<div id="RTEContent"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">"The statement remains that an employer must pay livable wages, the wages that keep employees off of welfare.</span></font>"--Tom Hansen<br> <br> How do you do that without causing inflation which harms those not currently working, retired, living on fixed income, on SSI, and banks?<br> <br> How do you think companies pay their workers? They pay through sales on the product or service. If costs go up, so does the price of bread. Bread goes up, bread is no longer affordable to the poor. So do you raise the wages again? No, you work on reducing costs. How do you reduce costs? You reduce costs through increased productivity. One way you increase production is by getting people that are not working to work.<br> <br> Increasing wages causes inflation. Inflation hurts the non-working poor, who are unfortunately worse off then the working poor!
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<br> There is no free lunch. You cannot steal from the poor to pay the poor and expect conditions to change. Inflation does not solve the problem. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J Arnold<br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><b><i>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.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=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smartta!
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</o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType><div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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-Marts employees were collecting welfare prior to their employment at Wal-Mart.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><br> The statement remains that an employer must pay livable wages, the wages that keep employees off of welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><sp!
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">"If not us, who?<br> If not now, when?"<br> <br> -
Unknown</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> 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></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div id="RTEContent"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; 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> <br> 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> </span></font><br> <font id="role_document" color="black" face="Georgia"><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> <br> 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> <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> </span></font><br> <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">DonaldH675@aol.com</span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font id="role_document" color="black" face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: bl!
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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></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-fa!
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