After Sales Plummet, Walmart Realizes It Can’t Run Stores On Temps Alone

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22. Let's be very clear about the lessons here

1) This part time monkey business happened 3 years before "Obamacare" ever existed in any formal form.

2) "Obamacare" is actually IMPROVING health care for Wal*Mart workers because Wal*Mart will have to provide this coverage after one month, rather than being able to jerk employees around forever.

3) The thing that is making the difference is the improving jobs market. When unemployment is 8%, asshole companies like Wal*Mart can get away with just about anything because people are so desperate fro work. 7% unemployment isn't great, but that 0.7% improvement in unemployment makes a HUGE difference. That has taken just enough ultra-desperate workers out of the market to force the Wal*Marts of the world to stop jacking them around (or reduce it, anyway.)

4) If we can get this down to 6%, everything changes. And the people behind the Republican Party understand this perfectly well. I am not talking about the morons and charlatans like Cruz and Paul. They are just comic stooges in the fine tradition of Bachmann, Palin, and Herman Cain. The real forces (Koch Brothers, Bush crime family, Adelman et al) are all about cheap labor.

5) THIS is exactly why Republicans have opposed every attempt by the Obama administration to recover and rebuild employment.