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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
he's right. walmart should be forced to pay for healthcare for their employees. Not me!
ReplyDeleteIf Walmart didn't exist where would these employees be working? Certainly not at some local mom and pop store. They would be totally on welfare still being supported by the middle class.
ReplyDeleteStop voting Democrat is you want a better life.
ReplyDelete8:03, if Walmart would give their employees full time employment with benefits, it would take thousands of families off the welfare system. They have put most of the mom and pop shops out of business! Most of the employees are not customer friendly because they are working at a place where they are not fully appreciated. I shop there infrequently...would never buy fresh meats there. I also am careful to check prices on items as they are rung up because I have learned thru experience that the prices on the shelves are not always accurate because they will move items to fill up vacancies on shelves, so you think you are paying one price and it turns out to be something else. I have also witnessed a person walking out the door with unpaid items and no one seemed to care.
ReplyDeleteIf the employees can find better jobs elsewhere...go to it. No hard feelings.
ReplyDelete9:41.....spoken like someone who pays their employees $8 an hour and cut the 401(k), plan out, dropped health coverage, cut everyone's hours to 25 a week, and is angry that his employees hate him.
ReplyDelete8:03 is a brainwashed mimic of the ruling class. In case he hasn't notice, WalMart destroys all the "mom & pop' store withins 15 miles of their stores.
They too, are down to their last 100 billion. Life ain't easy when you make more money than some countries produce all year.
Start thinking for yourself instead of spouting nonsense that you heard from some other lemming.
Keep cheering.
My point was wmart hires more people than the mom and pops ever did and if the mom and pops were still here we would still have the welfare problem. Talk about brainwashed.
ReplyDeleteWalmart consolidates everything into one store with less employees than all the mom N pop stores would. We would and did have more stores with even more employees before Walmart. Like the utility companies..... Hold the monopoly.
DeleteMy point was that the Walton family could EASILY pay for health coverage AND pay a wage that would allow their workers to buy gas and food in the same week, but they won't. It make much better business sense to have SOMEONE ELSE (the taxpayers) to SUBSIDIZE their operations. And, of course, they come off with the same line most wealthy business owners, from the Walton's on down to the local level --- "we can't afford to do that". Yes they can.
ReplyDeleteBut when choosing between buying another house and a fifth Benz OR paying employees, well, the bottom line is "screw them, let them do what I did".
Problem is, most people don't have the connections, the education, the ambition, the money, or the ability to be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
That doesn't mean they get to be used and abused like cattle.
The safety net exists to help individuals who are truly in need, NOT to subsidize billionaires --- they have the tax code for THAT.
And thank your "representatives" for that. Now ask --- WHO are they representing??? Answer? The ones who can bribe them the most.
Keep cheering.
Why don't people know what stepping stone jobs are anymore? everyone seems to think of starter jobs as career opportunities.They are not.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not there are many people working for Wicomico County who make $8.25 and hour...
ReplyDeleteAnd some who don't even know that minimum wage went up.
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