Bernie: "Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America."

I have yet to witness a shortage of employees at any of the Walmarts I've visited. I've seen many loafing and not offering to help anyone find something. I'd say if they indeed had a problem finding and keeping employees, then that would cause them to pay more. Apparently they can find and retain all they need under their current pay plan.
 
I have yet to witness a shortage of employees at any of the Walmarts I've visited. I've seen many loafing and not offering to help anyone find something. I'd say if they indeed had a problem finding and keeping employees, then that would cause them to pay more. Apparently they can find and retain all they need under their current pay plan.

Walmart isn't he only major US employer to raise wages (list below) without gov't meddling.

Just months after giving raises to half a million US workers, Walmart's profits (and stock value) have taken a major hit. The company raised its minimum starting wage to $9.00 an hour in April and plans to raise it to $10 in 2016.

Major employers who have raised their min wage well beyond the federal mandate:
Aetna. McD's, Walmart, TJ Maxx, Target, Starbucks, Ikea, Costco, Gap and many others.
 
Where we subsidize walmarts employees. They get paid so little that they collect welfare while the Waltons make billions. The Waltons are creating government dependence.

We don't subsidize Walmart employees, you are lying through your teeth. Leftists lie as a matter of course, not a shred of integrity in any of you.

We can test this easily enough, take an unskilled Walmart clerk with seite ninos who is drawing SNAP and fire them. Did they stop getting SNAP?

IF it we a subsidy to Walmart employees, it would end. BUT you're lying as we all know, it's just welfare and SNAP increased when the income dropped.

How do you correctly spell democrat? "lying fuck."
 
That is the kind silliness that illustrates just how stupid loony leftists truly are.

99% of American workers do not work for Walmart, rendering your lack-of-options claim groundless. Thankfully, there are enough low skill/low wage jobs in our economy to satisfy the demand for them by the people who have such skills. Without those low skill/low wage jobs those people would be in a world of hurt (not that you seem to care).

Yes but add up all the similar paying jobs and it is a high percent.

Silliness of you pretend conservatives is that you promote government dependence and then claim to be small government. What a joke.

Yes, there are a lot more unskilled and low-skilled jobs in the nation than there are highly-skilled jobs. This would correspond to the fact that there are a lot more unskilled PEOPLE.

Also, unskilled labor tends to be more physically-oriented, thus requiring more warm bodies to be thrown at accomplishing it.

Duh.

So if we have a large percent of people who are dependent on welfare we will never have smaller government. Decreasing government is dependent on people not needing government. What you support only growns government comrade.

No, what YOU support only grows government. What else could it do when you want government price controls meddling in the private sector, setting the price of labor arbitrarily above its value?

And this whole "We created welfare, and now it's YOUR FAULT that people use it!" song-and-dance is obscene.

I'm not sure you could be more wrong. People supporting themselves without welfare does not grow government. Sorry.

There's no "supporting themselves without welfare" to government intervention into the marketplace. It's just replacing one type of welfare with another.

And there's no amount of word-twisting that's going to make your "government should control everything" riff noble. Leftists really need to break their addiction to redefinition and spin.
 
Where we subsidize walmarts employees. They get paid so little that they collect welfare while the Waltons make billions. The Waltons are creating government dependence.

We don't subsidize Walmart employees, you are lying through your teeth. Leftists lie as a matter of course, not a shred of integrity in any of you.

We can test this easily enough, take an unskilled Walmart clerk with seite ninos who is drawing SNAP and fire them. Did they stop getting SNAP?

IF it we a subsidy to Walmart employees, it would end. BUT you're lying as we all know, it's just welfare and SNAP increased when the income dropped.

How do you correctly spell democrat? "lying fuck."

You are correct. The non-spin reality is that the American taxpayer subsidizes underachievers. Whether or not some of them have begun to work their way back to being productive and self-sufficient by finding an entry-level job is irrelevant to this. The employer who gives them an opportunity to work their way off of welfare should be congratulated for giving them a hand up, not punished for not being an immediate jump to prosperity.
 
Where we subsidize walmarts employees. They get paid so little that they collect welfare while the Waltons make billions. The Waltons are creating government dependence.

