Walmart Greeter Buys 6-Pack of Beer & Is Condemned

[redqueen]

http://janedevin.com/2012/07/19/walmart-greeter-condemned/

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If you want to see a good portion of the middle-class get truly incensed, don’t show them the tax returns of companies raking in billions of dollars in profits while paying nothing—zero—in taxes. Don’t show them a 20-something trust-fund beneficiary who sleeps until noon and parties all night. No, show them a Walmart greeter with a missing front tooth paying for food with an EBT card and then shelling out $6 in cash for beer. Show them a harried working mother of two on food stamps who has the audacity—the nerve—to splurge on an $11 manicure once a month. These are the things that truly invoke the wrath of The People.

There’s a judgmental moral code for the poor which has no parallel in the land of the rich.

1) The poor should never be lazy, even if sick or underfed. They are to work hard, persevere, and overcome any and all obstacles that come their way, no matter how few or absent their resources.

2) The poor should always keep in mind that they are poor, and therefore undeserving of enjoyment, frivolity, or the keeping any bad habits (no weekend six-packs or potato chips).

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[arcane1]

1. People love to hate on the poor, but never a word about the jobs that keep them that way

No anger toward WalMart when they pay so little that an employee is eligible for food stamps in the first place.

[redqueen]

2. Gotta love the bourgeois tools of the .1%

And by 'love', I mean 'have seething contempt for'.

[nichomachus]

3. I'm more offended that a WalMart employee has to be on public assistance

What ever happened to the concept of paying a living wage?

[arcane1]

4. In some places they even instruct their employees on how to collect public assistance

One more way they use taxpayers to subsidize their business

[riverbendviewgal]

5. good post.

people must be aware of judging others..and remember there for the grace of God I may have gone.

Judge not, that you be not judged. Matthew 7:1

I am not religious but do like to quote this to those who are so judgmental.

[limpyhobbler]

6. k/r

People love to hate the poor.


I copied this quote because I want to remember it for later.

I’ve worked harder, smarter, and more diligently than you. I’ve made better choices. I’ve earned and deserve everything I have. If you have not achieved my same status it’s because you’re lazy, dumb, and irresponsible