Demand the Real Facts on Wal-Mart
Demand the Real Facts on Wal-Mart
At Walmartfacts.com — a website set up by the retail giant — you’ll learn the company had $285.2 billion in sales last year, opposes strengthening child labor laws in Connecticut and hides the cover of Marie Clair magazine with a sheet of plastic. One statistic you won’t find: how many of its employees are forced to enroll in Medicaid for health coverage.
Inquiring minds want to know. Yesterday, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. John Corzine and Rep. Anthony Weiner introduced the Health Care Accountability Act which would require “states to report annually on the number of workers relying on taxpayer-funded health programs.” Kennedy said “[p]rograms like Medicaid provide a critical safety net for low-income women and children, the disabled, and the elderly and shouldn’t be a profit center for large companies like Wal-Mart.”
Kennedy and the other bill sponsors estimate that 600,000 of Wal-Mart’s 1.3 million workers do not have company insurance. As a result “[e]very worker in America is paying a part of their taxes to pay for Wal-Mart.”
For the latest, check out walmartwatch.com.
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This bill doesn’t go nearly far enough. We already know Wal-Mart doesn’t pay for health care. They need to start. Not tell us what we already know.
June 23rd, 2005 at 9:12 amSelective morality tied directly to individual selfishness.
June 23rd, 2005 at 9:35 amIf the US gov can spend 200 billion dollars in Iraq, they can help 600,000 Walmart employees, too.
In fact, the US government should be paying for everybody’s healthcare insurance. CEOs of insurance companies don’t need to be making 25 million dollars each year from health insurance premiums paid by hapless, suckered tax slaves.
The American ordinary cat walking the street pays through the nose these days. Everybody is picking on Americans everywhere you go. We can thank George Bush for that.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:19 amRon writes: “the US government should be paying for everybody’s healthcare insurance”.
But since the gov’t gets its money from the wealthy, Ron is really saying: “the wealthy should be paying for everybody’s healthcare insurance”.
June 23rd, 2005 at 12:54 pmHey Judd, you should also include a link to WakeUpWalMart.com, a group which was instrumental in getting this legislation introduced. Thanks.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:05 pmActually, to be fair guys…i am proud member of WakeUpWalMart.com…they are great and passionate bunch…
…they were the ones that did this…I know I have their email they sent…and I am citizen cosponsor for the fair share house house party…
Walmartwatch had nothing to do with this…So please give credit where credit is do….
SJ
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:14 pm.. and the wealthy make their money off the backs of the worker. So therefore, the worker indirectly pays for the govt. and many workers do not receive their fair share in order to afford healthcare.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:21 pmThis is uncivilized behavoir that leads to the breakdown of a society not the odd hummer.
I used to post oppositional, yet polite commentary on the WakeUpWalmart blog (similar to my posts at ThinkProgress).
While it was in his right to do so, Brendan banned me from posting there.
Apparently he doesn’t care about free, thought provoking, open dialouge about Walmart.
That, or he was scared of people reading my pro-freedom constitutionalist writings and links.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:36 pmTony, thanks for being here. I banned you because you were posting under different names, using profanity in your comments, and posting the exact same comment in multiple posts.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:42 pmBrendan-
Click here to view all my posts on the WakeUpWalmart blog, and decide for yourself if I was worth banning.
Thank you Google.
June 23rd, 2005 at 2:17 pmyour offensive and repeat posts were deleted, which means they no longer appear there. This is not the venue for such a discussion. Feel free to email me at info [at] wakeupwalmart.com if you need anything further.
June 23rd, 2005 at 2:20 pmWell, the ThinkProgress readers know that I may be a lot of things, but a foul-mouth is not one of them.
Perhaps some unscrupulous individual was posting bad words under my name.
June 23rd, 2005 at 2:32 pmI have had no problem voicing my comments on wakeupwalmart.com – Tony. I think you are being a little ridiculous…
overall they are doing God’s work to change our country…stop making it about you…baby.
SJ
June 23rd, 2005 at 3:00 pmSo that whole bit about promoting the general welfare in the preamble was a joke by the founding fathers right?
June 23rd, 2005 at 3:06 pmsteve johanson-
June 23rd, 2005 at 3:09 pmOf course you have no problem, you agree with them.
Carlton-
Jefferson said:
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
Madison said:
June 23rd, 2005 at 3:10 pm“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”
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