[Vision2020] Chicken or the Egg, Which Came First, Wal-Mart or Food Stamps?

[Tom Hansen]

Perhaps you are right, Arnold.  Perhaps a large percentage (maybe even most)
of Wal-Mart’s employees were collecting welfare prior to their employment at
Wal-Mart.


The statement remains that an employer must pay livable wages, the wages
that keep employees off of welfare.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:38 AM
To: DonaldH675 at aol.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Chicken or the Egg, Which Came First,Wal-Mart or Food
Stamps?

 

"Certainly the facts about how many current Walmart employees in Moscow use
the county indigent health care system and how many qualify for food stamps
are relevant information because we all pay for those services." Don Huskey

Good point. However, how many Wal-Mart employees were already on Food
Stamps, Social Security, Disability, or a government assisted program BEFORE
being hired by Wal-Mart? That is the question that should be asked.
 
It would strike me as odd that someone with skills, experience, an education
and/or the ability to get hired elsewhere would stay at a job that pays so
little they stay on food stamps. 

Wal-Mart also gets dinged because most companies ! will not hire senior
citizens and the disabled because of medical costs. These people probably
are being underpaid, but cannot get hired elsewhere. It is easy to offer
medical benefits when you weed those people out of your workforce like so
many companies do. 

Which came first for the Wal-mart employee, the Food Stamps or the job at
Wal-Mart? This is fundamental before accusations are made!

-DJA

DonaldH675 at aol.com wrote:

I just saw on the news (and I missed most of the details because I was doing
other things at the same time) that a state has passed legislation requiring
Walmart to carry health insurance! for it's workers in that state. Maybe we
need to lobby the state to do something similar. Certainly the facts about
how many current Walmart employees in Moscow use the county indigent health
care system and how many qualify for food stamps are relevant information
because we all pay for those services. I suspect when all is said and done
we'll find that Walmart's low prices are a sham and that the additional cost
of to the public of supporting the store exceeds the benefits of the low
prices. Since I have not seen any actual analyses I could be wrong.

 

Don Huskey

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win." Mahatma Gandhi

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