Wal-Mart will be adding 22,000 jobs and opening 150 new stores this year. Finally, some good news in this gloom and doom economy.
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quote:Originally posted by Ron P.:
Those bastards!
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
Saltines can be pretty tasty, as well as filling...if you're starving. I can remember when I would have been glad to have a cracker to eat.
A job at Wal-Mart is head over heels better than begging, or going on welfare.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
Saltines can be pretty tasty, as well as filling...if you're starving. I can remember when I would have been glad to have a cracker to eat.
A job at Wal-Mart is head over heels better than begging, or going on welfare.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
Saltines can be pretty tasty, as well as filling...if you're starving. I can remember when I would have been glad to have a cracker to eat.
A job at Wal-Mart is head over heels better than begging, or going on welfare.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
Saltines can be pretty tasty, as well as filling...if you're starving. I can remember when I would have been glad to have a cracker to eat.
quote:Originally posted by jmbo35660:
Wal-Mart will be adding 22,000 jobs and opening 150 new stores this year. Finally, some good news in this gloom and doom economy.
quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:
This is what Wal-Mart likes to do. As more people hit the poverty level, Wal-Mart thrives. I shouldn't even bother mentioning it because most of you don't care, but they do abuse poor Chinese workers. As long as you can get your widget a little cheaper it is ok, right?
quote:Getting a job at wal-mart is like giving a starving person a saltine. I can't wait until the government takes over Wal-Mart. When that day comes, I'll start shopping there again.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:
This is what Wal-Mart likes to do. As more people hit the poverty level, Wal-Mart thrives. I shouldn't even bother mentioning it because most of you don't care, but they do abuse poor Chinese workers. As long as you can get your widget a little cheaper it is ok, right?
So you'd take the side of the Chinese over a hard working, family supporting American who just wants to earn his paycheck?
The Chinese who manufacture goods for Wal-Mart do so in factories approved by their government, at wages comparable to the ones earned at similar jobs in their country.
As long as the American worker is unemployed, you are good with that. That way, the US government can become big and bloated, and provide for us all.
quote:Originally posted by interventor1:
No nation, on this planet, has a systems that guarantees their citizens a job with a decent wage.
Typical brainless zombie.
quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:
This is what Wal-Mart likes to do. As more people hit the poverty level, Wal-Mart thrives. I shouldn't even bother mentioning it because most of you don't care, but they do abuse poor Chinese workers. As long as you can get your widget a little cheaper it is ok, right?
So you'd take the side of the Chinese over a hard working, family supporting American who just wants to earn his paycheck?
The Chinese who manufacture goods for Wal-Mart do so in factories approved by their government, at wages comparable to the ones earned at similar jobs in their country.
As long as the American worker is unemployed, you are good with that. That way, the US government can become big and bloated, and provide for us all.
You just totally missed the point of my post. I'm the anti Wal-Mart guy here. I'm against unfair trade. If I made our economic policy, every American would have a job with a decent wage. It is the right wingers that want to keep so many Americans in poverty.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
Your post had no recognizable point. You're only anti Wal-Mart if it suits your socialist agenda...making every US citizen dependant on the government for jobs and sustenance.
Which part of the Constitution requires that the Government make sure jobs are available? As both an employee and employer, I don't want the goverment having anything to do with deciding what a "decent wage" is. I want to be paid according to what I'm worth...not some scale set by a fat cat politician who's never done a honest days work in his life.
And how is two entities agreeing in a business venture, with both being satisfied with the outcome, unfair trade?
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
A job at Wal-Mart is head over heels better than begging, or going on welfare.
quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
Your post had no recognizable point. You're only anti Wal-Mart if it suits your socialist agenda...making every US citizen dependant on the government for jobs and sustenance.
Which part of the Constitution requires that the Government make sure jobs are available? As both an employee and employer, I don't want the goverment having anything to do with deciding what a "decent wage" is. I want to be paid according to what I'm worth...not some scale set by a fat cat politician who's never done a honest days work in his life.
