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57. If Wal-Mart gave all their employees a turkey for Thanksgiving

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 08:03 AM

Nov 2013

then those employees would NOT buy turkeys from Wal-Mart. It's all about profits.

Capitalism is designed to pit employers against their own employees by paying lower and lower wages. That's why all the off shoring of jobs, the illegal immigrants and the HB-1 visa workers. It's all about paying less and less to the people who do the real work in corporations. Without our labor none of these corporations could exist.

Capitalism is such a crappy economic system humanity should have evolved away from it centuries ago.

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Pic Of The Moment: Here's How WalMart Are Thanking Their Employees This Year [View all] EarlG Nov 2013 OP

Disgusting. geardaddy Nov 2013 #1

Walmarts response... Gary 50 Nov 2013 #2

Those ads make me want to throw up! Initech Nov 2013 #20

It's quite telling to me that they have no shame in doing this and are pretending Nay Nov 2013 #3

TELL THE SENATE: WE WANT A $10 MINIMUM WAGE mc51tc Nov 2013 #4

Too low. daleanime Nov 2013 #6

$15 now with 6 month increases of $.75 until we hit obxhead Nov 2013 #40

I like the way you think daleanime Nov 2013 #53

$10 is a joke. Mika Nov 2013 #7

Be careful who you call a troll! Read the rules! mc51tc Nov 2013 #9

I agree, $10 is a vast improvement over $7, but OUR Walmart is campaigning for $25K/yr ($13/hour). SunSeeker Nov 2013 #18

So, why do you think that there's so much low-balling on the min wage here? Mika Nov 2013 #26

Dunno. We've been pounded so long that a lot of us think $10 is good? It is, compared to $7. nt SunSeeker Nov 2013 #27

To be fair Tien1985 Nov 2013 #51

I'm convinced $15.00 should be the minimum. airplaneman Nov 2013 #8

Just read that Seattle is pushing for 15.00 minimum. n/t dixiegrrrrl Nov 2013 #10

Great and Washington DC look like they are trying to do better to. n/t. airplaneman Nov 2013 #12

Huh??? ReRe Nov 2013 #19

Forget the minimum wage hike, Corporations have gotten too good at working around it. Amimnoch Nov 2013 #48

Almost half a trillion made last year... KansDem Nov 2013 #5

Wish they old "truth in advsertising" laws were back. lark Nov 2013 #11

A Walmart spokesperson responded to this by saying AndyA Nov 2013 #13

What's scary is Ahpook Nov 2013 #35

He's absolutely right tavernier Nov 2013 #42

What if a corporation's minimum wage was tied to its profit? valerief Nov 2013 #14

No, they would find a way to rig that and most people still work for smaller employers... glowing Nov 2013 #31

You don't get my point. Your minimum wage would be my basement wage. If a corporation made, say, valerief Nov 2013 #47

I'm Speechless. Ganja Ninja Nov 2013 #15

I'm appalled. Solly Mack Nov 2013 #16

What is Walmart Corporate going to put in those bins? Why are only $7/hr workers contributing?! SunSeeker Nov 2013 #17

If Wal-Mart gave all their employees a turkey for Thanksgiving fasttense Nov 2013 #57

How much profit is too much??? Initech Nov 2013 #21

I suppose the Walton family will kick in a can of beans LiberalEsto Nov 2013 #22

Wow abelenkpe Nov 2013 #23

I heard that they sneak the canned goods back out onto the shelves rather than giving them Jackpine Radical Nov 2013 #24

They didn't create their wealth, they inherited it. No smarts needed. SunSeeker Nov 2013 #28

Yup. It's called the "lucky sperm club." CTyankee Nov 2013 #32

The Waltons disabling their collective conscienc is sorta like Jackpine Radical Nov 2013 #39

Greed..plain and simple!!! blue14u Nov 2013 #25

There's the rub Flatpicker Nov 2013 #30

In some areas of the country, there is no choice. They long ago shuttered main st and any other glowing Nov 2013 #33

But I would be Flatpicker Nov 2013 #37

I see your point as you and I blue14u Nov 2013 #50

This is the exact reason I have not shopped there in the last seven years. JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #29

But on the TV machine they just had an ad about how happy and feeling good their employees are Botany Nov 2013 #34

This is disgusting. Do they have no shame? Paper Roses Nov 2013 #36

They couldn't put it where the customers could see it, of course rocktivity Nov 2013 #38

I...I...I have no words. emmadoggy Nov 2013 #41

WalMart and Corporate America... jjewell Nov 2013 #43

This is truly one of the saddest things I've ever seen. n/t devils chaplain Nov 2013 #44

But a higher MW will put TEEN-AGERS out of work!! WinkyDink Nov 2013 #45

Unreal, EarlG! Nervy Sociopaths. Cha Nov 2013 #46

oh wally, you guys know how to love those employees! haha Divine Discontent Nov 2013 #49

Does anyone know where the Waltons live? Gumboot Nov 2013 #52

I guess they believe in socialism after all CubicleGuy Nov 2013 #54

I thought your pic would be of them waiting on crass people who insist on shopping on T-Giving nt rpannier Nov 2013 #55

They have to keep those employees hungry. Enthusiast Nov 2013 #56

sad riverbendviewgal Nov 2013 #58

Gouge forth and suffer Blue Owl Nov 2013 #59