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Originally Posted by dellinger63
If WalMart employees would have worked harder and been more responsible when they were in school, they wouldn't be forced to work at WalMart or some other menial job requiring little to no skills and would have a job that paid a living wage.
For heaven's sake the greeter at my WalMart can't get out of a chair and manages a 'welcome to WalMart' every 3rd customer. And she deserves a raise? 
You want to give them more money, do it out your own pocket. Or organize such an effort.
BTW if 1.4% is such an insignificant number might I suggest the Federal Government give a 1.4% rebate, across the board on this year's personal income tax collected. What do you suppose $40 billion infused into the economy would do as opposed to taking an extra 1.4% from every WalMart shopper including seniors buying their drugs.
I'm not sure what your personal peeve is with WalMart but it's not just the Walton family and upper management that is making money. It's also their shareholders including most pension, education and diversified mutual funds. What do you suppose an arbitrary 1.4% raise in prices at the register would do to its stock price? |
I obviously agree with you that the more skills and talent a person has, the more money they deserve to make. That being said, that doesn't mean that a person in a menial job should have to practically starve. I mean there is a happy medium.
I heard some fast food workers (who are making $9 an hour) are asking for $15 an hour. That is a little bit extreme. They shouldn't go from $9 to $15. But if they got $10 or $11 an hour, I think that would be a reasonable compromise.
What you said about people working harder in school may have some merit, but I'm sure plenty of those people worked hard but just aren't very smart. Just because someone isn't very smart, it doesn't mean they should starve. I mean they don't deserve to make a lot of money but I think there is enough wealth in this country to at least pay the bottom jobs a slightly higher wage. There is a happy medium.
In addition, the job market is so poor right now that even some people with good educations and good skills can't find a decent job. I'm sure there are some employees at Walmart who are overqualified but who can't find decent jobs anywhere else.