Walmart: A wage depressing, sprawl inducing, union busting, benefit... [View All]

[JanMichael]

...scrimping, overtime gouging, All American Champ!

Oh and a pass off our employees problems, caused by our immense avarice($420,750: Annual cost to U.S. taxpayers of a single 200-employee Wal-Mart store, because of support required for underpaid workers -- including subsidized school lunches, food stamps, housing credits, tax credits, energy assistance, and health care), creating exploiter...It's starting to challenge the old Trusts in the "pure freakin' evil" catagory.

Here's the article.

$2,200,000,000: Total dividends Wal-Mart plans to pay its shareholders this fiscal year, after a 44% dividend increase announced March 2, 2004

$23,000,000: Average annual compensation for Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, 2000-2003

$4,500,000: Average annual compensation for previous Wal-Mart CEO David Glass, 1995-2000

$8.00: Approximate nationwide average hourly wage for Wal-Mart employees

$6.25: Starting wage for a cashier at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Salina, Kansas, 2003

$12,192: Income earned by a newly hired cashier working 40-hour weeks (more than the 32-hour company-wide average) for a year, with no weekdays off, at the Salina Supercenter
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Almost forgot to add that the Walton family, only claim to fame is that they're the recipients of golden sperm, is trying like the Devil to destroy our Public Schools. And they donate almost exclusivly to Rethuglicans (and Lieberman)...

Enjoy the cheap pickles!