A Different View of Wal-Mart
According to this Pew poll, a lot of Americans seem to like Wal-Mart just fine.
Any comment, John Zogby?
Any comment, John Zogby?
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:04 PM
Thursday, December 15, 2005
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8 Comments:
Facile.
Still wondering why you never address the issues of the working poor, of the increasing difficulties they face while their employers "opt out" of providing health coverage and other benefits, their government opts out of assisting them via Medicaid and food stamps, and you and others opt out of heeding the voice in your head that says, 'This is wrong.'
Why do you avoid the central issue, Carol, while busily flitting around its edges, tapping away with that tiny chisel of yours?
I'm as everday american as it gets and Walmart generally has everything I need in one stop, a guy bonus. For special needs we get to go to our toy stores and drool for a while while getting what we need to finish that chore list. The campaign against Walmart is a union driven effort and noting more than that.
Not sure if convenience makes everything OK. The institution of slavery used to be a one-stop shop for employers too.
All hail the plutocracy! Let us bow and kiss the hands of the magnanimous Waltons without whom our economy would collapse.
duke-stir:
Do you believe the "working poor" have any responsibility whatsoever for themselves?
Do you think the answer to everything is government mandatated and/or paid for benefits?
That's not the American dream, that's the communist/socialist fantasy!
Of course the working poor have responsibilities for their own well-being.
Tell me, Greg, how you would meet all of your responsibilities with the $10,700 (gross) you got paid for a full year at full-time. Sure, the cost of living is less in the heartland where the minimum wage is more prevalent. But gas, transportation, and healthcare cost pretty much the same everywhere.
Again, the Republican Congress continues to refuse to increase the minimum wage in their usual deference to corporations (more sacred than any cow in India). "We can't hurt businesses! They can't afford it! People will lose their jobs!" Blah, blah, blah. None of that ever comes to fruition, of course.
So what does the single mother do? Huh? Do you care? I'm sure it's all her fault for being uneducated or for having kids. Let's just ignore it; it'll go away.
Oh, and here you go Walton family, here's that tax cut we promised.
Shouldn't you have been born in Nazi Germany? Then you could haul all of the non-productive riff-raff off to be gased or deported.
I know in your perfect world everyone is able to swim, and if they can't then they should sink and drown and be off your hands. Out of sight, out of mind.
And as for my view, you can call it socialism if you like (that's the way you pinheads like to frame things, in the most extreme terms possible), but it beats the 90/10 rule, like in Mexico, where 10% of the population has 90% of the wealth, and vice versa. That's where we're inexorably headed with the greedy plutocracy Uncle Toms like you are slavingly devoted to defending.
"Actually, you are in the extreme, wanting to keep the poor on welfare without a hope of rising above. Maybe you one of the warfare poor?"
(First of all, what is the "warfare poor"? How Freudian.)
I have said nothing about keeping the poor on welfare, Pete. That's your selective hearing kicking in. What I am talking about -- and have been talking about -- is EITHER government enforcing a LIVING wage OR stepping up to help fill the gap between their income and the basic things that we all need.
Again, you and others continue to skirt the issue (and call names, like "socialist") while ignoring the not-so-rhetorical question of how you would manage to pay for transportation, housing, utilities, clothing, food -- CHRISTMAS GIFTS? Are those allowed for the poor? -- with $5.15 and hour?
But you don't care. Just as I predicted, it's the single mother's problem for not saying 'No' to the father whose birthright it is to put it wherever he wants and then walk away. Very telling.
Oh, and thanks for the geography lesson and the intellectually lazy avoidance of my point that the gap between the richest and poorest Americans is growing exponentially.
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