Choose to take a job? How out of touch are these people?
@TrentonR
5 жыл бұрын
Matt Peters I thought the same thing
@Doctor_Subtilis
4 жыл бұрын
They aren't out of touch at all, it's rhetorical self-preservation. They understand what's going on better than any of us.
@IoNs.Stonio
8 жыл бұрын
Bernie Sanders is awesome. He is the only politician that we can trust, and I will proudly vote for him.
@fireeye33
6 жыл бұрын
Antonio Contreras should’ve seen his new mansions and sports cars he got from the election money for allowing Hillary to run lol...trustworthy huh?!
@John-sg5un
26 күн бұрын
It's now July 2024. Bernie is desperately what the US has needed for many years... meaning as POTUS. If President Biden decides to drop out the 2024 Presidential election against DT I truly believe Bernie should be offered the office of the Presidency. I've followed Bernie's public service for circa 40 years & yes without a doubt he's the most qualified. The US needs real fair & equitable change - not just the status quo - Bernie is the only person who IMO that can make the US a fair and respected country once again.
@lukenuetzmann
10 жыл бұрын
When I worked at Walmart for 2 weeks, I worked there because my only other option was no work at all. As soon as another job came a long a promptly left their employ. I have yet to meet a single person (including management) that works at Walmart because they want to, rather they simply have very few options in terms of employment.
@AlekseyVolchek
10 жыл бұрын
That's a GREAT point ... and no one is attacking them for being that kind of job provider. But that should NOT be an excuse for them to marginalize their worker to such a profit squeeze that MY FUCKING TAX money goes towards picking up Walmart's slack. That's what is being talked about. Let's not change subjects here. ok?
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
You have to start somewhere. If you have limited skills to sell in the job market then you have to take the low paying job.
@sdp9675
10 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 That isn't the point. The point is that the average taxpayer has to shell out over $5800 per year, per Wal-mart employee ( food stamps, etc) because Wal-mart is so cheap. Despite the fact that the Wal-mart heirs combined net worth is around $90 BILLION! Too much money? Too much is never enough!
@CrisVangel1958
10 жыл бұрын
Aleksey Volchek They are funneling our tax money right into their pockets. I say we boycott them. I would never shop there anyway.
@Meex1989
10 жыл бұрын
UPS has a large rate of employee turnover, due to how physically demanding the job is, however they pay $10/hr, and nobody really gets fired, everyone quits on their own. There are plenty of other places than Walmart.
@buffalo_chips9538
9 жыл бұрын
minimum wages is your boss telling you I'd pay you less but I'm not allowed to.
@whyamimrpink78
9 жыл бұрын
Buffalo_Chips They can always choose not to hire you. A wage means that your boss sees you as an investment and is willing to take a financial risk on you. And if you prove your worth then you will get a raise in some way, either from that boss or a competitor if your boss refuses to pay more.
@aleche96
9 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 It must be nice to see your boss declares your worth as an unlivable value.
@whyamimrpink78
9 жыл бұрын
aleche96 Yep, I was so bad off that I had to pay my $6000 car with on payment, no loans. Man, my boss made it hard for me.
@CriminalGameplay
9 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 What happens when the "competitors" are actually allies behind doors and decide how much they pay their employees without having to compete with each other?
@whyamimrpink78
9 жыл бұрын
CriminalGameplay Even if there are allies there will be someone who is going to go against the group and work to their advantage. They will pay more to bring in better employees and have a more successful business. That one CEO will be considered "greedy" by his "allies". You see, greed is good.
@starwarshq
10 жыл бұрын
Starvation wages is an excellent term. I never usually post about this kind of thing, but I thought you all might have fascinating opinions. Time to start the discussion.
@BlindlyLooking
10 жыл бұрын
Ridiculous responses by all of them, especially the one who said "It's their choice." Really? Is it? I guess they'd like you to lower the minimum wage, moron. Also, the other idiot who just threw the old "try to better yourself" nonsense. I hope this man runs for President, but I doubt the corporate thugs will allow it.
@BlindlyLooking
10 жыл бұрын
***** Except maybe Reich*
@LynneHand
10 жыл бұрын
***** - It's more like "The Empire Wakes Up".
@fredosinsemilla3896
10 жыл бұрын
***** Or even more like "the plebs are waking up, the patricians are getting sweaty". :o)
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
Yep, we need to solve the problem of raising food prices and inflation.
@lloydtatum6629
9 жыл бұрын
Aparna Mathur honestly thinks that all WalMart employees work there because that is where they choose to work? Their employees, for the most part, work there because it is either the only job available to them or the only work they could get with their high school or less education level.
@ImperatorAvgvstvs
9 жыл бұрын
Lloyd Tatum You're crazy. Who wouldn't aspire to be a Walmart "associate"? /s
@buffalo_chips9538
9 жыл бұрын
Lloyd Tatum excused me but I know college graduates working at walmart as floor sales
@DanWH1984
9 жыл бұрын
Lloyd Tatum Exactly, and Wal-Mart has driven away all of the small businesses because of their low prices on corporate products that they can purchase a mass quantity of. These products are also usually of low quality and from China.
@gmarefan
8 жыл бұрын
+Buffalo_Chips That's probably the only job available to them part.
@themaritimegirl
10 жыл бұрын
The anecdote at 6:00 was the most asinine thing I've ever heard. I'd almost bet that NOBODY willingly decides to work at Walmart, and for many people it's literally their ONLY choice.
@HardcoreGrady
10 жыл бұрын
That's what bugs the most is that they're obviously just spewing bullshit, and they've done for so long that they probably even believe their own outlandish claims. All they ever do is simply present a hypothesis. They never present any evidence to prove their reasonings, but still attempt to solve problems as if their hypothesis is correct.
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
If the only job you can get is at walmart than you need to find a way to change that.
@CrimsonCorona10
10 жыл бұрын
HardcoreGrady Against the rules of the Scientific Method? Interesting
@One-eyedFats
10 жыл бұрын
*****: Way to spout the company BS. There is no excuse paying so little that MANY of your workers are classified as 'the working poor' who qualify for state-assisted benefits. No excuse at all.
