Republican SNAP Proposals Could Take Food Away From Millions of Low-Income Individuals and Families

[initforme]

Yeah when pigs can fly out of your nose.

I could care less what Walmart does. If they don't hire good for them.

 

[Concerned American]

Or they could go to zero.

Many people are doing the same as I am and not patronizing these businesses that are being extorted by ridiculously high unskilled wages. I used to eat fast food 2-3 times a week. I haven't eaten at a fast food establishment in about three years here in WA. I can make a better burger, cheaper in my air fryer at home. Sit down restaurants are beginning to suffer as well. Twenty bucks for a pulled pork sandwich is nuts. In CA, some fast food places (Pizza Hut is one) are closing and where are those employees getting their $22 wage, now?

 

[Concerned American]

That's fine. I'm not a fan of Walmart.

You're a senile jaded fool.

 

[Concerned American]

I could care less what Walmart does. If they don't hire good for them.

I'll bet your nursing home cares. If Walmart went under, you'd have to find another place to live.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

That's fine. I'm not a fan of Walmart.

Or their low-skilled workers.

 

[initforme]

Many people are doing the same as I am and not patronizing these businesses that are being extorted by ridiculously high unskilled wages. I used to eat fast food 2-3 times a week. I haven't eaten at a fast food establishment in about three years here in WA. I can make a better burger, cheaper in my air fryer at home. Sit down restaurants are beginning to suffer as well. Twenty bucks for a pulled pork sandwich is nuts. In CA, some fast food places (Pizza Hut is one) are closing and where are those employees getting their $22 wage, now?

Nobody is being extorted. If they don't want to pay that's fine please please please fo not hire. We all win then.

 

[jknowgood]

Not all that much. There's high school kids here making $20 per hour after school. I've got zero issue with that.

That's not bad money for high school students.

 

[el midgetron]

In a few years we’ll probably be fighting each other to the death over a can of spam.

LOL that would be a hilarious movie! You gender queer folk with yer buttplugs vs normal folks with their ARs.

 

[el midgetron]

How about this , Companies like Walmart pay shit wages knowing that employees will struggle to make ends meet, and that they will be subsidized by YOUR TAX MONEY with social safety net programs. Yet you people let them get away with that shit by not supporting minimum wage laws and strong union representation . There is no ******* mystery .

Don’t shop at Walmart. If you do, don’t complain about Walmart.

If you don’t want to work for Walmart, don’t work at Walmart.

There are probably lots of newly opened jobs people would immigrate across the globe for. Like picking crops and collecting welfare.

 

[TruthNotBS]

You never said, of all the revenue Walmart had last year, how much did they hoard
from the low-skilled cashiers and shelf stockers?

I did answer your question, you just didn't like the answer. All of the money, every resource left, beyond what is considered overhead, should be reinvested in the company. What part of that didn't you understand? All of the money that is left after paying overhead costs (bills, labor), should be reinvested into the company.

As worker-owners of co-ops (cooperatives), we don't need to make a profit to remain in business and earn our salaries. Am I suggesting that companies shouldn't make a profit? No, but they don't have to. Walmart could remain in business, without profits, if it were owned and operated by its workers. As long as that company makes enough to pay its bills (including its workers), it's still in business. The productive enterprise can continue to function, producing and delivering goods and services without "profits".

All of these big multibillion-dollar companies should be owned and operated collectively by the workers who work for them. Walmart as a business, shouldn't be allowed to exist in its present form, it should be taken over by its workforce, the people who produce everything in that company. The Walton family can go to the beach or enjoy a lifetime of cruising the world:

Heck, the Waltons have so much money, they can even buy their own private cruise ship.​

If you're a Walton or some other billionaire, go enjoy your resources, that you'll never run out of, even in thousands of years of vacationing, and the working class will own the means of production from now on. The government will in collaboration with the workers, in the field, provide its services (Infrastructural, logistical services = Medicare, smart highways and seaports, cloud-services, GPS, WIFI, accounting..etc).

My answer again Todd, is that all of these companies should be owned and operated democratically (through a democratic system and process), by the people who work them. So again, concerning Walmart, all of the money that remains after overhead should be reinvested in the company, to expand it, scale it up, create new jobs, build new stores, buy better equipment, provide top-notch customer service, product warranties, pensions, paid vacations, maternal leave, in house child daycare for workers, clinics, even affordable housing..etc. If that answer isn't good enough for Todd, well...

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[TruthNotBS]

Don’t shop at Walmart. If you do, don’t complain about Walmart.

If you don’t want to work for Walmart, don’t work at Walmart.

There are probably lots of newly opened jobs people would immigrate across the globe for. Like picking crops and collecting welfare.

