a Walmart in Northeast Ohio held a food
drive for its underpaid employees
so they would have something tasty to
eat during the Thanksgiving holiday
now keep in mind that the majority the
vast majority of all time Walmart
employees make twenty five thousand
dollars a year
these all borough time Walmart employees
full-time
okay not part-time and that is not
enough to
be above the poverty level it's to be
fair to be fairly have barely above a
few
family of poor mother yes so if you're a
family of four
and you I have a household income up
twenty five thousand dollars
you're just barely above the poverty
level now as a result
the government has to subsidize these
employees through
governmental programs and social
services like welfare
or the SNAP program which is the food
stamp program and it's been up to fairly
disastrous for our economy when you
consider that
483 hundred-person superstore Super
Center for wal-mart
update the government pays about 904
2,542 to 1.7 million
each year so that's our taxpayer money
no
your problems you should be livid about
that ride wire is our taxpayer money
gonna
subsidize accompanying me this crony
capitalism right
what a big an unfair advantage to lead
an unfair advantage over your small
business
where we might happen to be in the
country now that a ride is it
of course says Walmart gives a
tremendous amount a political donations
might is right an always-on all our
problems love Walmart
now to be fair so the clintons a lot of
politicians coming out are gone so the
Republicans or Democrats
Blanche Lincoln was a democrat of
arkansas
couldn't get far up enough wal-mart's
you know what
a luck wishes on congress anymore but
what difference does it make anybody
else who come to all my absolutely just
give me the money
and I'll follow back you look at the
store looking outrageous it is
they've got a new their asking people to
donate food for their
own underpaid employees that's
essentially saying
hey look we know we're not paying them a
living wage we know that the majority of
them are living in poverty
but who cares about that we're gonna ask
you to not only spend your tax dollars
a governmental programs to help them out
we're all gonna ask you to feed them
during the holidays
which is ridiculous especially
considering the fact that Walmart is
well the largest employers in the
country and what are the most profitable
okay and I a when are we gonna have some
common sense regulation this country
that has these corporations paying their
employees a living wage
it's insane now and E waller's on a
small country like I will you know there
are tough times work they do
in for a little while ago to pay low
salaries and then they're trying to help
out by doing this charity for for their
own employees dunno
they make billions upon billions of
dollars every single year
in fact the six walks in here's most
amazing fact there is
have more wealth than the bottom forty
percent of the country
they're not hurting for money so could
they pay their water
workers just a little bit more so you
don't have to share drive Shalam
so they can actually buy their own food
and so they don't have to rely on tax
rules of course they can
and they just make I don't know where
they make a billion dollars last
out of the 10 the billions they make in
property year
I'm Iwate but no Totoro stock market
is all controlling you the market price
must go up every year
so G gotta squeeze more and more money
lol workers
and so they rely on the charity O others
and and the american taxpayers so that
wal-mart could continue to pay
obscene profits so let me jump in with
some proposed solutions one proposed
solution which I think obviously make
sense
if having the federal minimum wage
increased okay to a living wage
alright so to keep up with the inflation
and all that but another proposed
a solution to it is the earned income
tax credit right
which i think is the dumbest idea ever
because they basically have the american
taxpayers
up make up for the difference in what
the the Walmart refuses to pay employed
now it would be in the form of a tax
refund or tax credit when they actually
do their taxes
but they're not is it basically forcing
them to go up by
unaccounted do their taxes to ensure
that they'll get that money back in one
lump sum
which is not going to help a lot of
people the best way to do it is to make
sure that they have
a steady indecent incomes they can feed
their family
near not to rely on governmental
programs if you are a full time worker
in this country you should be living in
poverty it's not broken simple
yeah a lot of these workers by the way I
am I've been there for a long long time
to this whole idea I don't worry at
least you can work your way up
not really I mean you know some small
percentage cameras you know we did the
store and fast food
a chains and it turns out that they
don't promote from within the just hire
executives from
other companies executives in so a tiny
percentage get moved up and
the overwhelming majority stay at
minimum wage
or a little better poverty wages or tiny
bit better
and I just wanna close this a story by
reading you a comment
from the spokesperson for wal-mart he
says this is part of the company's
culture to rally around associates and
take care of them
when they face extreme hardships
well I love that quote because they're
totally acknowledging that they treat
their employees
poorly yet who gave them the extreme
hardship
new did pent up paying them so if you
shared in your
enormous profits with your employer is a
little bit that they wouldn't be an
extreme hardship
