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posted November 19, 2013 12:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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Activists have long criticized Walmart for failing to pay its employees living wages, and instead relying on the state to step in and pay for the healthcare and food of workers. In Canton, Ohio, another Walmart recently demonstrated this kind of corporate welfare by holding a food drive—for its own employees.

“Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner,” reads a sign accompanied by several plastic bins.

Understandably, the food drive has sparked outrage in the area.

“That Walmart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers—to me, it is a moral outrage,” Norma Mills, a customer at the store, told the Plain Dealer.


http://www.thenation.com/blog/177241/cleveland-wal-mart-holds-food-drive-its-own-employees


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posted November 19, 2013 11:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's some audacity.

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posted November 19, 2013 11:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wal Mart has to live under GOVERNMENTAL regulations.

Wake up, Low Information Voters and smell the coffee

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posted November 19, 2013 12:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Walmart is hardly struggling against regulations, Low Info Ami, and their workers are needing foodstamps and medical assistance to survive. Though disgust has turned to expression thru avoiding their stores, their profits are still more than enough, if they are so sympathetic, to give a small bonus to each and every employee so they don't have to rely on customers (whose taxes are already subsidizing Walmart's low wages by paying for state benefits) for their Xmas dinner.

You might understand this if you ever ventured out of your Versailles shepherd's folly, but Walmart and their owners are doing just fine. However, if they keep pulling stunts like this they may lose so much business through Boycott that they wish they had been less like Scrooge and M.Antoinette and more like Costco.

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posted November 19, 2013 01:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I watched a news clip on it and it seems it is for special circumstances/individuals and not workers in general. The same store in Canton did the same thing last year for a single mother who lost her child support.

As most without parasitic paranoia knows, it has nothing to do with govermental regulations.

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posted November 19, 2013 02:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As most without parasitic paranoia knows, it has nothing to do with govermental regulations.

That is not nice.

I am quoting that

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posted November 19, 2013 03:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Lol is it nice calling those you don't like morons? That is what Rush means by "low info voters" - for your information...he has said so himself so I assume you, who follow in his wake, knew that already.

I, however, use it literally...you are very low on info since you prefer the reader's digest version handed you by Limbaugh et co. Yet you persist in insulting people for disagreeing with you...sigh.

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posted November 19, 2013 03:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Lol is it nice calling those you don't like morons? That is what Rush means by "low info voters" - for your information...he has said so himself so I assume you, who follow in his wake, knew that already.

I, however, use it literally...you are very low on info since you prefer the reader's digest version handed you by Limbaugh et co. Yet you persist in insulting people for disagreeing with you...sigh.


You, on the other hand, are sweetness and light

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posted November 19, 2013 06:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Low information voters are those who vote with their hearts and little knowledge of actual events. They are not morons; nor is it Rush's intent to imply such. I call them "feel good" voters.

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posted November 19, 2013 07:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well according to Rush he uses the term because calling people Morons is not acceptable to the PC folk...I heard him myself, and I don't listen to him as much as either if you.

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posted November 19, 2013 07:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Most people, by virtue of being onlookers who really aren't in possession of a lot of facts, are "low info" voters. I consider Rush, who mostly spouts his opinion, to be one of them. His bias is so strong its apparent to those who aren't "desensitized". He gets a majority of his "facts" from Drudge, puts them through a predictable filter, then calls them the lowdown the rest of us being unable to figure thing out for ourselves... But Drudge is a talking.points creator, not a f act dispensary

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posted November 19, 2013 08:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree. I don't think most of the Conservatives I know should be trying to get away with applying that particular label.

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posted November 20, 2013 08:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Randall:
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Low information voters are those who vote with their hearts and little knowledge of actual events. They are not morons; nor is it Rush's intent to imply such. I call them "feel good" voters.


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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
I agree. I don't think most of the Conservatives I know should be trying to get away with applying that particular label.

AG,
I don`t think many conservatives do but right wingers are hot to trot for the term.

