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Originally Posted by kane
I recently read that the average Walmart that employs 300 people will also cost the taxpayers between $900K and $1.7 million per year in public benefits.
The reason is that the wages are so low that the people working there also get food stamps, housing assistance, likely daycare assistance, medical coverage and maybe even cash.
To me that seems pretty crazy!
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I keep seeing people writing that on here too. And though I don't want to be anecdotal... Can ANYBODY name one person who is working a job at Walmart and is on welfare?
I don't know any. The people at the Walmart in South Carolina where I lived were mostly older ladies working the checkout. Yeah...they got "govt. assistance", because they were already on social security. A lot of them were widowed and got their dead husbands social security as well. And yep, they were older and were on Medicare as well.
Those stats are trying to make it sound like these people are 30 year old healthy, smart, vibrant people working these jobs and are so beat down by "the man" that they have to go on the govt. dole even though they are working their little hearts out.
And that is bullshit. They are skewing those stats. I dare anybody on here to go to Walmart and find a young person working who is on Welfare (and isn't the crippled guy greeting you at the front of the store).
They are taking all the old people (and the handicapped, because Walmart hires them more than any other company) and skewing those stats with the money those folks ALREADY would get from the govt. no matter where they work.
People need to start reading between the lines and seeing the agendas of the people who come up with such bullshit.
The people pushing that Walmart crap are the fucking unions who stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars if they can only get Walmart unionized.
It's misinformation put out to the people to try and bully Walmart.
I guess back in the "old days" the union would have simply had their mafia bosses send in "the boys" and make Walmart an offer they couldn't refuse.
Fucking crooks.