@toofuairi
10 жыл бұрын
***** I worked for a local Walmart, I worked there for 7 months, I worked part time, as i am trying my hand at bettering myself through college education, I worked weekends, fri-sun. I was an assembler, I put bikes together. I enjoyed the job, it was something physical, something similar to lego and I was happy to help customers. I was not happy with, not having a direct manager for 5 of those months, instead I was thrown about to whomever was on shift as the position of my direct manager was not filled, this caused not only issues in my performance, but general annoyance. I did not enjoy being worked over like a pawn, expected to build 12+ bikes in an 8 hour shift, AS WELL AS zoning an entire aisle, and doing odd jobs as per which ever manager I was given to for the day/weekend, I was also co opted to push carts for more than 1 hour nearly each day i worked. All this and the full time assembler, the guy who trained me in, changed positions 1/3 of the way through, leaving me alone, a part time employee to do the work of a full timer in half the amount of time. I was late once, when my car ran out of gas, it was literally leaking gas. I never once spoke ill about or to customers. I honestly filled out my timesheets, staying past my normal clock out had i run long on lunch to get those 8 hours. During this time, due to the stress I was under, my grades failed, my body physically suffered, not from the labor, but from the stress, I would become ill without much issue, still went to work. I got paid 7.95 per hour. Tell me exactly how I chose not to make the most of my time at Walmart. I'd also like to point out, that I live in a rural area, walmart is the largest employer for 30 miles, and this walmart in question is a million dollar a day store...
@preston9189
8 жыл бұрын
I've worked at Walmart (no longer now, luckily) and it doesn't matter that most of there employees work for minimum wage, they always have the bare minimum of employees possible. If minimum wage was increased, that couldn't force them to cut jobs because it's impossible to cut more than they already have. Plus, Costco doesn't seem to have trouble not treating their employees like dog shit, I don't see why it's an excuse for a company as rich as Walmart. Of course, this is just my experience at one Wal-Mart and it could be different store to store. But seeing how the decisions weren't from my immediate management and from the "higher ups", I doubt it.
@preston9189
8 жыл бұрын
+Preston B And if people could choose where to work, they would not work at Walmart (at least the sales associates).
@boenktommy9030
8 жыл бұрын
*Check below, i have the official link to get $100 coupons to use at Walmart* twitter.com/CouponsAuctions/status/708922193594478593
@truthcantbesilenced4533
9 жыл бұрын
Let's end this ignorant debate. if you are the richest person in America and you pay your employees so terrible they need welfare. You should have everything taken from you. greed and trash do not belong on earth any longer ^
@whyamimrpink78
9 жыл бұрын
Ok, pay the employees more and hire less. There is a tradeoff.
@melissaholden7512
9 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 They don't NEED to "hire less" they are filthy rich!!!
@Probabalisticplane
9 жыл бұрын
Melissa Holden Exactly
@stickman2012
9 жыл бұрын
Go to Walmart....notice the 30 registers when only 4 of them are open. Then get back to me about "hiring less." Because it seems to me they aren't "hiring enough."
@Probabalisticplane
9 жыл бұрын
Firms like Walmart would still make a lot of money if they paid their workers a living wage, albeit possibly less. There has to be a point where the public says enough is enough, making exceptionally high wages off the misery of your workers is highly unethical. These are human beings, many of them are the main breadwinners for their family. The problem is, it's a catch 22, workers who work in low wage jobs are often maligned and stigmatized as uncouth or stupid, yet for many spatially mismatched regions and cities, places like Walmart offer the only stable or part time employment. Our welfare system is set up to punish unemployment, it goes back the old English poor laws... the "Unworthy" poor are lazy and deserve less eligibility, Etc. Instead of trapping low wage workers in a situation that will likely never allow them to escape poverty with dignity and allow them to live a healthy life- why don't we pay them a living wage? No one working 40 hours a week, wasting all that time should be stuck in poverty in our very very very rich nation.
@RetrousseRaptor
9 жыл бұрын
What clowns the last two speakers were.
@mikeysoundtrack
9 жыл бұрын
My favorite was the last speaker: they should all aspire for management positions. 1.4 million managers...interesting.
@gmarefan
8 жыл бұрын
+Michael Rose not to mention a manager position is usually salary and you end up working 70 hours a week easy in the industry.
@5PYZ3R
8 жыл бұрын
+I am (Feather) and furthermore most managers are picked via social status, friendships, connections, etc.
@darrenpat182
8 жыл бұрын
+Virux thats why most of them are cunts, popularity stinks
@pretzelsandgasjets
10 жыл бұрын
I challenge anyone in either the Dems or (especially) the GOP to abandon the rhetoric and use the kind of evidence-based, logical debate which Sanders employs. I don't care if you agree with his points or not, but you can actually have a decently informed debate with the guy. That means something.
@beaelliott3209
10 жыл бұрын
No surprise that Walmart along with all large corporations externalize their costs by low wages. The mantra for mega-industries seems to be "let them eat cake" and we know how that turned out...
@Maxschellenberg
10 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@motab9907
10 жыл бұрын
to the guillotine
@BleedForTheWorld
10 жыл бұрын
Here's food for thought: How much is 100 billion dollars? 1 billion is like receiving 1 dollars, every second, from the day you are BORN until you are about 31 and a half years old. That is what 1 billion is like. Now multiply by 100.
@laleona61
10 жыл бұрын
How come in the whole minimum wage debate, the people who are *actually earning minimum wage* don't have a voice? There are always two groups debating the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage, but nobody who raises their hand and says, "Actually, *I* live off of minimum wage and this is what my life is like."
@SoulRippster
9 жыл бұрын
People can choose where to work? Do these people live in the real world?!... I'm thinking they are from Mars.
@LVL60Beltran
8 жыл бұрын
+SoulRippster the modern equivalent of, "let them eat cake"
@catsalive1
8 жыл бұрын
+SoulRippster What a joke. People chose to work at Wal-Mart. They didn't want that high paid easy job. LOL.
@loganladue2
8 жыл бұрын
+SoulRippster Walmart comes in and destroys local business with the low prices they have resulting for people losing their jobs at the local stores and forcing them to apply for walmart. That is how Walmart works and I know because I live in a city with 2 Super Centers and this is a small city. Walmart buys their stuff from China for $80, comes back to USA and resells it for $100 and that is a $19 per item in this example. It is very very rare that walmart employees will actually go up the latter so you will most likely stay at the $7.25 all the years you work there but if you stay on for 20 years, you might be making $8.25 an hour and will get a lifetime 10% discount card.
@ItinerantIntrovert
8 жыл бұрын
+SoulRippster I agree. Her answer is dusgusting.
@catsalive1
8 жыл бұрын
I work at Wal-Mart and I want to say not only do most of the younger employees have to rely on government programs despite their working hard hours up to 12 days in a row but the older employees who could normally work a normal job, will seek disability because they cannot handle the non-stop work at Wal-Mart. I have meet four older employees who literally could not handle, the no bathroom breaks and non-stop work. One out for kidney problems, one out for back problems, one out for leg problems. If you work at WM you are going to be moving constantly and lifting and with their creative, psychotic self serving to WM schedules and let's not forget their favoritism, the mental factor is another issue. I had 15 days in a row scheduled. I could not convince them to give me a day off. I called in sick one day which I had planned and now have my first coaching. Of course I am looking for something else at a sane company. No full time, just 5 and a half hours , 5 and a half, 5 and a half so you get one break. Wal-Mart thinks it is cute but to be honest, the demons are winning.
