.

This should qualify as "selfish greed"...right?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

My biggest problem with Wal-Mart is that the banana this guy talks about was probably made in China.

[Onelifetogive]

that foists its workers' family health-care costs on taxpayers...

This I was unaware of. Apparently, Wal-Mart sets the rules for Medicaid eligibility.....

</sarcasm*>