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China is most likely to let the currency rise before Hu Jintao visits the US in january. this will lead to higher prices for Walmart.
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why do shitty minimum wage jobs always pay higher in the suburbs than they do in NYC?
traditionally cuz city employees know that the people working those jobs are living in the projects and getting benefits. city minimum wage tho now might go up, but in the suburbs will mostly like go down thanks to section 8
*rob*
Regarding moving to where the jobs are, one of the big problems with the real estate crash is that if your house is seriously under water, you can’t move…..or you CAN at the risk of losing everything you put down on your house OR walking away, declaring bankrupcy and ruining your credit rating which makes renting a problem. You could live in a trailer but there are no real trailer parks near major job markets.
i.e. Life is shitty if you are broke, have no job and worse, if you have a piece of crapola under water property.
“I’ve already typed this somewhere on here, but the real problem isn’t what Walmart pays their employees. I think the real problem is with the wholesale price they demand from suppliers. Given their size, bigger than Kmart and Target combined, they have a big impact on the supply chain.”
Basically they drive jobs out of the US and into China. Rubbermaid was a perfect example of that.
lots of those retailers are sucky employers including target. they are slow so they send you home early. etc, etc. Lower you are on pay scale worse you get treated.
Did everyone see the party announcement today on the Forum? Really terrific!
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oh and women who work at walmart with kids can get free healthcare, very cheap housing, and food stamps. so technically combined with their walmart income, all those freebie government welfare benefits FAR exceed people making like twice to three times their walmart subsisidy.
*rob*
There are so many Wal-Mart equivalents out there that liberals don’t hate on. They just don’t like Wal-Mart because it’s big and crass and cheap and that offends their limousine liberal sensibilities. It’s not because they actually give a fuck about poor people (other than writing the occasional check to a charity that is).
To all you Wal-Mart haters: how many minimum wage workers do you actually know? And you don’t get to claim you know them unless they have been in your house recently, or vice versa.