@ShakinJamacian
10 жыл бұрын
Bernie Sanders is perhaps the best man we have in politics. He is truly a man for people.
@TheOnlyZiTRO
10 жыл бұрын
sad thing is many people who speak out against the rich/powerful/corrupt like this disappear or end up "assassinated by a crazy person"...
@Starprizm
10 жыл бұрын
Some real-world perspective: at ENTRY LEVEL (no previous work experience), I was earning 10€ (13.59USD) per work hour in Finland, and up to 25€ (33.98USD) per work hour on weekends and holidays. Note that Finland has no minimum-wage laws, yet companies still provide adequate pay because of bargaining with government-empowered worker unions. Now that I live in New Zealand and work at minimum wage, I am earning 14.25NZD (12.45USD) per work hour, plus commissions which can take it up to 17NZD (14.85USD) per work hour on a good month, and sometimes even more. Thus, the arguments justifying low pay because you have to "start somewhere" are a steaming pile of shit. Not everybody has the luxury of having a parental safety net to protect them from the costs of living at entry level, so all entry level workers should be paid a wage they can live off. Not everybody has the luxury of being able to choose where they work; some people just have to take what they can, especially if they have themselves or others to fully support and do not have the skills for higher paying jobs (which is often due to no fault of their own, since skills take investment of time and money which they often do not have in the first place). Not everybody can move up the chain of command. The reason should be obvious - the ratio between managers and workers will always lean towards workers. Only one in ten (if that) will ever be able to actually move up. The only reason this is controversial at all is because Fox News and the like manage to generate enough extremist right-wing propaganda to saturate the bullshit filter of so many Americans who are otherwise good and reasonable people. I can say without fear of exaggerating that this is not controversial ANYWHERE ELSE in the First World. Probably not in a lot of the Second and Third World either.
@RichardVrong876
10 жыл бұрын
RepubloodSCUMs talking point - Dont like Walmart? find another job = No bread? Eat cake.
@MrCurlykid1
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bernie for your service. Congress needs more people like you.
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
Who? A career politician who clearly knows nothing about running a business or the economy? How come he doesn't complain that Google hires more? Or he is taking a third of my paycheck and is making $174,000/yr. of tax dollars? Sanders seemed to have a lot of people fooled.
@Gufberg
10 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 A career politician would neccesarily be one who worked with big business. Not against it. Why? Because thats where the money are. If you want to ensure reelection you need campaign funds - These are mostly found by parroting the interests of big business. Bernie Sanders does the exact opposite, hence he is unlikely to be a career politician.
@sdp9675
10 жыл бұрын
Gufberg Sanders won election in 1990 and hasn't lost a campaign in 22+ years and, in his most recent election (2012), got 71% of the vote. Your comment is wrong regarding Bernie Sanders (you're right about most of them, though).
@Gufberg
10 жыл бұрын
sdp9675 I'm sorry. I assumed he meant career politician in the sense that he only did it for the money. Sure, he is a career politician in the strictest sense of the word.
@SpandexSuperstarr
10 жыл бұрын
Bernie, you are a modern true hero!
@RegrowYourRootsDOTcom
10 жыл бұрын
Yes he is!
@Patri_Fides
8 жыл бұрын
I think it's disgusting that these people believe you should have to spend YEARS moving up the management ladder at an AWFUL job just to get to a livable wage. I'd like to see them or their kids work for Walmart for what they pay.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
The woman who says "workers CHOOSE to work at Walmarts..." What is wrong with this person? As if people have a "choice" in jobs in todays market. People are LUCKY to find a job, period. Why should we be subsidizing Walmart when they pay starvation wages, and they are owned by the richest family in this country? It's just unbelievable. This senator is just terrific. If only we had more like him.
@eathanm.2523
10 жыл бұрын
A living wage does NOT have to mean higher prices. That's a lie. The reason they're fighting a raise in the minimum wage is not that the price of a pair of socks or a burger or a toy will go up by $.02, but that their quarterly dividends or share prices might drop by $.02. Well here's the deal, nowhere is it written into law that taxpayers should foot the bill to ensure corporate profits. Second, the idea that it's okay to pay poverty wages because people are willing to work for them is absurd and no defense of corporate welfare. The question wasn't how cheap are people willing to work, but should taxpayers subsidize profits? My answer is no. As an employer, it's my job to take care of my employees so they can take care of my company. If I can't take care of them without taxpayer assistance then my business model is flawed.
@jmattbassplaya90
10 жыл бұрын
What dumbfounds me is how a company like McDonald's can raise their CEO's salary by 9 million dollars (which they did in 2011-2012, from 4 to 13 million) and not raise prices a cent, and then claim the next day they simply cannot raise their lowers workers' salaries by a buck or two an hour without raising prices astronomically. The math just doesn't work.
@icaru34
10 жыл бұрын
jmattbassplaya90 what the fuck does one even do with 13 million dollars a year? Let alone 4.
@rastus338
8 жыл бұрын
The sophistry of this panel is obscene. Why don't they just say, "Let them eat cake?"
@jermainelee1222
8 жыл бұрын
+BV Bill They won't say that because that statement cost Marie Antoinette her head when the dust settled. Outside of the second guy acknowledging the corporate welfare that Wal-Mart receives (excluding billions in outright tax breaks at the state and fed level) that whole panel was useless.
@darrenpat182
8 жыл бұрын
+Jermaine Lee they're not useless, they've all been "bought" America is a disgusting excuse of a country
@Leavon
10 жыл бұрын
I hate to admit it but Mr. Sanders is spot on here, wealth generation has not been appropriately distributed. While our dollar has shrunk in value and the amount of dollars earned by an individual has not increased to keep pace. The over all result is that more people are loosing ground on the wage distribution model and slipping into poverty. In essence the Rich get richer and the Poor get poorer.