And how is two entities agreeing in a business venture, with both being satisfied with the outcome, unfair trade?
Fine, work for beans if you want. I, however, want to make good money and not have less than 1% of our population controlling over 50% of our nation's wealth. We should spread the wealth.
It is unfair when we trade with countries that don't have comparable labor and wage laws to us.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
You can spread the wealth when you earn it. Otherwise, you're a thief, stealing from those who have earned it, to give it to others who haven't earned it.
quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
You can spread the wealth when you earn it. Otherwise, you're a thief, stealing from those who have earned it, to give it to others who haven't earned it.
Ignore the facts if you wish. The gap between CEO and hourly worker pay has been getting wider and wider.
quote:Originally posted by _Joy_:
Wow, they don't have insurance benefits. Waaah, join the club. It's a paycheck and adding jobs is GREAT news.
A job at Wal-Mart or any other retail job DOES require intelligence, btw. If you want to really suck at your job, perhaps you don't need any, but otherwise it's a necessity.
quote:Originally posted by ryokurin:quote:Originally posted by _Joy_:
Wow, they don't have insurance benefits. Waaah, join the club. It's a paycheck and adding jobs is GREAT news.
A job at Wal-Mart or any other retail job DOES require intelligence, btw. If you want to really suck at your job, perhaps you don't need any, but otherwise it's a necessity.
The point was that they'll still need government assistance. You can't in one instance say that any job will get people off of welfare, and then say it doesn't matter if they don't get benefits in another. Just as long as you are doing ok and Wal-mart drops the price of the things you like ever year right?
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:quote:Originally posted by ryokurin:quote:Originally posted by _Joy_:
Wow, they don't have insurance benefits. Waaah, join the club. It's a paycheck and adding jobs is GREAT news.
A job at Wal-Mart or any other retail job DOES require intelligence, btw. If you want to really suck at your job, perhaps you don't need any, but otherwise it's a necessity.
The point was that they'll still need government assistance. You can't in one instance say that any job will get people off of welfare, and then say it doesn't matter if they don't get benefits in another. Just as long as you are doing ok and Wal-mart drops the price of the things you like ever year right?
I survived for more than one year on minimum wage without any government assistance.
Was it hard? Yep. Did it make me a better person? I think so.
People can survive, and even prosper, without government assistance. I'm grateful that some forms of welfare are there as safety nets for those who need them...but they were never meant to be a hammock.
quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:
Provide jobs and a decent wage and I'll not gripe about taking away welfare.
quote:Originally posted by ryokurin:quote:Originally posted by _Joy_:
Wow, they don't have insurance benefits. Waaah, join the club. It's a paycheck and adding jobs is GREAT news.
A job at Wal-Mart or any other retail job DOES require intelligence, btw. If you want to really suck at your job, perhaps you don't need any, but otherwise it's a necessity.
The point was that they'll still need government assistance. You can't in one instance say that any job will get people off of welfare, and then say it doesn't matter if they don't get benefits in another. Just as long as you are doing ok and Wal-mart drops the price of the things you like ever year right?
quote:Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:quote:Originally posted by ryokurin:quote:Originally posted by _Joy_:
Wow, they don't have insurance benefits. Waaah, join the club. It's a paycheck and adding jobs is GREAT news.
A job at Wal-Mart or any other retail job DOES require intelligence, btw. If you want to really suck at your job, perhaps you don't need any, but otherwise it's a necessity.
The point was that they'll still need government assistance. You can't in one instance say that any job will get people off of welfare, and then say it doesn't matter if they don't get benefits in another. Just as long as you are doing ok and Wal-mart drops the price of the things you like ever year right?
I survived for more than one year on minimum wage without any government assistance.
Was it hard? Yep. Did it make me a better person? I think so.
People can survive, and even prosper, without government assistance. I'm grateful that some forms of welfare are there as safety nets for those who need them...but they were never meant to be a hammock.
Provide jobs and a decent wage and I'll not gripe about taking away welfare.