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icymist

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16. Is our giant welfare queen upset?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 04:42 PM

Jan 2014

In other news; Walmart executives say that paying their employees, ahem, associates enough money to live on would hurt earning for the foreseeable future. Grumblings at the board meetings took place where whispers of maintaining six-figure incomes and incentive bonuses for creating the Walton family more wealth was heard. "Your job isn't to make employees, ah associates happy. Your job is to make Mr Walton more money." The CFO later went on to petition Congress for more corporate welfare if "Walmart needs to subsidize it's underpaid workforce."

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Walmart Warns: Food Stamp Cuts Hurt Our Profits [View all] Purveyor Jan 2014 OP

Uh oh, ellie Jan 2014 #1

OMG ...diminishing subsidies are hurting corporations. L0oniX Jan 2014 #2

Then maybe you ought to get off of your right-winged ass and start promoting the economy for the ladjf Jan 2014 #3

Hopefully the right will learn that piling all the wealth upaloopa Jan 2014 #4

How many times have we said here at DU gollygee Jan 2014 #5

oh GOD they might not make 20 billion this year!!! Rex Jan 2014 #6

Then for starters pay your people enough to live without them and we can spread the savings around. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2014 #7

They're reaping what they sow. TheMathieu Jan 2014 #8

Signal to the Republican party-politicians to give us serfs a few crumbs? diabeticman Jan 2014 #9

Well, as long as their profits are being cut ... Martin Eden Jan 2014 #10

This one of the companies ... 1000words Jan 2014 #11

Use some of that $100,000,000,000 in the bank dickthegrouch Jan 2014 #12

This is not just about food stamp cuts. All the recent cuts including food stamps combine to hurt jwirr Jan 2014 #13

oh dear Skittles Jan 2014 #14

Awww... TeeYiYi Jan 2014 #15

Is our giant welfare queen upset? icymist Jan 2014 #16

I would hope part of their problem leftynyc Jan 2014 #17

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