@cryofpaine
10 жыл бұрын
Raising the minimum wage would help, but the first idiot actually had a point - raising the minimum wage without doing anything else just encourages the companies to find ways to compensate. Raising costs, hiring fewer workers, etc. The problem isn't that they aren't paying their workers enough, it's that they are paying themselves so much that there's nothing left for their workers. We need a minimum wage, but we also need a maximum wage. Put reasonable caps on the amount of money that shareholders and management can take from their companies, and force them to put the rest back into their employees' pockets. If pay is supposed to be a reflection of your work and your skills, as everyone likes to claim about capitalism, then how come your average CEO makes 300 times their average employee? Not the lowest, the average - the one that went to college and puts in a full work week. Is the CEO working 300 times more hours than that employee? Doubtful, since that's the equivalent of working 500 days in a single week. Are they 300 times more skilled than that employee? Again, doubtful since many of them didn't even go to college. Are they contributing 300 times more to the success of the company? 300 times more than the ones refining the designs and building the products and selling them and servicing their customers? Doubtful. Most people wouldn't even know who the CEO of any given company was, unless they were someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs - someone who was also a celebrity. Are they taking 300 times the financial risk of their employees? If a company folds, the CEO will probably not end up on the streets. They've got their money protected. Sure, they'll lose some. Maybe they have to move into a smaller mansion, sell off a car or a summer home. At worst, they end up middle class. Compare that to what happens to the average employee if their company folds. The one that was living paycheck to paycheck, the one who doesn't have much in savings, the one who is now forced to compete in a crowded job market with the other millions of people out of work. So no, they're not working 300 times harder, have 300 times the skills, contribute 300 times more to the success of their company, or take 300 times the risk, or any combination of all four that adds up to such an extreme amount. The only reason they make that much is because they control the wealth. They have practically a blank check to decide how much to pay themselves, and when you have that much control, of course you're going to pay yourself more than your worth. We need to have a reasonable scale. If you are working a full week, you should have enough money to have food on your plate, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a doctor when you are sick. The food might be top ramen, the clothes might be used, the roof might be a studio apartment, and the doctor might not be the best, but you have enough to survive. Hopefully even enough to improve your situation by going to school. If you have skills that are in demand, you should have a comfortable life. You can buy steak instead of ramen, new clothes instead of used, a nice house instead of a small apartment, and a good doctor that has the time to know patients more personally. And if you have a unique highly in demand skill or are an innovator or someone who can create jobs for others, you should be able to live a luxury lifestyle, with lobster and caviar, designer clothes, a mansion, and a private doctor. Money is the lifeblood of an economy. It needs to flow in order to have a healthy economy. When so much of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, there is no way they can keep that money flowing. The economy stagnates, and when you have a relatively minor hiccup like the housing bubble bursting, the economy has a stroke because too many people aren't in a position to survive the upset, which compounds the damage. We need to force the wealthy to put more of their money back into the economy by forcing them to put it into the hands of their employees.
@SaadSoCal
10 жыл бұрын
I wish there were more people like you in the Congress today.
@613and802
10 жыл бұрын
cryofpaine raising the minimum wage is a horrible idea.
@cryofpaine
10 жыл бұрын
613and802 I'm assuming you have something to base this opinion on. Care to share with the rest of the class?
@613and802
10 жыл бұрын
cryofpaine Absolutely! Wealth creation starts with jobs, and when the minimum wage goes up, employers can't afford to provide as many jobs.
@cryofpaine
10 жыл бұрын
613and802 Bullshit. They can afford to provide jobs, but they don't, because it would take away from their profits. The Waltons, the owners of Wal-Mart, have a net worth of 150 BILLION between them. That means that they could double their work force of two million employees, and still be worth over 100 Billion dollars. Even the lowest earning CEO on the Fortune 100 list, the head of Pier 1, could take 1/3 of his yearly salary and hire 288 workers at $10 an hour. That would be awfully painful for him though, I'm not sure how he would ever survive on only 12 million dollars a year. I mean, that's practically poverty levels right there. And there is evidence that minimum wage increases have no effect on the number of jobs. Researchers Arindrajit Dube, William Lester and Michael Reich did a study where they compared employment changes in countries that raised minimum wage to their neighbors, and found no difference. There was no negative impact to raising minimum wage.
@rob13731
10 жыл бұрын
Mr. Sanders, thank you. You're an amazing human, and a great Representative- not politician the difference being a politician will look out for their job and a Representative will look out for (her or) his constituents.
@Drakaran
10 жыл бұрын
It's the new Feudal system: barons and peasants
@NekoYuki
10 жыл бұрын
Look at the people dancing around the issue. Dancy dancy ladida! I like Secretary Reich there :)
@JasonGafar
7 жыл бұрын
6:28 - The mark of a leader. I had to re-watch that at least 10 times to see the sheer strength and heart of Sanders. So much admiration, respect, and love for him. So glad we have people like him in the world.
@emilieiggiotti
10 жыл бұрын
Robert Reich nailed it at 4:50. Again. Everyone should watch Inequality For All. Period.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
Emilie, there are no videos listed when I click on the link +Inequality For All" (in your comment) ???
@emilieiggiotti
10 жыл бұрын
Catherine Todd Check this out! inequalityforall.com/
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
Robert Reich doesn't know the difference between income and wealth. He is a partisan hack.
@CatherineSTodd
10 жыл бұрын
Emilie Iggiotti : Thanks, will do.
@ryandbertram
10 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 Reich is a partisan hack, BUT that doesn't me his point is invalid. The difference between a third world nation and a first world nation is the distribution of wealth. Look at any third world country and you don't really have a middle class. Either people are very well off or they are dirt poor.
@logicreason9770
9 жыл бұрын
Walmart is not the only major corporate retailer that does not pay a living wage. Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Best Buy, etc. are all top-earning retailers who are guilty of the same injustice as Walmart. It is systemic in the retail industry to hire workers as "part-time" and have them work up to 39 hours so that they don't have to offer any benefits. These workers earn so little that they qualify for government assistance. There is no excuse for the fact that these companies don't pay their workers enough to survive without federal assistance.
@ClaudioAnthony
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bernie Sanders for President!!!!
@acer3573
10 жыл бұрын
He would have to go full Democrat, no party is going to put him on a ticket as an independent.
@MikeLazarus
10 жыл бұрын
Corporate Welfare ... But what if the tax-payer stops paying Walmart’s employees and Walmart pays them instead?
@Ryrynz2000
10 жыл бұрын
Oh no, less money for them! Jack the prices up! Oh less sales, fire some staff... You see where this is going right? The system is flawed. The only way to fix this is by taxing the top wage earners A LOT MORE. But will you see that happen? No. Because the top 1% will make sure it won't happen by paying people in power to make sure it doesn't. The only way out of this is a protest of epic proportions. All this talk is doing absolutely nothing as the top wage earners bullshit themselves into thinking everything is okay and this is as it should be.
@RegrowYourRootsDOTcom
10 жыл бұрын
Ryan Clemens Actually your are wrong on all your statements. It has been documented that if Walmart paid all its employees $12.85 an hour the cost passed on to consumers would be about $.46 per visit to Walmart. Walmart pays those wages and sets the hours they do for one simple reason, to make more money and use the welfare system for employee "benefits".
@Ryrynz2000
10 жыл бұрын
ProjectAmericaTV Really? You don't think staff would be let go if wages went up? I beg to differ. I'm right on all accounts. Watch and see.. Oh wait wages won't go up to 12.85 an hour anyway.... So yeah.
@MikeLazarus
10 жыл бұрын
Ryan Clemens Just like increasing executive pay has means less executives ... oh, it didn't? Why is that?
