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Rigged Economy: Working People Subsidize Walmart... While Walmart Subsidizes Hillary Clinton. (Original Post)
AzDar
May 2016
OP
AzDar
(14,023 posts)1. Kicking For Truth...
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)2. This was a great point that needs to be made over and over.
thank you for posting!
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)3. $900,000 to $1.8 million in public aid
go to the workers at one Walmart Supercenter in Wisconsin. The numbers were compiled using public records. It appears that the report from the congressional Dems is no longer online or has been moved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/walmart-taxpayers-house-report_n_3365814.html
AzDar
(14,023 posts)4. The Walton Family... America's REAL Welfare 'Queens'.
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)5. Money for political candidates, money for cruise ship sized yachts
but no money for the people who earn you that money. It makes me sick with disgust.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)6. great point.
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)8. Workers are simply chattel in the 3rd Way economy...
HRC doesn't have time to listen to their incessant whining...
WalMart could shoot their workers and she might defend them. She's been on the WalMart gravy train for DECADES. She has personally profited from some of the worst worker exploitation this side of Shanghai.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)9. The Love for Walmart is Buy Partisan
Important history from 1992 campaign:
Bush Ventures to Clinton Turf, Honors Sam Walton
Republicans: The trip to Arkansas is billed as nonpolitical. The gravely ill Wal-Mart founder is given the Medal of Freedom.
by Douglas Jehl
Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1992
BENTONVILLE, Ark. On the day Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton emerged as the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination, President Bush visited the governor's home state on a trip he insisted had nothing to do with politics.
Bush made the journey to present the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to one of its richest men, Sam Walton, the gravely ill 73-year-old founder of Wal-Mart Stores.
SNIP...
Walton, who built the Wal-Mart empire from one store to a $9-billion fortune, now is confined to a wheelchair, and Bush choked up during the ceremony at the company's headquarters in Bentonville as he praised the entrepreneur as an emblem of "America's success."
"I think it's important that all Americans understand that some things are going very, very well in the United States of America," Bush said. "And one of those things is Wal-Mart."
SNIP...
Wal-Mart has retained its Arkansas roots even as it has grown beyond the region. The chain also has links to the Clintons--the governor's wife, Hillary, has a substantial financial stake in the company and serves on its board of directors.
Walton's family has generously supported many of Clinton's past campaigns. This year, Walton has contributed the legal maximum of $1,000 to both Clinton and Bush.
CONTINUED...
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-18/news/mn-3841_1_sam-walton
Walmart continued to grow since then, making the heirs of Sam Walton very wealthy. Most everone else in the USA has not done so well.