The Walton family (Walmart owners) is richer than the bottom 42% of Americans combined

[Penicilino]

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2013/dec/08/one-wisconsin-now/just-how-wealthy-wal-mart-walton-family/

[stevenleser]

1. Which I wouldn't mind so much if everyone had a living wage. Without that, this is sick. nt

[ladjf]

2. ... and still working vigorously toward increasing their wealth. nt

[JaneyVee]

3. And taxpayers subsidize their profits.

[Vox Moi]

4. Well, that 42% had better ask the Waltons for a raise.

The amazing thing about in the trickle-down myth is that the only people who believe it are those who are at the bottom … and get nothing.
Rich people don't create jobs …. they define, control and dispense jobs.
The demand for goods and services is always there. The need for washing machines and education and roads and health care …
By concentrating the wealth in the hands of a few it changes the nature of the goods and services being demanded: service people, yachts, extravagant homes.
To concentrate wealth to a few is also to concentrate the economy in service of the wealthy.

[CKS]

5. If it upsets you then stop shopping at Walmart.

Congrats to them for making a business that we complain about yet support every day

[catbyte]

7. A bagger-like comment like that doesn't really fly here, dear.

[LongTomH]

8. I wouldn't shop at Wal-Mart at gunpoint!

[Coyotl]

11. I doubt if anyone on DU shops at Wal*Mart.

[EOTE]

14. So what, are you suggesting that we should shut up about Walmart's awful practices?

Congrats to Walmart for what, exactly? Making many billions of dollars by selling cheap crap and exploiting workers? Really? Congrats?

[Incitatus]

15. They didn't make anything.

They inherited it and most of us here do not support them.

[JCMach1]

6. Selling cheap Chinese goods at 500% markup while paying

minimum wage and union bashing pays well

[mathematic]

9. And everybody @ DU is richer than the bottom 25% combined

That's the estimate for households with 0 or less net worth. (Technically, everybody is richer than the bottom 25% combined, even somebody in the bottom 25%).

The point here is that the 42% has less to do with the Walton's wealth than it does with the bottom 25%'s lack of wealth.

[Coyotl]

10. BOYCOTT Wal*Mart! Support your local unions!

[LiberalEsto]

16. Been doing that for years. MallWart is a nightmare. nt

[reformist2]

12. We used to have kings, who thought they had a right to rule...

In the future, our ancestors will look back at the age of billionaires the same exact way.

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Goody gum drops! Let's turn our public schools over to 'em, then.

You won't hear any objections from the Obama administration. They LIIIIIIIIKE.

http://walmart1percent.org/issues/education/