We don't subsidize Walmart employees, you are lying through your teeth. Leftists lie as a matter of course, not a shred of integrity in any of you.

We can test this easily enough, take an unskilled Walmart clerk with seite ninos who is drawing SNAP and fire them. Did they stop getting SNAP?

IF it we a subsidy to Walmart employees, it would end. BUT you're lying as we all know, it's just welfare and SNAP increased when the income dropped.

How do you correctly spell democrat? "lying fuck."

Walmart is using their labor to make billions. Tax dollars are being used to provide for these workers. Walmart should be providing for their workers. It is corporate welfare.
 
Yes but add up all the similar paying jobs and it is a high percent.

Silliness of you pretend conservatives is that you promote government dependence and then claim to be small government. What a joke.

Yes, there are a lot more unskilled and low-skilled jobs in the nation than there are highly-skilled jobs. This would correspond to the fact that there are a lot more unskilled PEOPLE.

Also, unskilled labor tends to be more physically-oriented, thus requiring more warm bodies to be thrown at accomplishing it.

Duh.

So if we have a large percent of people who are dependent on welfare we will never have smaller government. Decreasing government is dependent on people not needing government. What you support only growns government comrade.

No, what YOU support only grows government. What else could it do when you want government price controls meddling in the private sector, setting the price of labor arbitrarily above its value?

And this whole "We created welfare, and now it's YOUR FAULT that people use it!" song-and-dance is obscene.

I'm not sure you could be more wrong. People supporting themselves without welfare does not grow government. Sorry.

There's no "supporting themselves without welfare" to government intervention into the marketplace. It's just replacing one type of welfare with another.

And there's no amount of word-twisting that's going to make your "government should control everything" riff noble. Leftists really need to break their addiction to redefinition and spin.

There is nothing leftist about wanting to lower government dependence. You "conservatives" are just so in love with the mega rich that you are blinded to that fact.
 
Where we subsidize walmarts employees. They get paid so little that they collect welfare while the Waltons make billions. The Waltons are creating government dependence.

We don't subsidize Walmart employees, you are lying through your teeth. Leftists lie as a matter of course, not a shred of integrity in any of you.

We can test this easily enough, take an unskilled Walmart clerk with seite ninos who is drawing SNAP and fire them. Did they stop getting SNAP?

IF it we a subsidy to Walmart employees, it would end. BUT you're lying as we all know, it's just welfare and SNAP increased when the income dropped.

How do you correctly spell democrat? "lying fuck."

You are correct. The non-spin reality is that the American taxpayer subsidizes underachievers. Whether or not some of them have begun to work their way back to being productive and self-sufficient by finding an entry-level job is irrelevant to this. The employer who gives them an opportunity to work their way off of welfare should be congratulated for giving them a hand up, not punished for not being an immediate jump to prosperity.

Congratulate the Waltons for making billions while collecting corporate welfare, now that is golden.
 
Congratulate the Waltons for making billions while collecting corporate welfare, now that is golden.

What's funny is, they can't even do that efficiently. Companies like Apple manage to pay their employees well, reap billions, and pay no taxes at all, and the Righties don't even notice.

Compared to Apple, the Waltons are a bunch of amateurs.
 
Where we subsidize walmarts employees. They get paid so little that they collect welfare while the Waltons make billions. The Waltons are creating government dependence.

We don't subsidize Walmart employees, you are lying through your teeth. Leftists lie as a matter of course, not a shred of integrity in any of you.

We can test this easily enough, take an unskilled Walmart clerk with seite ninos who is drawing SNAP and fire them. Did they stop getting SNAP?

IF it we a subsidy to Walmart employees, it would end. BUT you're lying as we all know, it's just welfare and SNAP increased when the income dropped.

How do you correctly spell democrat? "lying fuck."

Walmart is using their labor to make billions. Tax dollars are being used to provide for these workers. Walmart should be providing for their workers. It is corporate welfare.

Try to understand this. THE WORKERS should provide for the workers. WalMart is not their parents. All WalMart should be providing is fair market value, according to the economy of the specific area, for their labor. If they need more money, that's THEIR problem, not WalMart's.