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
ProjectAmericaTV : Thank you for providing real data and pointing out that "Walmart pays those wages and sets the hours they do for one simple reason, to make more money and use the welfare system for employee "benefits"." That's it in a nutshell. Walmart could easily give employees the raise they need and deserve and no harm would befall any of us. I can't imagine that they would lose shoppers at 46 cents more per visit. Where are consumers going to go for something cheaper? There's always the argument that people will "lose jobs and sales" if Walmart has to do the right thing. I don't know why anyone would defend Walmart's practices. Makes no sense to me. Why does Walmart do this? THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY CAN. * You wrote: "It has been documented that if Walmart paid all its employees $12.85 an hour the cost passed on to consumers would be about $.46 per visit to Walmart. Walmart pays those wages and sets the hours they do for one simple reason, to make more money and use the welfare system for employee "benefits".
@tracygittins6343
10 жыл бұрын
Two key phrases I heard from those defending the wealthy Waltons: Scott Winship from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research "I would not use the word WELFARE, I think it's STIGMATIZING". and Aparna Mathur from the American Enterprise Institute "enough benefits to SURVIVE." Wow. We don't want to stigmatize the rich, they have it tough enough. SURVIVING is the economic bar we're aiming for in this great nation? Thanks for posting, Senator Sanders.
@pdolph1
10 жыл бұрын
What he is talking about is that the Walton family that owns Walmart is getting welfare. You the taxpayer is paying Walmart employees and Walton family is one of the richest in the world. All you have to do is listen to this man, he is on your side.
@GeoffonTour
10 жыл бұрын
Start lobbing hot potatoes and watch em dance! Great diversionary answers but at the end of the day even the right has to see that this is NOT free market economics if the govt. is being used to prop up walmart's business model.
@pinkmonkeyfrog
10 жыл бұрын
Along with every other highly profitable company working in the USA. Every BigAG business that gets fed dollars, every Oil/Gas company that gets subsidies etc. etc. They make WINDFALL profits all with the fed government propping them up.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
Geoffon & John, you hit the nail on the head: "This is NOT free market economics if the govt. is being used to prop up Walmart's business model." Amen.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
Geoffon wrote: "Start lobbing hot potatoes and watch em dance! " Another LOL! Good one, Mr. Tour. Haven't heard that expression in many years! Really made me laugh! And so true: "but at the end of the day even the right has to see that this is NOT free market economics if the govt. is being used to prop up walmart's business model." Amen.
@solarvolcano
10 жыл бұрын
Walmart is doing today what some of the richest corporations in the 1880s did and were able to get away with: Extensively profit off the labor of millions of employees working in treacherous conditions because it was the employee's only option for survival. The immigrants in the latter half of the 19th century worked in extremely unsafe conditions, were poorly paid, and worked under extreme hours because there were no labor laws and because that day's pay allowed another day survival to buy shelter and food not just for themselves but for their children and other loved ones. It's like nothing has changed at all.....and people are ignorant enough to not understand the complexity in economics: 1) Lower wages does NOT mean more people are hired, 2) Raises in wages means people are willing to spend more on food; lower food prices have no critical function other than for competition against another retailer. I don't even have a background in economics (engineering for me---you see, way off!) yet when you analyze the situation, it becomes clear. People too often become aware and reserve some stance based on some elementary logical statement (i.e. lower prices better so low income families can afford product) and close their minds to new information and logic that contradicts their first argument (i.e. more money given means more money allocated to purchase food). This closed-mindedness has caused nothing but trouble in this new millenium (i.e. fracking, our freedoms for "security", economic crisis/bailout agreement, and much more). Until our nation enters an enlightenment/renaissance where people gladly care and wish to debate to find the best solution and resolutions for our many issues without acting like children when it becomes clear they are or will be defeated (physically attack, run away, avoid, ignore, insult winning debater), we will continue to struggle.
@dccoulthard
10 жыл бұрын
RUN BERNIE RUN!! Sanders 2016!!
@steven94116
10 жыл бұрын
Mr. Sanders, I am a proud citizen of the United States, and I am proud for your services to our country! Please continue the fight, you have my 100% support!
@207Demo
8 жыл бұрын
Bernie's been talking about this for forever and yet two years later nothing has changed. He's the man the white house needs
@juanchoja
9 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Ireland. Minimum wage in Ireland is $11.50 per hour, employers usually pay a bit more for the lowest jobs (flipping burgers, supermarket assistant) life is also a bit more expensive than the US in general but cheaper than US major cities. Someone earning a minimum wage can afford to live on that one salary and rent a studio or one bedroom apartment (except Dublin where they'll have to rent a room or a studio at most). They can afford a small car, have disposable income and even go on holidays abroad as the average annual leave is 5 weeks paid and by law the minimum is 4 weeks. Universal health care makes it affordable and cancer treatment and all treatments are free, no waiting for life treating procedures.
@ScottKey
10 жыл бұрын
Wal-mart has historically forced other businesses out with their "lower Prices" and made themselves the only option for those people who were displaced by other workplaces. They are forced into employment because there is nothing else. I know that in my town of Cedar City, Utah there was a big hubbub about a Lowes opening there and offering a starting wage of $11.50/hour in 2004, Wal-Mart petitioned the city council to block the construction of the Lowes Center(through back channels) until they brought their starting wage in line with Wal-Mart's. Its not that people have other choices, and if Wal-Mart did this kind of shady thing in a small town in Utah I can't imagine what they are doing on a larger scale.
@7urbo1azer
10 жыл бұрын
What bullshit answers they all gave. The greed of the Walton family and how they treat their employees is disgusting and despicable. They are a shining example of unbounded capitalism and why it's a complete and utter failure.
@Sandreline
8 жыл бұрын
The comment about Walmart workers "choosing" where they work is just so... disconnected from the real world.
@patwalsh5313
10 жыл бұрын
It's disgusting to hear statements like " they choose to work there" or "they are willing to take those jobs" when the bottom line is people are hungry. If a starving man chooses to eat a maggot infested piece of road kill, do we just accept it, or do we offer him something better???
@MikeOfKorea
10 жыл бұрын
You get 'em, Bernie!
@RauCompany
10 жыл бұрын
You tell 'em Sen. Sanders!
@kaseybrown7664
10 жыл бұрын
Hey come on! The woman here was absolutely right! Geez... what's the deal with you guys. People *DO* choose to work at Wal-Mart on starvation wages! That is a complete and total CHOICE that they make! If they don't like it, they can always work somewhere else. Like, McDonalds on starvation wages. Or... Target on starvation wages. Or Sears - hell they pay starvation wages too!!! And you all think there's no choices. Shame on you! Now pick where you want to starve, and get starving. Those jewel incrusted yachts for the 1% aren't going to pay for themselves.
