<div id="RTEContent"><font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">"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<br> <br> Good point. However, </font></font><font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">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.<br> </font></font><br> <font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">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. <br> <br> Wal-Mart also gets dinged because most companies !
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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. <br> <br> Which came first for the Wal-mart employee, the Food Stamps or the job at Wal-Mart? This is fundamental before accusations are made!<br> <br> -DJA<br> </font></font><br><b><i>DonaldH675@aol.com</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"> <div>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!
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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.</div> <div> </div> <div><font family="SERIF" ptsize="12" face="Georgia" lang="0" size="3">Don Huskey<br><br>"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi</font></div></font>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> !
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