Walmart Truth revealed

[duane1969]

No, it really doesn't. I didn't say anything about raising minimum wage. My point is that this doesn't make WalMart any better or worse. So tell me again how WalMart is so great for offering benefits only some can afford instead of paying everyone a living wage and letting people decide how to spend their money.

The part that baffles me is this is all there for you guys to read, so I don't understand why you would deliberately give my words new meani...
You guys are Republicans, aren't you?

But your idea of how it should work, won't work. There is no such thing as "pay employees more and let them decide how to spend it". The ACA mandates that they have health insurance, so the option of deciding how to spend it has already been taken away. They are required, under penalty of tax refund relinquishment, to have health care (really smart idea there...they don't have health care, so let's take their money!). If WalMart paying them more and then charging them more for their health care will somehow benefit them I can't see how. The overall cost of living will go up, their eligibility for public benefits will go down due to their increased income and they will have to pay more for the health care that they get through WalMart.

Walmart is a large employer here, everyone i know that works there r worked there absolutely hates it because of how they are treated.

then again every time i go into Walmart i end up being frustrated because of the behavior of the employees and nonsense of people who shop there.....every time i go there i end up seeing someone on bath salts or at least a couple crackheads being crazy. minimum wage here is 7.25.....i remember 5.25 a while back when i first entered the workforce in 2006....but inflation of prices always occurs when minimum wage increases.
i hate Walmart and avoid it at almost all costs, id rather shop at my Walgreens and get my 15-20% discount lol

I worked for WalMart and I loved it. The only reason I left was because I wanted to move back into a management role and there were no management options for me locally, so I took a management job with a different company.

Sounds to me like you have a really crappy WalMart. Our local store has some people that have been working there 10+ years.

[WilyWestbrook0]

You're right. Time to glory in my massively well-paid $8.15 an hour job and have six kids! Woo-hoo!

Nah, I'll just keep being responsible and low-maintenance despite making slightly above minimum wage ($7.25 here in MO, last I checked).

And yes, I have two autoimmune diseases. Medical used to be hard to pay. Believe it or not, I am not against everything in Obamacare despite being more conservative-leaning in general. The part about pre-existing conditions and less to pay for those of us who make monstrously large amounts of $8.15 an hour (read: that is not that large of a salary, actually) is helpful for me. I just don't see why everyone has to be forced to buy insurance.

But that's just my opinion. You guys are older, white liberal men and thus have all the answers and the bigger brains. Carry on, because your opinions are the only ones that matter, not those of 29 year old women who forgot to have a ton of children and a slightly lower paying job in order to be respected. Or a degree in physics or something. One extreme or the other with you guys to get any respect, I've learned.

Btw: I and the other pathetic women at my job help support three young men who otherwise would be in prison were it not for our profession.

Not that any of that matters to you. Women need to have kids of their own to be respected, by golly!

[Wickabee]

So the ACA mandates the health care and I'm supposed to praise Walmart as anything more than "law abiding" because they did what they were supposed to?

Such heroes!

Or is there an actual point to this thread?

Duane, you have no idea how I want things to work. A typical liberal as described by a conservative you have down pat, but not me.

[habsheaven]

You're right. Time to glory in my massively well-paid $8.15 an hour job and have six kids! Woo-hoo!

Nah, I'll just keep being responsible and low-maintenance despite making slightly above minimum wage ($7.25 here in MO, last I checked).

And yes, I have two autoimmune diseases. Medical used to be hard to pay. Believe it or not, I am not against everything in Obamacare despite being more conservative-leaning in general. The part about pre-existing conditions and less to pay for those of us who make monstrously large amounts of $8.15 an hour (read: that is not that large of a salary, actually) is helpful for me. I just don't see why everyone has to be forced to buy insurance.

But that's just my opinion. You guys are older, white liberal men and thus have all the answers and the bigger brains. Carry on, because your opinions are the only ones that matter, not those of 29 year old women who forgot to have a ton of children and a slightly lower paying job in order to be respected. Or a degree in physics or something. One extreme or the other with you guys to get any respect, I've learned.

Btw: I and the other pathetic women at my job help support three young men who otherwise would be in prison were it not for our profession.

Not that any of that matters to you. Women need to have kids of their own to be respected, by golly!

For someone that is such a great wordsmith you sure do not know how to reply to a simple post. No one called you massively well-paid or pathetic. Those are labels you chose thinking it somehow diminishes my point. Carry on with your egotistical opinion of yourself.

[GroundSupport]

For someone that is such a great wordsmith you sure do not know how to reply to a simple post. No one called you massively well-paid or pathetic. Those are labels you chose thinking it somehow diminishes my point. Carry on with your egotistical opinion of yourself.

What an insulting post.

[habsheaven]

What an insulting post.

It's no more insulting than her retort to me. Thanks for contributing though.

[gsj68]

You're right. Time to glory in my massively well-paid $8.15 an hour job and have six kids! Woo-hoo!

Nah, I'll just keep being responsible and low-maintenance despite making slightly above minimum wage ($7.25 here in MO, last I checked).

And yes, I have two autoimmune diseases. Medical used to be hard to pay. Believe it or not, I am not against everything in Obamacare despite being more conservative-leaning in general. The part about pre-existing conditions and less to pay for those of us who make monstrously large amounts of $8.15 an hour (read: that is not that large of a salary, actually) is helpful for me. I just don't see why everyone has to be forced to buy insurance.

But that's just my opinion. You guys are older, white liberal men and thus have all the answers and the bigger brains. Carry on, because your opinions are the only ones that matter, not those of 29 year old women who forgot to have a ton of children and a slightly lower paying job in order to be respected. Or a degree in physics or something. One extreme or the other with you guys to get any respect, I've learned.

Btw: I and the other pathetic women at my job help support three young men who otherwise would be in prison were it not for our profession.

Not that any of that matters to you. Women need to have kids of their own to be respected, by golly!

if your working your butt off and are having trouble making ends meet,there is no shame looking into government aid until things get better

[GroundSupport]

if your working your butt off and are having trouble making ends meet,there is no shame looking into government aid until things get better

Exactly.

People on here though believe everyone is entitled to hand me outs.

[habsheaven]

Exactly.

People on here though believe everyone is entitled to hand me outs.

No one on here believes people are entitled to handouts. If anything, they believe their society is responsible to take care of each other in times of need. There's a big difference between the two.

[gsj68]

No one on here believes people are entitled to handouts. If anything, they believe their society is responsible to take care of each other in times of need. There's a big difference between the two.

key work there,society,

society>government