Perhaps if you weren't imposing economic sanctions upon those countries and forcing them to serve the interests of American, Canadian, and European companies, that just want cheap labor and raw materials, these illegal immigrants wouldn't come here. Not to speak of unnecessary wars which the US sponsors by arming and training foreign rebels, and direct actions like bombing and invading these countries. If you don't want those brown folks coming here from those other countries, to your White country, then keep them over there, by allowing them to develop their own lands.

The so-called H1B visa that Elon Musk loves, because he gets to hire the brightest minds from poor countries, extracting them from their homelands (i.e. brain-draining those poor nations of their brightest, most intelligent people), bringing them here where he can pay them much less than an American and threaten them with deportment if they try to unionize or acquire any leverage to negotiate their terms of employment. Elon admits this:

I'm all for deporting illegal immigrant criminals, as in murderers, drug-dealers, gang members, rapists, robbers..etc. however, the others, provided they're working, paying taxes, and purchasing goods and services from their local communities, I wouldn't deport them back to the countries WE'VE FUCKED, with our crap foreign policy, that for the most part is responsible for the conditions that lead to people leaving their countries and coming here.

If you don't want Julio to feel the need to migrate here, then stop undermining Julio's country with your economic sanctions, warmongering, bullying Julio's government to sell their infrastructure to American firms and build factories for American, Canadian, and European companies that just want to exploit cheap labor. It's not just the US doing this, it's also Canada and the EU. America is the TOP BULLY, but Canada and Europe also have their hand in this bully-racket. It's all about cheap labor and raw materials and to hell with the people of those countries. Well, Julio comes here to THE EMPIRE, hello?

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[Dragonlady]

Think of all the job openings after all the deportations.

Given that there were already millions of job openings that couldn’t be filled before the deportations, This simply means that food is going to rot in the fields and prices are going to go up.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I did answer your question, you just didn't like the answer. All of the money, every resource left, beyond what is considered overhead, should be reinvested in the company. What part of that didn't you understand? All of the money that is left after paying overhead costs (bills, labor), should be reinvested into the company.

As worker-owners of co-ops (cooperatives), we don't need to make a profit to remain in business and earn our salaries. Am I suggesting that companies shouldn't make a profit? No, but they don't have to. Walmart could remain in business, without profits, if it were owned and operated by its workers. As long as that company makes enough to pay its bills (including its workers), it's still in business. The productive enterprise can continue to function, producing and delivering goods and services without "profits".

All of these big multibillion-dollar companies should be owned and operated collectively by the workers who work for them. Walmart as a business, shouldn't be allowed to exist in its present form, it should be taken over by its workforce, the people who produce everything in that company. The Walton family can go to the beach or enjoy a lifetime of cruising the world:

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Heck, the Waltons have so much money, they can even buy their own private cruise ship.​

If you're a Walton or some other billionaire, go enjoy your resources, that you'll never run out of, even in thousands of years of vacationing, and the working class will own the means of production from now on. The government will in collaboration with the workers, in the field, provide its services (Infrastructural, logistical services = Medicare, smart highways and seaports, cloud-services, GPS, WIFI, accounting..etc).

My answer again Todd, is that all of these companies should be owned and operated democratically (through a democratic system and process), by the people who work them. So again, concerning Walmart, all of the money that remains after overhead should be reinvested in the company, to expand it, scale it up, create new jobs, build new stores, buy better equipment, provide top-notch customer service, product warranties, pensions, paid vacations, maternal leave, in house child daycare for workers, clinics, even affordable housing..etc. If that answer isn't good enough for Todd, well...

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I did answer your question, you just didn't like the answer

You didn't answer. I'm tired of your ignorant whining.

In fiscal 2023, Walmart had $648 billion in revenue. From $490 billion in goods,
operating expenses (salary, insurance, rent, property taxes etc.) of $131 billion.
After interest and taxes, net income was $15.5 billion.

Of that, about $8 billion was paid out as dividends.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Given that there were already millions of job openings that couldn’t be filled before the deportations, This simply means that food is going to rot in the fields and prices are going to go up.

Don't forget that rent and housing prices will fall.

You could use some of that up in Canada, eh?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Don't forget that rent and housing prices will fall.

You could use some of that up in Canada, eh?

Their cuck stepped down, hope springs eternal

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You have a serious reading comprehension problem.

$8 billion divided between 2.1 million employees is less than $4000 each.
Hardly enough to raise all their poor, unskilled workers into the middle-class.

 

[TruthNotBS]

$8 billion divided between 2.1 million employees is less than $4000 each.
Hardly enough to raise all their poor, unskilled workers into the middle-class.

Plenty more could be done with Walmart if it were a worker-owned co-op. They would save LOTS OF MONEY.

 

[Soupnazi630]

A lot more could be done with Walmart if it were a worker-owned co-op.

It would die as a business

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Plenty more could be done with Walmart if it were a worker-owned co-op. They would save LOTS OF MONEY.

They'd give $8 billion to the workers, what would they save?

 

[initforme]

That's not bad money for high school students.

Yep $20 per hour for a high school kids seems right where it should be.