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Just how stupid are those repuglican goons that run wallymart??!!
I once worked for a company run by a bunch of rich repuglican scumbags. Even though the average pay of a "real worker" who actually built products in the dirty, unsafe, un air-conditioned, chemically contaminated factory was about $8.75/hour they thought that was too much of cut for those greedy, unwashed masses and did everything (and I mean everything) in their power, constantly pushing the limits of legality, to make sure the employees got less, and no benefits for more and more work. They actually rationalize that the workers don't deserve decent pay because they are a bunch of chumps and are fundamentally inferior. If they weren't such losers they have their own companies! (The guy who owned the company inherited it by the way. He never did an honest days work in his life).
They did all kinds of ridiculous, borderline illegal and outright illegal stunts to "suggest" that we needed to vote for repuglicans or all kinds of terrible liberal monsters would come out from under our beds at night and take our guns away and make us marry a gay communist Muslim terrorist that hate us for our freedom.
Some examples of their favorite tactics:
-Creepy, vaguely threatening letters attached to our paychecks TELLING us how to vote and what would happen if we didn't... take their "advice". (a fav our CFO)
-Mandatory meeting where the pompous owner of the company would lecture us about voting repuglican. That is when he was not vacationing 4 months out of the year in the Cayman islands (I shit you not!)
-Mandatory meetings where some repuglican candidate would give a speech (your jaw would drop at just how slimey and "in the pocket" of corrupt business owners all of these politicians were. It was clear that if elected they would represent the wishes the business owners not the employees).
So, you rightly ask, why are they so stupid??
Because they never seem to realize that as much as they despised the workers of the company, the workers hated them more! No one except the religious fundamentalists (if you told them that Lucifer was running for president of the united states and that said prince of evil had declared he was "pro-life" they would vote 100% for Lucifer 100% of the time no matter how badly they would be treated under the rule of hell on earth. These people are brain washed and will always vote like their right wing "holy men" tell them to.) would vote for the repuglican clowns.
PS:(every time I hear that some "family owned business" needs help, or is so nice and benevolent because they are "family owned" I want to vomit. The aforementioned company was family owned by a bunch of rich self-centered scumbags that cheated employees, each other, business associates and suppliers. They were all members of the local fundamentalist mega church, (six flags over Jesus the real people call it) that regularly runs repuglican rallies... and some how remains tax exempt... WTF. I've also worked for large corporations and without exception the large corporations, which are jaw dropingly evil in their own right, were more ethical and professionally run than any "small business")
When I see the anti-union drivel written by you I have to wonder if you are just being dishonest or are really stupid enough to believe what you have just said.
Wal-Mart absolutely does take money involuntarily from its employees and send it to the repuglican party! How you ask? Why, they don't have line item on the paycheck itemizing a withholding for donation to the repuglican party so how do they accomplish this??????
Well let me explain with an example (read slowly elphantman just in case you are stupid and not just dishonest):
Jane (can't afford health insurance or tuition for her or her kids) Doe#1, hard working Wal-Mart employee makes $6.55/hour. But because Wal-Mart keeps the scary Union away that wants to take her money she does not have to make the relatively small contributions to a union.
Jane (can afford health insurance and tuition for her kids) Doe#2, hard working Wal-Mart employee makes $13.10/hour. But wait a second! She belongs to an evil union that helps her fight for decent healthcare, negotiate with the company for better pay and working conditions. That evil bunch of do gooders! (of which she is one since unions ARE the employees) wants her to contribute $23/month (national average). That's about 13 cents an hour of her pay! The horror!
So compared to Jane Doe#2, Jane Doe#1 has $6.42/hr taken out of her FAIR pay by Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart takes $6.42/hour of her pay without her consent and sends millions to the repuglican party so repuglicans can pass legislation that is harmful to Jane Doe#1 and her family(what's she going to do about it anyway, she complains and Wally mart fires her.) A union would take $.13/hour which it will use to negotiate with the fine people who run Wallyworld which will net Jane an additional $6.42/hour.
Another point for the dishonest and just plain stupid repuglicans:
Jane Doe #1 cannot afford to buy the dishwashers, cars, building supplies, rugs, clothes etc, etc that are manufactured in the US by fellow US citizens. That is very bad for US business, profits go down, business and wealth move to China.
Jane Doe#2 can afford to buy appliances, cars, clothes for her children, pay her doctor etc, etc. This is very good for US business, profits go up, pay goes up, everyone wins. This is a longer term approach. If you are greedy and want to maximize SHORT TERM profits this is not the way to go, if that's what you want you need to run a sweat shop, run it into the ground then get out of the business with a big wad of cash and let everyone else eat cake!
This gets at the core of what is wrong with the repuglican party... Short sightedness, selfishness and greed.