@jeremyallen5632
10 жыл бұрын
Well said. :)
@truthcantbesilenced4533
9 жыл бұрын
That woman is bought and owned by the rich. In no way should tax payers be given a heavier burden to make up for taxes not paid by walmart
@dmob420
10 жыл бұрын
I wanna go back too 1955, 37 a hour sounds better then 8.80 a hour.
@cggiroux
10 жыл бұрын
you'd be able to have a 1 income family, not see the deteriation of the "family unit" which republicans like to state as the cause of so many social ills, when really it all comes down to wealth redistribution to the wealthy but then, if I was working in the political system, where anonymous money reigned, corporations were treated as people, and political careers were job interviews for consulting/lobbying positions... I'd probably say loathsome things like the people defending walmart in this video free markets don't exist, a free market is simply a market where they who have the most money make the most money, usually from the hardwork of those with less money... even so far as taking the money directly out of their products its amazing how much a lobbyist or a politician now a days, has in common with the text book definition of WHORE... i mean, on public display, getting out of a car wearing no underwear, wiping semen from their lips; WHORE... but all that doesn't mean anything to the people that elect them, but don't bother to pay attention to what they do, or get dazzled with slight of hand and trickery such as religious issues... they want to muddy the waters of the separation of church and state, because its REAL easy to get people to vote against their best interests that way... and don't fool yourself into thinking any politician really cares about religious issues beyond using it to razzle dazzle... they are there to get paid, if not immediately, then later by whom they WHORED for... leaving you sitting there, poorer, with a bleaker economic future left for your children, still divided about whether or not homosexuals should have the right to get "married" or when life begins they laugh at you, from inside their limos, from their private jets/yachts, from their gated communities... and on and on and on
@NewhamMatt
5 жыл бұрын
The suggestion that workers can choose between an inadequately paying job and a better paying job (which may or may not exist), and that this justifies a company's right to pay a worker a starvation wage, is abhorrent.
@COLDB33R
10 жыл бұрын
I would have had a follow-up question for the panel members who seemed to be defending Walmart and McDonalds. How much do THEY personally make? I would bet that the answer would have a couple of zeroes more than the minimum wage. The argument isn't between left and right; it's between the top and the rest of us.
@jeffreyrwilliams9345
10 жыл бұрын
Bernie Sanders & Robert Reich, a super dynamic duo. Great video!!! thank you!!!
@samuelhuggins3173
8 жыл бұрын
bernie Sanders for president!!!
@JDHendrickChiliDogTags
9 жыл бұрын
I like the point by Robert Reish. The difference is that in 1950 the government wasn't intervening in health care, housing and education.
@johnathanmiller5230
9 жыл бұрын
Bernie 2016!!
@qpalzm563
7 жыл бұрын
It's sad to see this comment given what's happened now, but we can still hope: Bernie 2020!
@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295
7 жыл бұрын
qpalzm563 Sanders/Gabbard 2020
@detroithammer8869
10 жыл бұрын
Keep it up Bernie,some people will learn.
@CreoleInDC
10 жыл бұрын
Walmart should not be allowed to continue to operate as they do. PAY THOSE PEOPLE A LIVING WAGE! If Walmart paid them, we wouldn't have to assist in taking care of them. Why is this not common sense?
@JMFowlkes
10 жыл бұрын
It is common sense... but this is politics, it doesn't work in common sense. Imagine the change that could happen if they listen to sense.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
Justin-Michael Fowlkes : You are right, and now they only "they listen to cents."
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
Define a living wage. I bet you can't.
@JMFowlkes
10 жыл бұрын
whyamimrpink78 I'm no fandangled word-smith or economist or anything, but common sense would say that a living wage would be an amount above the poverty line that would allow an employee to afford basic needs such as housing, utilities, food, transit and maybe even a movie. Most define this as the poverty line of a family of 4. Which is actually just the lowest end of the middle-class salary which starts at 25k. Now that SEEMS like a lot but that's just ~$12.50/hr. 30k is just ~$15/hr. Of course that salary and wage would fluctuate with the area and cost of living. Some competitors of Walmart have a national wage that is constant no matter the location. The conundrum is that Walmart can AFFORD to pay their workers more and don't. They choose not too and more workers use more benefit programs. It's essentially cheating the system and using it for gain. Anyone who's ever lived off of minimum wage knows what a living wage is, maybe not in words but they feel the ways they don't have it.
@whyamimrpink78
10 жыл бұрын
Justin-Michael Fowlkes Not many people are living off of min. wage to begin with. That aside, it isn't up to a business to worry about someone's personal finances. Someone can be making the min. wage but still make a living. My girlfriend works part time on min. wage and she is actually paying off her loan. That is because she lives with me and I make a lot more than she does. I make $20,000/yr. I pay rent, own the car, pay internet, where she pays for energy, a lot of the food, and her loan, and soon mine. We manage our money well. The average household income for and individual making $9.50/hr or less is over $47,000/yr. That is because low wage workers are supplemental income and not the main earner. That is the problem with the term "living wage" in that it is subjective. You are paid based on your work. You either have to find a way to earn more or manage money better if you are having a hard time making a living. Another problem with the living wage is what is $12/hr, or $20/hr? Money is essentially worthless until society gives it value. The same is with cars, land, houses, etc. The Waltons have so much wealth because they own half of walmart. The property that walmart sits on and the buildings themselves are worth a lot. It isn't that the Waltons have a lot of income or money to spare. If the government starts setting prices, as in the price of labor, then money becomes worthless. So people will be making more but the dollar will be weaker. This, and much more is why the term "living wage" can't be defined.
@mike020363
10 жыл бұрын
The catch-22 is that people are only able to work and live on $8.50/hr because there are government programs which subsidize such a low wage. So, the trap is we can't simply remove those programs. If Walmart pays a living wage, then prices will go up and people will struggle. It's not an easy problem to solve.
@AlekseyVolchek
10 жыл бұрын
God point. But it's not an easy problem, because the root of the problem is GREED. and Profits to the stockholders over social impact.
@randall2158
10 жыл бұрын
You have a bad understanding of how economics like this really works. They've been robbing the middle-class for nearly four decades...trust me if they increased the prices because they decided to pay workers a liveable wage it would only be out of greed--not necessity. A hundred billion dollars is more than enough money for a hundred generations.
@shanefbores
10 жыл бұрын
I love the last answer... yea why doesn't everyone just become a manager and get paid more that will totally solve the problems
@highhorse313
10 жыл бұрын
Tax the rich. Tax them at 1960 rates. A no-brainer.
@bma051000
10 жыл бұрын
1) Please define who the "rich" are. 2) Why don't we cut entitlements (Medicare, SS, Medicaid, the welfare state)? 3) Read Ayn Rand.
