[The Don]

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"It's the same people who hate WalMart. You know, because it's Walmart's fault they are hiring low-wage, low-skilled workers with few opportunities for any other kind of work and are paying them accordingly. Yeah, it's WalMart's fault.

You can't get through to someone who ignores facts and denies reality. "

natedogg your post is a joke. How can anyone argue with what you say here, 'it's wal-mart's fault for hiring low wage work'. That is a tricky pathetic way to state your case. It's stupid to argue against that, that's the nature of our capatalist society, your point means nothing. What is bad is that someone can work full time and still be below the poverty line.

"In the Dec. 16 New York Review of Books, Simon Head, director of the Project on Technology and the Workplace at the Century Foundation, stated, "the average pay of a sales clerk [italics mine] at Wal-Mart was $8.50 an hour, or about $14,000 a year, $1,000 below the government's definition of the poverty level for a family of three."

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These people's skills are valued by Wal-Mart at a rate of $8.50 an hour. Do you believe that they should be paid more just because they fall below the arbitrary "poverty line" (how can some bureaucrat in Washington really define this?). Nobody is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to work at Wal-Mart. Maybe they can find one of these magical corporations where they will be paid above their market value at the expense of the profitability of the business (would there be any point in starting a business and providing goods/services if this were the case?). Actually, this is possible in a multitude of government jobs.