I imagine you didn't actually read the article.Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans - Yahoo! News
The 6 sons of Sam Walton (Wal-Mart) are worth more than the bottom 30% of Americans combined. They have more money than 100,000,000 Americans combined.
Yet Obama and Republicans agreed that isn't enough.
I recall Michelle Obama congratulating Wal-Mart and President Obama agreeing that Walton son's just couldn't afford the health care law for their Wal-Mart employees so gave them an exemption. Republicans, of course, believe the Walton's pay too much for taxes already.
Why actually bothering to read the article and realize it makes your own OP look pretty stupid when you can simply toss it out there as a headline and then make a completely unconnected and false follow on comment?I imagine you didn't actually read the article.
I think we should be disturbed by the dumbing down of Americans. Too many people are easily manipulated by flimsy arguments based on convoluted statistics, especially as regards the income inequality issue.Why actually bothering to read the article and realize it makes your own OP look pretty stupid when you can simply toss it out there as a headline and then make a completely unconnected and false follow on comment?
How awesome that, in this country, it is possible to be so overwhelmingly successful, and that you can pass on some of your success to your kids.
The really sad part to me is that there was a time when people were INSPIRED by the success of Sam Walton and would teach their children to work hard and succeed. Today we have a whiner class that is really really really sad about how unfair life is.I think we should be disturbed by the dumbing down of Americans. Too many people are easily manipulated by flimsy arguments based on convoluted statistics, especially as regards the income inequality issue.
WalMart employs a few million unskilled and under-educated people across the planet. Its so unfair, maybe someone else should provide better opportunities for them.How about passing on some of that success to the people who helped you achieve it? Like, your employees?
I can only imagine how much value this one firm must have provided to the rest of society in order for society to have given them that much money in return. It boggles the mind that a single company has made society $93 billion better off.Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans - Yahoo! News
The 6 sons of Sam Walton (Wal-Mart) are worth more than the bottom 30% of Americans combined. They have more money than 100,000,000 Americans combined.
Yet Obama and Republicans agreed that isn't enough.
I recall Michelle Obama congratulating Wal-Mart and President Obama agreeing that Walton son's just couldn't afford the health care law for their Wal-Mart employees so gave them an exemption. Republicans, of course, believe the Walton's pay too much for taxes already.
Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans - Yahoo! News
The 6 sons of Sam Walton (Wal-Mart) are worth more than the bottom 30% of Americans combined. They have more money than 100,000,000 Americans combined.
Yet Obama and Republicans agreed that isn't enough.
I recall Michelle Obama congratulating Wal-Mart and President Obama agreeing that Walton son's just couldn't afford the health care law for their Wal-Mart employees so gave them an exemption. Republicans, of course, believe the Walton's pay too much for taxes already.
I can only imagine how much value this one firm must have provided to the rest of society in order for society to have given them that much money in return. It boggles the mind that a single company has made society $93 billion better off.
We just picked up 360 boxes of food and full sized hams for Christmas dinners this AM for distribution. Picked them up from the Walmart distribution center (they also donated an identical number of dinners and full sized turkeys for Thanksgiving. They funded to homeless shelters Thanksgiving meal. They also are the majority fund-giver of the county Domestic violence coalition and Women's Shelter. Along with McDonald's, they fund most of our prevention programs for at-risk youth (I am sure they claim much of this on their corporate taxes). That doesn't address how much they give in other charitable contributions, how much they pay in state and local taxes, and how many jobs they are responsible for in the community between the Distribution Center and 4 local stores. Not sure what you are looking for in 'worth to a community', but I know what they provide here.I can only imagine how much value this one firm must have provided to the rest of society in order for society to have given them that much money in return. It boggles the mind that a single company has made society $93 billion better off.
no, they don't. their "net worth" is more, which in no way means that they have "more money". in fact, were they to attempt to access that wealth, they would destroy much of it.
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Wal Mart saves the average poor family... what, like 3-5,000 a year?
How about passing on some of that success to the people who helped you achieve it? Like, your employees?
I don't really care how much money they have, provided they pay their fair share in taxes. But I do think this article demonstrates Walmart should think about paying it's employees (most of whom probably fall into the bottom 30%) a little more.Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans - Yahoo! News
The 6 sons of Sam Walton (Wal-Mart) are worth more than the bottom 30% of Americans combined. They have more money than 100,000,000 Americans combined.
Yet Obama and Republicans agreed that isn't enough.
I recall Michelle Obama congratulating Wal-Mart and President Obama agreeing that Walton son's just couldn't afford the health care law for their Wal-Mart employees so gave them an exemption. Republicans, of course, believe the Walton's pay too much for taxes already.
How awesome that, in this country, it is possible to be so overwhelmingly successful, and that you can pass on some of your success to your kids.
We just picked up 360 boxes of food and full sized hams for Christmas dinners this AM for distribution. Picked them up from the Walmart distribution center (they also donated an identical number of dinners and full sized turkeys for Thanksgiving. They funded to homeless shelters Thanksgiving meal. They also are the majority fund-giver of the county Domestic violence coalition and Women's Shelter. Along with McDonald's, they fund most of our prevention programs for at-risk youth (I am sure they claim much of this on their corporate taxes). That doesn't address how much they give in other charitable contributions, how much they pay in state and local taxes, and how many jobs they are responsible for in the community between the Distribution Center and 4 local stores. Not sure what you are looking for in 'worth to a community', but I know what they provide here.
Yeah, and they get paid, in general, very little, some with no benefits. I don't begrudge any man success. Howeverit is a poverty that the people who do the hands on work that make him successful are impoverished or very near it.They get paid to do a job.
Yeah, and they get paid, in general, very little, some with no benefits. I don't begrudge any man success. Howeverit is a poverty that the people who do the hands on work that make him successful are impoverished or very near it.
Corporations could be doing much more to ensure that the rank and file that make their companies run are properly taken care of, and not merely given as little as they will accept to do the job.
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