I refuse to shop at Walmart unless I really really have to. Walmart’s ruling family, the Waltons, has more wealth than 42% of American families combined.The Walton family is the richest family in the United States, with more wealth than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined. The Waltons’ wealth comes from their inherited, controlling stake in Walmart. While Walmart workers live in poverty, the Waltons rake in billions every year from the company.And the Waltons just keep getting richer.Since 2007, while millions of Americans were having their homes confiscated and jobs eliminated, the fortune of the six Waltons on the Forbes 400 list has more than doubled to an astounding $148.8 billion.The Waltons have these riches thanks to the hard work of their own employees and all of us taxpayers. Based on recent estimates, taxpayers subsidize Walmart as much as $3 billion per year.[1] Instead of paying workers enough to survive, the Waltons take billions from Walmart every year, while driving their workers on to food stamps and other public assistance.Unlike their employees, the Waltons reap billions from Walmart every year.Three Waltons—Rob, Jim, and Alice (all children of Walmart founder Sam Walton)—own over 50% of outstanding Walmart shares. This fiscal year, Rob, Jim, and Alice (and the various entities that they control) will receive an estimated $3.16 billion in Walmart dividends on those shares.If Sam Walton’s dependents actually worked for their Walmart dividend checks this year, they would be handed $1.5 million every hour. Meanwhile, Walmart workers get an average of $8.81 per hour and are routinely denied full-time work.[2]Amid concerns about the fiscal cliff in December 2012, Walmart moved up the final dividend payout of its fiscal year from January 2013 to December 2012 to avoid a possible increase in the tax rate on dividends. As the company’s largest and wealthiest shareholders, the Waltons were the biggest beneficiaries of the move.Most Walmart workers can only dream of making $25,000 in a year. Meanwhile, the Waltons get $25,000 per minute from their Walmart dividends alone.The Waltons can certainly afford to do better by their workers and the American taxpayers who subsidize their profit-at-any-cost model, but they continue to choose not to.The Waltons, using their their investment income alone, could fund a permanent $10,000 wage increase for the 1 million hourly store associates whose work generates Walmart’s profits.[3] Updated 3/5/14http://walmart1percent.org/how-rich-are-the-waltons/
How much did you expect to get paid to tell customers that you don't have what they're looking for?
I take offense to your depiction of the Irish.Let's keep our name calling HERE in the USA, and call out the welfare gimme-gangs that want it all but won't work for it!How many people here in the good ol' USA are willing to work hard to achieve their dreams? (Actually it's quite a few) There are way too many that fall into a "welfare" situation and found the freebies too good to pass up.That's when they gave up any idea of actually working for a living and made welfare acquisitions their lives. Before anyone jumps down my throat defending welfare recipients, let me state that I understand that there is a NEED for what should be re-named "transitional Assistance" (That's what it was called when it began but apparently was too hard a concept for people to understand)Welfare is no longer a plan for assisting those that have hit a "rough patch" in their lives, but is now a multi-million dollar business for the cities and states. My friend used to work there. It was 20 percent years ago.There is no incentive for anyone to leave the system when you get so much for free without having to pay for it!Sure, the UK has the "dole", and there are those that abuse it there as well.My relatives in Ireland are hard working people who are solely responsible for their own successes!!As for Gander Mtn...They are only obliged to offer what the going rate is (and maybe a little more). If they offer an employee discount, was it a decent discount? Maybe that was what they consider a "perk"?
Go to school, learn a trade, start a business. Too many people want handouts, I'm sick of it. I worked in retail in high school, the pay sucked, the job sucked, so I educated myself to do something else.
thats why I don't get why wal-mart is encouraging its employees to take advantage of welfare handouts??? Why not just pay them a decent rate instead of making the taxpayers foot the bill. The Waltons are taking full advantage of those wonderful trickle down policies that have worked so well for all the rich folks in this country.
Many of Walmart's employees qualify for welfare because their wages are so low. Try even getting 40 hours there. I had a family member that worked there so I know. Walmart even shows them how to apply for welfare. Fortunately may family member had family help so he wasn't forced to do so. Doesn't that mean the family owners of Walmart, that are some of the richest in the world, are getting subsidized to the tune of 6.2 billion a year by the us the taxpayers are on welfare. And then there's that guy running for president that hasn't paid taxes in 18 years. And we're worried about people that need assistance to eat? http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#7f47f0497cd8
just a little history lesson,minimum wage was never ever ever,ever supposed to be a living wage. it's sad to think now in the USA it is.
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