@KingofArsenal
10 жыл бұрын
***** 1. Any one, who makes 750k a year or more. 2. so let me get this state, you want to cut entitlements because they effect the economy badly? if so then look at countries who don't have those programs (they are the 3rd world countries) and in fact we give away 400 BILLION in tax evasions, add up that with cooperate welfare, tax loopholes, and few other things. oo and don't forget the military. lastly get money out of politics, so the congress and the president represents the PEOPLE, and not the wall street/the 1 %. then we will have a good economy, AND A BALANCED budget; furthermore we will be WORLD leaders once again. 3. as for the book, cant say i have read it. i will deff look into it. but i think i have summarized the few main issues (not all tho).
@tomkrewson1961
10 жыл бұрын
***** You know what, Anne Rand went on her husbands government support when she needed it, and lived on it for the rest of her life.
@xenophonicus
10 жыл бұрын
I love watching people try to defend the richest family in America keeping their workforce in poverty, simply because they can. Especially loved the third speaker completely avoided the topic by saying safety nets are helpful, while not even acknowledging that these full time workers need them because the richest family in the country doesn't want to lose a fraction of their obscene wealth.
@green2stayecoswdmarketingn339
9 жыл бұрын
'I worked at Mc Donalds in the eighties I was payed around $3.45hr I was 14,my shift finished at 12;30PM the buses stopped at 12:00pm,I was just a kid and wanted a taste of work 'IF WAS MY FIRST REAL TASTE OF CAPITALISM!'
@thomasrainbow
8 жыл бұрын
Thankfully we have Bernie
@evenodds000
10 жыл бұрын
Would the Waltons really have to fire some employees and make cut backs if they, themselves, were responsible for paying their workers? I thought I heard that they (being a part of the 1%) earn 38% of the wealth in the country.
@diannaskare7829
4 жыл бұрын
SENATOR SANDERS SPEECH FOR MIDDLE CLASS AND LABORERS …. AGAIN !!! NOW I KNOW WHY THIS WHOLE SPEECH WASNT ON TV!!
@sarahbecker7568
9 жыл бұрын
Things you should know. Nine dollars an hour still is way short a living wage. I'm going to bust the belt on this. Hey 1% kids your dad made you. He loved his associates, and he would tell you to live like them on 9.00 an hour so you could understand. Walmart associates make your sales. I believe the starting wage should be 12.00 an hour in Indiana. That gets you a nice pad, good car, groceries, and a little bit of fun. Then aspire for long term employment getting raises by salary increase for every year of service. Scoring raises on performance in addition to associate loyalty raises. Come on, raise the bar. I've been here for eight years. Shouldn't I have better things to say about my company?
@bigjohn27
10 жыл бұрын
Finally a Senator or Congressmen or pretty much anyone who holds office in DC that I am proud to give them the title Honorable in front of Senator.
@BoogsterSU2
9 жыл бұрын
Here's another way to protest Walmart - shop, or work, at Costco instead. Problem solved.
@DarthObscurity
8 жыл бұрын
+Boogster Su Is there a costco across the street from every walmart? I've never even seen a costco except in a movie. For lots of people, there is literally no choice. Sure, there is little grocery stores everywhere, but if people are already struggling on assistance, how do they pay practically double for everything?
@jaredlittle21
8 жыл бұрын
+Darth Obscurity If those who have a costco available make this choice, soon you would have one too.
@DarthObscurity
8 жыл бұрын
Jared Little Ok, so until then? Starve?
@jaredlittle21
8 жыл бұрын
Darth Obscurity I assume you're talking about those without a Costco? In this case, what you're saying is there is NO alternative to shopping at a Walmart or Costco? Are you freaking kidding me?
@DarthObscurity
8 жыл бұрын
Jared Little And as I already said, do you expect people who are already struggling to travel even farther or pay nearly double? Are YOU freaking kidding me?
@PrincessTS01
10 жыл бұрын
minimum wages should be living wages and based off local cost for housing for the single person., example, so if the the lowest rent in a region is $1000 then the minimum wage should be $18.75. The corporate welfare for the Waltons family is not long term sustainable for such wealth imbalance, think what it will be like in 100 years if it keeps going as badly as it has been, its not a pretty picture...the billionaires are acting badly and it needs to be stopped before it gets worse. As a former employee of wal-mart i know that company does not give raises fast enough to pay the bills for the staff needs when having a family, it sucks. There should be a ratio of 33 to 1 from the lowest paid to the highest paid in a corporation.
@johnleeb
10 жыл бұрын
The concept of low prices from Walmart is B.S. as is the idea that people can move to other places to work. Walmart has driven those other places out of business by making people *believe* that they have the lowest prices. People on that panel do not know what they are talking about. Send the panel members, and other members of Congress to the school of hard knocks so the can get an education in real life instead of their hiding high up on the money ladder.
@allanjfotos
10 жыл бұрын
I like your thinking Bernie, I worked for John Walton and he was a nice guy who respected all of us who worked for him. John also paid me more than any other I had in the USA in the 10 years I was there around 22$USD per hour. So the Walton family may have a few people at the top of there business that need a kick in the balls and or fired. Ask them to live on $8.80 per hour.
@BambiPunch
10 жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or should working fulltime for minimum wage be enough to sustain a small family? If you check is so puny you have to get government help FOR FOOD, something is wrong.
@tomkieser8125
10 жыл бұрын
So the answer for Walmart workers is to aspire for management positions. Correct me if I'm wrong but if everybody is a boss how does any work done? Not everybody can be a manager. this is all bullshit with Walmart. This problem could be solved if nobody shop there.
@jasonvorhees9696
10 жыл бұрын
join those of us who are boycotting them
@LeeWhiteNC
10 жыл бұрын
Bernie Sanders is totally awesome! He asks the questions that no republican would ever ask. Robert Reich is spot on in his reply!
@acer3573
10 жыл бұрын
"Won't hire people at $11 an hour minimum wage?" "People choose to work at Walmart?" How completely delusional are those two? Companies will hire at whatever the minimum wage is because they have no other choice, and often Walmart is the biggest employer in the area and the only choice many have!
@MarkPlemmonsconcordnc
10 жыл бұрын
Reich's comparison of the countries largest employees. Wal Mart's average wage $8.80 (I believe) to GM in the '50s adjusted to $37 today is stunning.
@sushi_mermaid7116
8 жыл бұрын
I love the one lady was saying "they should aspire to move up in the company" why? I work at walmart and if you move up to salaried management you start working 60-70 hours a week... If you divide into the hours you work by your new salary you are not making less then minimum wage. So no thats not the answer. Its so easy to say "oh just move up" well then walmart can take advantage of you in a whole new way.
@stacyblackadar7138
10 жыл бұрын
Nobody chooses to work at Walmart. NO little kid says "When I grow up I want to work at Walmart" It's something you do when you're desperate and you can't get work anywhere else. So let us make that a livable wage and we will change the world.
