And the beat goes on and on. The Arizona Daily Sun has a report out today that one out of every ten Wal-Mart employees is on public assistance for health care. And that's not bad compared to some states.
This dovetails nicely with other reports from other parts of the country saying essentially the same thing. And (brace yourself for a surprise!) many of the states where this is most common are also actively hostile labor environments!
No!
Yes! (it makes me puke to link to those people)
My favorite statistic: In Georgia, there are more than 10,000 children of Wal-Mart on public aid. The next largest company is Publix, a grocery store chain at 714 children. That means that there are 14 times more children of Wal-mart employees on public assistance than the next biggest company. It translates into one kid on welfare for every four employees.
It must be those 'competitive wages' the Waltons keep bragging about.
Wal-Mart. Always low standards of human freaking decency. Always.
PS: Archpundit had a post up yesterday about Dems who shop at Sam's Club (motto--just like wal-mart, but more sterile!).
I know this is a touchy issue for some, but that's tough shit. Wal-Mart is not a force for good in the modern economy. It's time we acted like adults and faced up to it.
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