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Originally Posted by Robbie
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.
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The article I read mostly quoted a study that showed the almost all of the government help came in the form of various food assistance programs.
The people who work at Walmart make very little so those that have kids in school, their kids qualify for the free or reduced meal programs. In many states they offer free breakfast and lunch. The other costs came from earned income credits on taxes for low income people, medicaid health insurance for low income people, energy assistance, food stamps, section 8 and/or other housing assistance.
While some of this like housing assistance, food stamps and energy assistance can easily mean older people, the child care, child lunch and tax stuff is aimed at people with kids who are poor.
I have no idea what the breakdown is by age group, but the big costs were housing, child care and food assistance which means a good amount of this money is going to the non-elderly. I have no doubt in my mind that there are a decent number of people working at walmart for small wage, but they get enough government assistance that they live a reasonable life and have little motivation to work harder and move up the ladder.