Government subsidies and unions...

[FluffyMcDeath]

The majority of Walmart employees are on food stamps. How's that for a government subsidy? So unions are helping retail workers organize so that they get paid enough to get off the government handouts. It's not like Walmart can't afford to treat them better!

 

[cecilia]

and idiots wonder why unions are important

 

[robert l. bentham]

but fluffy... wal mart heirs need that money so they can do the good works that are for the people....

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/a...=1&adxnnlx=1347885794-DLXXyTgul4QAtb6jM5EEOg&

“For years I’ve been thinking about what we could do as a family that could really make a difference in this part of the world,” said Ms. Walton, who is 61. “I thought this is something we desperately need, and what a difference it would have made were it here when I was growing up.”