Walton, Benioff Join Billionaires Backing Clinton in 2016
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Billionaires Alice Walton, George Soros and Marc Benioff are helping to finance a super-political action committee encouraging former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president, according to a report filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-01/walton-benioff-join-billionaires-backing-clinton-in-2016.html
Alice Louise Walton (born October 7, 1949) is an American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She is the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton, and sister of S. Robson Walton and Jim Walton. In March 2012, her estimated net worth was US$26.3 billion, making her the second-richest American woman and the tenth-richest American.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walton
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I was just getting some recipes together for Sunday, getting all excited (about the food and a few guests, not the game)
Then I come here to check out stuff, find out what's going on from the good people.
..and I read about this.. (Just the info, FORGO, not your fault. 
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We're totally expendable..useless,
We're like the serfs in the 5th century being laid waste by the Franks and the Visigoths.
OR the peasants in 13th century Japan..
OR the peons during the Siege of Baghdad
And FORGO--your comment about her sucking up to Walmart paying off sure hit the kneecap right on the money ! LOTS OF IT.
What a bunch of crap..
"Boy, when I was young, you fought long and hard to make sure a transworld mega corporation kept their end of the bargain. I thank them for their struggle to keep us small and insignificant. Them was some mighty good commercials that made all of us to feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Boy! don't get me started on the cool Boeing and Exxon/BP ads! USA! USA! USA! 
The Republicans already have the Koch Brothers and some other billionaires funding anti Hillary PACs.
As for Alice Walton, she is of a similar age as Hillary's. She and Hillary came of age in the 60s, along with the women's movement. Alice may have decided that it's fine time for a woman to be president. Besides, she could be a Democrat for all we know.
Whatever.......
This article seems to be a fair assessment of the company. Like most things in life, it's not a black and white issue. In some areas of the country it's either working for Wal-Mart or some place that's even worse.
Critics of Wal-Mart call the homespun stuff a fraud, a calculated strategy to put a human face on a relentlessly profit-minded corporation. What is paradoxical and suspect to people outside Wal-Mart, however, is perfectly normal to the people who work there. It reflects a deal that Sam Walton, Wal-Mart's founder, made with the people who worked for him.
"If you're good to people, and fair with them, and demanding of them, they will eventually decide that you're on their side," Walton says in his autobiography, Made in America (co-written with Time Inc. editorial director and former FORTUNE managing editor John Huey). Mr. Sam's--in Wal-Mart parlance Walton is always "Mr. Sam"--frequent appearances in the stores testified to the deal. Longtime associates recall that at each store he visited he would pull some crackers off the shelf and set up shop in the back of the store, chatting with associates and listening to their concerns. "You would be working away and out of the blue Mr. Sam's voice would come over the PA system," recalls Sheila Kaylor, a Wal-Mart worker who met Sam Walton several times, in Waco, Ky. "He was so real and so down to earth."
But the deal was a lot more than just a matter of the occasional visit from Mr. Sam. Wal-Mart demonstrated its concern for workers in many ways that were small but specific: time and a half for work on Sundays, an "open door" policy that let workers bring concerns to managers at any level, the real chance of promotion (about 70% percent of store managers started as hourly associates). In her book Nickel and Dimed, left-wing social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, who spent a week working in a Wal-Mart store in Minnesota, complains, "Why would anybody put up with the wages we were paid?" That original deal--all those unquantifiable things that fall under "good" and "fair"--is a big part of the answer. It was a deal, in short, that promised Wal-Mart would be different--more human, more caring--than any other employer in the low-wage service sector.
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My mother was an employee of Sam's," says Marsha Wardingly, a ten-year Sam's Club partner (the Sam's Club equivalent to "associate"
who is active in the union drive. "It was a really good place to work. You got time and a half on Sundays. That disappeared six months to the day after Sam died. They just took so much away from us. One day we would get raises a dollar an hour at a time, and then next they started rating us for raises of 10 to 50 cents." (Wardingly's memory differs insignificantly from Wal-Mart's: The company notes that time and a half stopped before Walton died but after he retired, and that raises are now generally between 25 and 60 cents an hour.) Sam's Club partners point not just to specific losses in benefits or pervasive understaffing but also to a more general deterioration in the relationship with management. "When you went to work at a Sam's Club, they would say, 'This is your Sam's Club,' " says Frank Lupiani, a nine-year employee. "Now they don't trust anyone."
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/03/18/319920/
Do you prefer that these billionaires donate their money to conservative PACs?
Woulda, coulda, shoulda doesn't work in politics. This is the current reality.