I would love to make more money. It would make caring for my family much easier. But that is not my employer's problem. I'm almost 47 years old. These are MY children. The fact that I chose to have them does not make the job that I do worth any more money than it is if a single college student with no children is doing it.
 
Congratulate the Waltons for making billions while collecting corporate welfare, now that is golden.

What's funny is, they can't even do that efficiently. Companies like Apple manage to pay their employees well, reap billions, and pay no taxes at all, and the Righties don't even notice.

Compared to Apple, the Waltons are a bunch of amateurs.

Yes, because the people employed by Apple are TOTALLY comparable to the people employed by WalMart.

Dumbass.
 
Walmart is using their labor to make billions. Tax dollars are being used to provide for these workers. Walmart should be providing for their workers. It is corporate welfare.

Walmart pays them to do a job, IF anyone does not want to do the job for what Walmart offers, they are free to sell their time elsewhere.
 
What's funny is, they can't even do that efficiently. Companies like Apple manage to pay their employees well, reap billions, and pay no taxes at all, and the Righties don't even notice.

Compared to Apple, the Waltons are a bunch of amateurs.

Yeah, Evilcorp (Apple) pays so well that their employees would rather jump to their death than work for them.

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Someday a leftist will tell the truth.

Someday the sun will supernova.

The question is which one will occur first?
 
Congratulate the Waltons for making billions while collecting corporate welfare, now that is golden.

They don't collect corporate welfare. You are lying.

Yes they are. The government is providing for their employees. My tax dollars subsidize the Waltons who make billions.

No, the government is handing checks to its constituents. Your tax dollars subsidize individuals who don't adequately take care of themselves.
 
Yes, because the people employed by Apple are TOTALLY comparable to the people employed by WalMart.

Dumbass.

Evilcorp treats workers like shit.

{
Workers in Chinese factories making Apple products continue to be poorly treated, with exhausted employees falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts, the BBC has said after an undercover investigation.

Reporters who took jobs at the Pegatron factories found workers regularly exceeded 60 hours a week – contravening the company’s guidance – and that standards on ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were also breached.

The broadcaster said promises made by Apple to protect workers in the wake of a spate of suicides at supplier Foxconn in 2010 were “routinely broken”.}

Apple under fire again for working conditions at Chinese factories

That leftists love Evilcorp just shows what fucking hypocrites they are.
 
When Walmart is the countries largest employer and wages are stagnant there really arent many options. As long as Walmart and other corps continue to create more government dependence the gov will continue to grow. That is obviously what you want comrade.

That is the kind silliness that illustrates just how stupid loony leftists truly are.

99% of American workers do not work for Walmart, rendering your lack-of-options claim groundless. Thankfully, there are enough low skill/low wage jobs in our economy to satisfy the demand for them by the people who have such skills. Without those low skill/low wage jobs those people would be in a world of hurt (not that you seem to care).

Yes but add up all the similar paying jobs and it is a high percent.

Silliness of you pretend conservatives is that you promote government dependence and then claim to be small government. What a joke.

Yes, there are a lot more unskilled and low-skilled jobs in the nation than there are highly-skilled jobs. This would correspond to the fact that there are a lot more unskilled PEOPLE.

Also, unskilled labor tends to be more physically-oriented, thus requiring more warm bodies to be thrown at accomplishing it.

Duh.

So if we have a large percent of people who are dependent on welfare we will never have smaller government. Decreasing government is dependent on people not needing government. What you support only growns government comrade.

No, what YOU support only grows government. What else could it do when you want government price controls meddling in the private sector, setting the price of labor arbitrarily above its value?

And this whole "We created welfare, and now it's YOUR FAULT that people use it!" song-and-dance is obscene.

It is most definitely the fault of Conservatives that 47% of Americans don't pay income tax. It was the Conservatives who voted George Bush's plan to increase earned income credits and hold down the minimum wage. It's been Conservatives who have consistently voted against increasing the minimum wage.

Had minimum wages kept pace with inflation, we wouldn't be having this discussion, millions of people would not be receiving SNAP benefits or Medicaid funding.

Had Walmart and other highly profitable low wage corporations paid reasonable wages, a lot fewer jobs may have been lost in the crash.

The poor are cleaned out. Now they're taking out the Middle Class. All wealth to the top.
 

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