I just posted this on Wal Mart's Facebook page.

[TalkingDog]

Walmart workers’ reliance on public assistance programs cost American taxpayers millions of dollars annually. The families of Walmart workers used 38 percent more non-health benefits—food stamps, subsidized school lunches—than the families of employees of other large retailers.

A study by the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, A Downward Push: The Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Retail Wages and Benefits, showed that Walmart replaced better-paying jobs with lower-wage ones and depressed wages in competing businesses.

The January 2012 Walmart Associate Benefits book provides a directory so associates can locate their local Medicaid office.

Along with this link:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/02-7

Wal-Mart: 50 Years of Gutting America's Middle Class



For all the "Let's shit on this post" people, the posting was in response to this hypocrisy:




So, the people who depress wages to the point that people HAVE to go on public assistance (and therefore cost you more in tax dollars) to feed their kids, now want to help feed the kids they are starving, just so they can get ANOTHER TAX BREAK.

Fuck you Wal-Mart

[Indydem]

1. Do you feel awesome?

Because it's not going to stay there, and you'll be reported for spamming.

[Fawke Em]

2. One post isn't spamming.

It won't stay there, of course, but it's not spamming.

[boston bean]

3. made me feel good to read about it here. nt

[TalkingDog]

4. I don't care and I don't feel awesome. I just feel pissed off

because it was in response to THIS

[Indydem]

5. How dare those evil fuckers

donate food to help the hungry, participate in summer learning programs, or hire employees.

Holy SHIT, are these fuckers actually HITLER?

[progressoid]

6. Yes, the Walmart corporation is a beacon of selfless dedication to the public good.

Their ill-perceived greed overshadows their true plan to rid the world of poverty through monopolistic price control and low wages.

[Indydem]

7. Wal-Mart does plenty of bad.

Why get shitty over what little good corporate citizenship they do engage in? Why not be encouraging more?

[progressoid]

13. Their "good corporate citizenship" is mere PR.

There is a reason they have to advertise their supposed good corporate citizenship. They have decades of disastrous business practices they need people to forget about.

I'll stop getting shitty when their "good corporate citizenship" exceeds their greed. They have a looong way to go before they're even close to closing that gap.

[librechik]

8. you know who else disguised fascism with PR "kindness to children" (Aryan ones) and gifts of food?

Oh, wait, I think you just told me! How nice for them to employ 3000 teens at minimum wage, no benefits--they only saved themselves a few million dollars in labor costs... Really---you can't see through that propaganda? Really?

are you a dem from Indiana or an "independent dem?" because I question your dedication to democratic causes if you rush to the defense of fucking WalMart!

[Indydem]

9. I'm a Democrat from Indiana

I did not know that attacking Wal-Mart was a democratic cause.

I find it repugnant that attacking a business that employs millions of Americans (including my mother) and DOES provide them benefits (my mother has better health insurance than I do) and, in this case, is doing good works in communities across the nation, is some how now boilerplate of the Democratic Party (according to some).

If that is the case, that the litmus test for whether or not you are a "true democrat" is shitting on Wal-Mart over every fucking thing that they do, good or bad, then I guess I fail your personally contrived test.

[librechik]

10. I find it ironic that you have a relative that works at WalMart

and are still defending their labor practices. And yes, standing up to bad actors like WalMart (altho being critical of their policies is hardly "shitting on them&quot is part of being a good democrat. Now I've told you, so you have no excuse as a good democrat not to defend your mother instead of her greedy, soul-less bosses.

[Indydem]

11. You have your opinions, I have mine.

My mom loves her job, makes competitive wages for an unskilled, inexperienced laborer in our area. She was offered benefits when no one else even considered it. They have treated her with nothing but respect and been very flexible with her when by dad was sick and dying.

You have a bias against Wal-Mart because of what you believe they do. While they sure as hell aren't saints (no corporation is) they are no more evil than any other corporation. There are plenty of other companies that polute our air and water, employ people at lower wages, use virtual slave labor and a host of other terrible offenses, however all I ever see is Democrats attacking Wal-Mart for every single thing they do. Help the community - bastards. Extend benefits to more employees - bastards. Put solar cells on their stores - bastards.

I didn't do business with Wal-Mart before my mom started working there (i did buy DVD's there on occasion). But they way that they have treated my mom has really changed my opinion on them. Perhaps here store is the exception to the rule, I don't know, but it ruffles my feathers when all I ever read on this board about Wal-Mart is attacks and 5 year old studies relying on 12 year old data.

[librechik]

12. there are set opinions, and then there are facts.

You are the one defending a set of opinions.

[TalkingDog]

14. If they paid living wages and offered benefits, a number of those hungry kids would be fed at home.

If you think "hire employees" is some kind of code for- offer people a wage and benefits they can live on while supporting the local economy so that the regions they are in flourish instead of degrade- I hate to break it to you, but you are wrong.

And while your hyperbole is amusing. It also is churlishly juvenile. If you want to argue the merits of Wal Mart feel free. Otherwise, I'll just assume you have no argument and resort to taunting to cover for that fact.