Well; now I have seen everything. The CEO of Wal-Mart has a meeting with prominent Governors and tells them how it is going to be; claiming there is'Too Much Politics", regarding the health care issue. And when the Governors ask why Wal-Mart is shifting a large part of their workers to part time status in order to shift more of their health care needs onto the taxpayers he tells them; "We Must Compete." So all you taxpayers rejoice because we get to fund Wal-Marts shorfall in benefits in order to keep those 6$ an hour jobs in our communities. 6$ an hour means they don't even pay taxes after computing their yearly wage. And we pay for their health care. It takes two years for a part-timer to begin coverage at the Wal-Mart and that doesn't even cover their children. Keep shopping there all the delicate geniuses; then for the twelve cents you save on towels you can pay 2800$ for one of their employees to visit the local emergency room because they can't afford a doctor visit for their kids and Wal-Mart doen't offer health benefits along with their slave wages.
I could link it but if you have Google it is the first article in the business section of the Google news feed. I know the Mart is an easy target; like shooting turkeys in a barrell; but to me it signifies everything that must be addressed in our culture. The negative greed; by that I mean the greed that serves no purpose but to enrich a very small number of people at the expense of all of us. The lack of accountability where a company is granted rights to abuse the public/taxpayer/worker, while providing nothing of substance for the community. The concept that any large corporation should have rights that in the past were only granted to kings or dictators. The concept that replacing good honest hard-working businesses with some large polluting abusing no-wage box store that as soon as the structure gets too old to function they abandone it to the rest of us to clean up their mess. You get the picture.
Arrogant SOB. Basically said it's your problem, and there has to be national solution. IOW, we're not paying.
They're building a new super in my town. The old location is a ghost town, where there were 4 or 5 businesses. It will set empy and idle for years just as they do everywhere else.
Let's see, Costco pays it's employees well, provides benefits, and is kicking Sam's Club ass across the country. It can be done. Compete and have compassion.
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