Walmart Holds Food Drive for Its Own Employees

a Walmart in Northeast Ohio held a food drive for its underpaid employees so they would have something tasty to eat during the Thanksgiving holiday now keep in mind that the majority the vast majority of all time Walmart employees make twenty five thousand dollars a year these all borough time Walmart employees full-time okay not part-time and that is not enough to be above the poverty level it's to be fair to be fairly have barely above a few family of poor mother yes so if you're a family of four and you I have a household income up twenty five thousand dollars you're just barely above the poverty level now as a result the government has to subsidize these employees through governmental programs and social services like welfare or the SNAP program which is the food stamp program and it's been up to fairly disastrous for our economy when you consider that 483 hundred-person superstore Super Center for wal-mart update the government pays about 904 2,542 to 1.7 million each year so that's our taxpayer money no your problems you should be livid about that ride wire is our taxpayer money gonna subsidize accompanying me this crony capitalism right what a big an unfair advantage to lead an unfair advantage over your small business where we might happen to be in the country now that a ride is it of course says Walmart gives a tremendous amount a political donations might is right an always-on all our problems love Walmart now to be fair so the clintons a lot of politicians coming out are gone so the Republicans or Democrats Blanche Lincoln was a democrat of arkansas couldn't get far up enough wal-mart's you know what a luck wishes on congress anymore but what difference does it make anybody else who come to all my absolutely just give me the money and I'll follow back you look at the store looking outrageous it is they've got a new their asking people to donate food for their own underpaid employees that's essentially saying hey look we know we're not paying them a living wage we know that the majority of them are living in poverty but who cares about that we're gonna ask you to not only spend your tax dollars a governmental programs to help them out we're all gonna ask you to feed them during the holidays which is ridiculous especially considering the fact that Walmart is well the largest employers in the country and what are the most profitable okay and I a when are we gonna have some common sense regulation this country that has these corporations paying their employees a living wage it's insane now and E waller's on a small country like I will you know there are tough times work they do in for a little while ago to pay low salaries and then they're trying to help out by doing this charity for for their own employees dunno they make billions upon billions of dollars every single year in fact the six walks in here's most amazing fact there is have more wealth than the bottom forty percent of the country they're not hurting for money so could they pay their water workers just a little bit more so you don't have to share drive Shalam so they can actually buy their own food and so they don't have to rely on tax rules of course they can and they just make I don't know where they make a billion dollars last out of the 10 the billions they make in property year I'm Iwate but no Totoro stock market is all controlling you the market price must go up every year so G gotta squeeze more and more money lol workers and so they rely on the charity O others and and the american taxpayers so that wal-mart could continue to pay obscene profits so let me jump in with some proposed solutions one proposed solution which I think obviously make sense if having the federal minimum wage increased okay to a living wage alright so to keep up with the inflation and all that but another proposed a solution to it is the earned income tax credit right which i think is the dumbest idea ever because they basically have the american taxpayers up make up for the difference in what the the Walmart refuses to pay employed now it would be in the form of a tax refund or tax credit when they actually do their taxes but they're not is it basically forcing them to go up by unaccounted do their taxes to ensure that they'll get that money back in one lump sum which is not going to help a lot of people the best way to do it is to make sure that they have a steady indecent incomes they can feed their family near not to rely on governmental programs if you are a full time worker in this country you should be living in poverty it's not broken simple yeah a lot of these workers by the way I am I've been there for a long long time to this whole idea I don't worry at least you can work your way up not really I mean you know some small percentage cameras you know we did the store and fast food a chains and it turns out that they don't promote from within the just hire executives from other companies executives in so a tiny percentage get moved up and the overwhelming majority stay at minimum wage or a little better poverty wages or tiny bit better and I just wanna close this a story by reading you a comment from the spokesperson for wal-mart he says this is part of the company's culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships well I love that quote because they're totally acknowledging that they treat their employees poorly yet who gave them the extreme hardship new did pent up paying them so if you shared in your enormous profits with your employer is a little bit that they wouldn't be an extreme hardship