Why America is severely broken..

[one_voice]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. No kidding!

What do you have to say for yourself, Alice?

:eyes:

[The Magistrate]

2. Exactly, Ma'am: What Many Sneer At As 'Hand-Outs To Bums' Is Really Subsidy To Employers

Tax-payers pay the difference between a minimally decent wage and what the boss is willing to pay workers.

[Capitalocracy]

3. It's subsidized slavery.

Paying employees the basic cost of living is just at the level of slavery... maybe not the worst kind, but what I would call slavery nonetheless. Above that cost you start getting into actual fair employment.

[HereSince1628]

8. Walmart is the master of the US 'domesticated' labor force. n/t

[Hydra]

13. It's debatable which is worse

I abhor wage slavery because it pits the people who are enslaved against each other. At least when there are actual chains, most of the slaves know who the enemy really is.

[FSogol]

4. What's the story behind that photo? It looks like she's in a police line up.

Good statement, btw.

[Lindsay]

6. She was arrested for DUI

http://www.katv.com/story/15688273/alice-walton-arrested-for-dui-in-texas

[FSogol]

7. Pathetic.

"Media reports say Walton was also involved in a 1989 crash that resulted in the death of a 50-year-old woman. No charges were filed in that case."

[SoCalDem]

5. and all she did to get that money was to win the gene-pool lotto

The Walton wealth is a reason why so many smart legislators throughout our history wanted inheritances to be limited.

[raccoon]

9. Recd! nt

[FarCenter]

10. She's not the richest Walton

Christy Walton    $24.5 B
Jim Walton         21.1
Alice Walton       20.9
S Robson Walton    20.5
Ann Walton Kroenke  3.3
Stanley Kroenke     3.2

From Forbes 400 List

[hfojvt]

11. Walmart employs over 1 million people in the US

if she gave them just 50 cents an hour more that would cost her about a billion dollars. I doubt if her income is a billion a year. 50 cents an hour would not be much of a raise either.

I also cannot believe that 50% of her employees are eligible for food stamps. California puts eligivbility at 130% of the poverty level which would be $29,055 for the standard family of four or $14,157 for a single person. Well minimum wage would be $14,500 for a full time worker or $29,000 for a couple and walmart pays more than minimum.

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. See post 10, looks like there are four of them. 50 cents times four would be a noticeable raise...

[Scuba]

20. Fifty cents an hour is more than $1,000 / year. Why should I subsidize her business?

[Modern_Matthew]

21. The CEO makes $16,000 an hour. More than 2 or 3 employees like me makes in a year combined... nt

[moondust]

12. I'll bet she earned every penny of it!

Hard work and the sweat of her brow!

:sarcasm:

Why is ANYBODY a fucking billionaire anyway?

[sarcasmo]

14. GREED!

[WinkyDink]

15. I find the word "evil" befits both her and our system. EVIL and WICKED.

[Initech]

16. I'm becoming convinced greed is a disease the same way alcoholism or drug addiction is.

An addict is an addict is an addict - and these people are addicted to their money, no question.

[undergroundpanther]

17. ummm..

Greed is not a mental illness and it deserves no pity..It is EVIL.

Call it what it is.

[defendandprotect]

18. And sadly many who shop there are in turn also the impoverished ...

being kept poor by other elite employers/CEOs and by our Congress which has

been ignorning the problem of RE-regulation of capitalism/elites and the need

for stimulus -- beyond the paltry 20% of what was required two years ago being

doled out. We have elites making these decisions -- what kind of decisions do

we think they're going to make?


The bonds which kept capitalist/elites from super theft and super greed were

broken for them by the "two-party-duopoly" ---

going back as far as 1978 when Demcorats in full power - - presidency, Senate

and House collaborated with the Repugs to break the tax code for the rich.