Randall, proofs in the pudding:

Limbaugh added that Obama is "a symbol of the new low-information America" and "it's only a low-information voter -- we used to call them morons -- that could think he's outside politics." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 12/19/12, via Media Matters]


http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/01/07/25-examples-that-prove-rush-limb augh-is-a-low-i/192085

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posted November 20, 2013 09:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For what it`s worth

Low info voter or LIV

Meaning

Some low-information voters' views are more moderate than those of high-information voters, they are less likely to vote, and are looking for a candidate they find personally appealing. They tend to be swing voters, and they tend to vote split-ticket more than well-informed voters do, researchers say because they lack a coherent ideology

Linguist George Lakoff has written that the term is a pejorative mainly used by American liberals to refer to people who vote conservative against their own interests, and assumes they do it because they lack sufficient information. Liberals, he said, attribute the problem in part to deliberate Republican efforts at misinforming voters.
Thirty-year Republican House of Representatives and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren, in a 2011 article titled "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult", characterized low-information voters as anti-intellectual and hostile-to-science "religious cranks", and claimed Republicans are deliberately manipulating LIVs to undermine their confidence in American democratic institutions.

A 2012 paper by six American political scientists called "A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics" challenged the idea that Republicans want a low-information electorate, and argued instead that both major American parties do. Noting that 95% of incumbents in the highly polarized House of Representatives win re-election despite voters' preference for centrist representation, the paper theorizes that voters' infrequent penalizing of extremist behaviour represents not approval, but a lack of attention and information. This, the paper says, is supported by the fact that when congressional districts and media markets overlap to create more informed electorates, extremist House members are at much greater risk for defeat. The paper proposes that in the American political system, interest groups, and activists are the key actor, and the electorate is uninformed and bamboozled

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_information_voter

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posted November 20, 2013 04:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't often give wiki props these days. They are often corrupted by editing from different factions.

But in cut and dry cases such as this they are pretty good.

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This, the paper says, is supported by the fact that when congressional districts and media markets overlap to create more informed electorates, extremist House members are at much greater risk for defeat. The paper proposes that in the American political system, interest groups, and activists are the key actor, and the electorate is uninformed and bamboozled

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posted November 20, 2013 04:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
as to the OT

Many economists have written papers of how wally world could pay a decent wage without compromising the bottom line, or! the investor.

cat mentioned COST CO and they are a prime example, of treating the employee to a living wage and benefits. How are they rewarded? With content, loyal workers and a fab bottom line.

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posted November 20, 2013 04:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just went to Costco this morning.

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posted November 21, 2013 10:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Since when is it wrong to help people have a good holiday season?

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posted November 22, 2013 06:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted November 22, 2013 08:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Since when is it wrong to help people have a good holiday season?

The lefties make what is wrong what serves their purposes

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posted November 22, 2013 11:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Waltons could take care of any employee's special need directly for perpetuity, but yeah it's more appropriate to leave the task to poor people who can relate more with having financial issues.

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The Waltons employ them, which is more than enough, since having a job in this time of Obomanomics is a blessing. Liberals only like giving when it's them coming up with the idea...and when there's lots of publicity. America is based on free market capitalism, which means that you don't get six figures for being a cashier. Wake up, Socialists.

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When you run a billion dollar publically traded company, then you can give away all of the corporate profits to the poor and go out of business.

Walmart gives so many people jobs that they keep the economy afloat. I can't believe you actually work for a bank.

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The Waltons could take care of any employee's special need directly for perpetuity, but yeah it's more appropriate to leave the task to poor people who can relate more with having financial issues.

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That is some self serving bs there. I thought you were a Linda Goodman fan. Paying people a pittance so they need foodstamps paid for by the taxpayer is Scrooge territory. Turning around and asking them to donate to the hardest up among them instead if giving Holiday bonuses is an insult.

Half of everything left after you've made yourself comfortable will bring even more your way - remember? Not paying the least you can get away with for services rendered...

Many companies the conservatives feel sorry for here and "protect" from higher wages not only pau a good deal more abroad for the same jobs, but enjoy higher profit margins there too.

Since when is the US here to protect corporations frpm the workers? They are not suffering but showing RECORD PROFITS though people are more and more finding they don't need Walmarts anymore. The cheap price tags are too costly in other ways.

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The Waltons employ them, which is more than enough, since having a job in this time of Obomanomics is a blessing. Liberals only like giving when it's them coming up with the idea...and when there's lots of publicity. America is based on free market capitalism, which means that you don't get six figures for being a cashier. Wake up, Socialists.


So true! Well said!

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