They bring wealth to themselves. They put local shops out of business and their employees need public assistance because they get paid so badly.

@Carin “They” are a corporation owned by shareholders. If you have a managed retirement fund you are probably a Walmart owner.

A lot of those local shops needed to be put out of business. Often at Walmart I can get twice the product for half the cost. Through economy of scale products can be sold for much less, bringing real wealth to ordinary people.

Walmart pays the prevailing wage. If all those employees were grossly underpaid wouldn’t they quit and find work elsewhere? Do you really think mom and pop businesses pay their help more?

Rather than enrich a handful of small-town merchants I prefer to shop where prices are lower and I can share in the profits.

@SeaGreenEyez The Walton family does own half of the stock, which means that they are very wealthy indeed. Their wealth however is not causing anyone else to be poor. Their assets are largely reinvested in ventures around the world—ventures that create real wealth for humanity. In terms of goods and services I doubt if the Waltons actually consume much more than the average person. They are, in fact, instrumental in creating much more real wealth than they consume.

If all the Walton assets were confiscated and redistributed just in the US, each American would receive about $500. It is certainly causing envy in some circles and some people are greedily licking their chops in anticipation.

That is some kind of twisted logic that says Walmart is costing the American taxpayers by hiring part-time workers. I sometimes hire a neighbor to do day labor, and he also gets SNAP are you saying that I am costing the American taxpayers the amount of his SNAP payments? That makes no sense. By hiring part time workers Walmart spreads wealth to more people. No one is making people work at Walmart.

BTW, I know some people who work at Walmart and they are full-time workers—have been for years and they like their jobs. New hires might be part-time for awhile, but you can bet they wouldn’t hire on if it wasn’t in their interest to do so. To think otherwise is very disrespectful.

@SeaGreenEyez Apologize??? What did I write that could possibly be construed as an apology? Are you alright?

You seem very fixed in your opinions, probably because of left-leaning media propaganda. I doubt if you’ll read this but here it is and I am through with this conversation.

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@SeaGreenEyez, this one's for you:

@WilliamFleming She was using the word "apology" as in a rhetorical defense. "a reasoned argument or writing in justification of something,"

You might consider there is right wing media propaganda that the facts simply do not support. Or don't consider it. But repeating it again and again doesn't make it so.

@WilliamFleming, @mcgeo52, @SeaGreenEyez

When Tucker Carlson sees a problem in the market that grossly benefits the super rich and shafts everyone else, there is a problem. He can hardly be called "left leaning propaganda".

@greyeyed123 OK, so in that sense I was writing an apology, but I’m not convinced that she was using the word in that sense. She compared it to apologizing for rape, which would be be the regular kind of apology for an offense.

Of course there is right-wing media propaganda. I am not coming from that kind of platform and I never look at such stuff knowingly.

However, facts are facts and they can be ferreted out and verified. Hyperbole and exaggeration based on envy, fear and grievances stirred up by the media should always be answered with true assertions. The truth is that Walmart compensates it’s regular employees as well or better than similar retailers. If you click on the link you’ll see what I mean. The fact that they use part-time help means nothing except that by hiring those folks they are throwing them a lifeline. It is extremely disrespectful of people to think that they would work for a company when it was not in their best interest to do so.

If you want to generate REAL poverty and homelessness start shutting down these dreadful Walmart’s.

@greyeyed123 There is a basic problem with this idea that taxpayers are supporting corporations by giving SNAP to part-time workers. The workers NEED and want those part-time jobs. Without those jobs even MORE tax money would be shelled out, and many of the people would be living on the street.

I asked a question above and it was ignored. I have a neighbor who sometimes does day labor and he receives SNAP. If I hire him occasionally does that mean that I am cheating the taxpayers because of his SNAP payments and that I should be made to hire him full-time? The idea is ludicrous.

I never watch Fox and I know nothing of this Tucker guy, but I do have some basic common sense about economics.

@WilliamFleming I'm sure you are very sincere in your views.

@SeaGreenEyez Thanks, I apologize.

@SeaGreenEyez I don’t think it is correct to use apologia or apology in the sense you are talking about as anything other than a noun, and then only as a word for a formal written defense of one’s position.

Regardless, if someone wants a part time job and Walmart wants to hire them it is no one else’s business, and their having a part time job does not cost the taxpayers a solitary dime. If anything it is SAVING the taxpayers because having income means that whatever SNAP they receive might be reduced.

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What costs the taxpayers money is the horde of government workers with plush union jobs. Many of those jobs contribute nothing to society.

Plenty of evidence of scholarly active with this President. Glad it worked for him!

I am now weaning myself. Also afraid of copy cat shooters.

@SeaGreenEyez It's a nice distraction though, with the illusion of doing something

I used to play Monopoly and I am not a property magnate. I also used to play Cluedo and I’m not a successful detective. No correlations for me!

If this was 30 or 40 years ago, they'd be blaming it on Rock music. And 20 years ago, Harry Potter would be sincerely blamed in some quarters.

@greyeyed123 Well, I could blame Harry Potter. Anybody that mangles Latin that badly could get up to anything.

Similar to years ago when they wouldn't sell "Maxim" magazine because it was immoral, but continued selling guns.