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Rigged Economy: Working People Subsidize Walmart... While Walmart Subsidizes Hillary Clinton. (Original Post) AzDar May 2016 OP
Kicking For Truth... AzDar May 2016 #1
This was a great point that needs to be made over and over. Alex4Martinez May 2016 #2
$900,000 to $1.8 million in public aid Mnpaul May 2016 #3
The Walton Family... America's REAL Welfare 'Queens'. AzDar May 2016 #4
Money for political candidates, money for cruise ship sized yachts Mnpaul May 2016 #5
great point. Cheese Sandwich May 2016 #6
Kick azmom May 2016 #7
Workers are simply chattel in the 3rd Way economy... Yurovsky May 2016 #8
The Love for Walmart is Buy Partisan Octafish May 2016 #9

Mnpaul

(3,655 posts)
3. $900,000 to $1.8 million in public aid
Mon May 16, 2016, 10:29 PM
May 2016

go to the workers at one Walmart Supercenter in Wisconsin. The numbers were compiled using public records. It appears that the report from the congressional Dems is no longer online or has been moved.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/walmart-taxpayers-house-report_n_3365814.html

Mnpaul

(3,655 posts)
5. Money for political candidates, money for cruise ship sized yachts
Mon May 16, 2016, 10:40 PM
May 2016

but no money for the people who earn you that money. It makes me sick with disgust.

Yurovsky

(2,064 posts)
8. Workers are simply chattel in the 3rd Way economy...
Mon May 16, 2016, 11:37 PM
May 2016

HRC doesn't have time to listen to their incessant whining...

WalMart could shoot their workers and she might defend them. She's been on the WalMart gravy train for DECADES. She has personally profited from some of the worst worker exploitation this side of Shanghai.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
9. The Love for Walmart is Buy Partisan
Tue May 24, 2016, 12:40 PM
May 2016


Important history from 1992 campaign:



Bush Ventures to Clinton Turf, Honors Sam Walton

Republicans: The trip to Arkansas is billed as nonpolitical. The gravely ill Wal-Mart founder is given the Medal of Freedom.

by Douglas Jehl
Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1992

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — On the day Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton emerged as the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination, President Bush visited the governor's home state on a trip he insisted had nothing to do with politics.

Bush made the journey to present the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to one of its richest men, Sam Walton, the gravely ill 73-year-old founder of Wal-Mart Stores.

SNIP...

Walton, who built the Wal-Mart empire from one store to a $9-billion fortune, now is confined to a wheelchair, and Bush choked up during the ceremony at the company's headquarters in Bentonville as he praised the entrepreneur as an emblem of "America's success."

"I think it's important that all Americans understand that some things are going very, very well in the United States of America," Bush said. "And one of those things is Wal-Mart."

SNIP...

Wal-Mart has retained its Arkansas roots even as it has grown beyond the region. The chain also has links to the Clintons--the governor's wife, Hillary, has a substantial financial stake in the company and serves on its board of directors.

Walton's family has generously supported many of Clinton's past campaigns. This year, Walton has contributed the legal maximum of $1,000 to both Clinton and Bush.

CONTINUED...

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-18/news/mn-3841_1_sam-walton



Walmart continued to grow since then, making the heirs of Sam Walton very wealthy. Most everone else in the USA has not done so well.
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