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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Perhaps you are right, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>. Perhaps a large percentage (maybe
even most) of Wal-Mart’s employees were collecting welfare prior to their
employment at Wal-Mart.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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The statement remains that an employer must pay livable wages, the wages that
keep employees off of welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Donovan Arnold<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 13, 2006
11:38 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> DonaldH675@aol.com;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Chicken or
the Egg, Which Came First,Wal-Mart or Food Stamps?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>"Certainly the
facts about how many current Walmart employees in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> 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>
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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.<br>
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<font color=black face=Georgia id="role_document"><span style='font-family:
Georgia;color:black'>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>
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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. <br>
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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>
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-DJA<br>
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<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>DonaldH675@aol.com</span></i></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia id="role_document"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia family=SERIF
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Huskey<br>
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win." Mahatma Gandhi<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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