@vivalaleta
10 жыл бұрын
Yes, all you Walmart workers, that Mathur has a brilliant plan - STOP WORKING AT WAL-MART! Just stop. Case closed. Jesus, why didn't I think of that.
@IzzyPepper
10 жыл бұрын
***** I think he is being sarcastic.
@atticsf
10 жыл бұрын
They should just follow in the foot steps of the great Mitt Romney and suck it up and sale a few thousand of their stocks when the times are hard.
@vivalaleta
10 жыл бұрын
***** You don't know sarcasm when it bites you in the ass, dear.
@mmspeedy09
10 жыл бұрын
sarcasmftw
@rosemeadehart8181
10 жыл бұрын
Proud to be a New Yorker living in my adopted state of Vermont. Tell it, Bernie.
@robertthomas7094
10 жыл бұрын
What freedom....I can choose to work at walmart for $8/hour or burger king for $8/hour or get a degree and work for a biotech company for $9/hour...thank goodness I have the freedom to choose my opressor. Riech is the only economist on the panel.
10 жыл бұрын
Make it a win-win situation. If any corporation hires, contracts, or sub-contracts a worker that qualifies for welfare, it is disqualified to receive tax-credits or receive any government incentive or subsidy.
@dart533
10 жыл бұрын
That second to last person was completely out of touch. Does she actually think that people have a choice of where they are employed these days? There are few jobs, and many people who need said jobs in order to survive. Therefore, companies know they can hire people for low wages because there are 5 applicants for every job. It drives wages down as a whole.
@montypython103
10 жыл бұрын
'WORKERS HAVE A CHOICE'?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!!? It's ok for a single family to be richer than 38% of an entire country and not pay a fair wage? Do you honestly believe that in our country, with unemployment at the levels that it is, anyone would choose to work for min wage at walmart? I've worked there, not by choice but by necessity, and it is NOT a good place to work. I assure you, the Walton's can afford to take a pay cut, keep prices low and pay workers a fair wage. If that's not the case, then we are not America. The fact that GE paid it's workers $37/hr (in relative $$) vs WalMart's $8.80 is the most important fact from this video. It's ludicrous to think that this is ok.
@brelodge55
9 жыл бұрын
Not to long ago there was a video, in similar format to an info-graphic, making a point about wages and what need be done to give workers a living wage. In order to give minimum wage workers a living wage, Wal-Mart might have to raise the price of a product- their own brand of macaroni. How much would it have to be raised? Evidently (as per stats and info in that video) they might have to raise the products price by 2 cents. That's it.
@karicowan21
10 жыл бұрын
The US Military is no different regarding the number of enlisted families dependent on government assistance because of their poverty level pay. Bernie Sanders...Respect...I have seen you speak at MOAA events but tell the truth! It is not just Walmart. It is also Congress! Care about our troops? Pay them a decent living wage and get them off welfare!
@pramuschan2561
10 жыл бұрын
It makes me crazy that 3 out of the 4 panelists do not accept the premise of the question, nor do they address the question directly. It seems so obvious to me that a company offering a wage which forces people to apply for (and be accepted into) the food stamp program is *directly* receiving a subsidy from the government -- meaning from the taxpayers. And when the owners of the company are uber-wealthy, this seems nuts! To raise the wages would mean lower profits. And perhaps even an increase in costs to consumers. But at least there would be a fair and just reduction of the tax burden on middle America.
@petehall1985
9 жыл бұрын
she talks about aspiring to and getting a better job within walmart. you always have more employees than managers. 12 people may have applied for those jobs but that is the state of the economy not a personal employment choice. if you pay people more they can afford to spend more, ironically it would benefit the company.
@ttaz4dqm
10 жыл бұрын
Winship is a little weasel corporate lackey. Those last two were no prizes either. This country blows.
@sylviastreet6785
3 жыл бұрын
The wages from Wal mart and other large companies wages are considered too high to get government assistance. And if they get assistance they are demanded to ask too many personal questions that are not necessary. With The assistance, the government tracks where you are, what you eat and what medical condition you in.what you eat is not their business. But with food stamps, they know what you eat. And the list goes on.
@lorirule8617
10 жыл бұрын
"People have a choice of where they work and if they don't want a minimum wage job, they should just apply elsewhere." .....Really? Do these people honestly think that those folks have an open option of where to work?
@RonWylie-gk5lc
5 жыл бұрын
In the UK we have fought for employees rights and have built unions to look after workers rights but all they did was allow in people from poor countries who work like slaves for less money than British workers. This is not my rant against foreign workers, whats wrong is they shouldn't be working for less. Governments even have the nerve to try telling us they do it for workers , so anyone can work anywhere PLEASE
@therylmccoy6748
8 жыл бұрын
$100 billion. lol. Walmart should fund their own welfare program for their employees.
@AvangionQ
10 жыл бұрын
Corporate welfare needs to end, as it is coming at the expense of the everyday taxpayer ~ the fastest way to achieve that is to raise minimum wage to a living wage, currently $11 per hour, scaling up with inflation. Afterwards, tax the ultra-rich that make more than a million per year at a 50% rate, allowing an exemption for the first year striking it rich. Lastly, restore the estate tax for those massive inheritances with personal gains exceeding two million and tax those at a 50% rate. The excess taxes can be used to restore the middle class and pay for all the services needed for modern civilization to thrive. Sadly, I don't see any of this getting done until we get money out of politics and prevent corporations from bribing our congressmen to have their way.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
I have always believed in the FLAT TAX where "everyone pays a flat rate of 10% on earnings, no matter how large or how small." But this has never been passed, no matter how many times it is propsed. Why is that? Because the rich know how to pay 0% or less, and get money back, that's why! So many loopholes in the tax laws, all written by "government, for the people and by the people." This needs to change and now. But will it ever? I don't know...
@AvangionQ
10 жыл бұрын
Catherine Todd 10% flat tax is what they have in Russia, and they have wealth inequality far worse than what we have here ... flat tax isn't the answer, scaling tax based on income is, with tax breaks made for the first year climbing the ladder (that's when people tend to do most of their spending, and `friends` come out of the woodworks) ...
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
AvangionQ : I would love to see "something" work when it came to fair tax rates. So far, with all the loopholes and subsidies, it seems that it's still take from the poor and pay to the rich. I'm glad I'm independent, and I intend to keep it that way.
@AvangionQ
10 жыл бұрын
Catherine Todd If that's the problem, then the answer is to ask some accountants to find and close the loopholes (easily done with a few congressional subpoenas), so as to make sure corporations and the ultra-rich are taxed properly.
@catherinetodd
10 жыл бұрын
AvangionQ : Sounds easy enough, but those loopholes were put there for a reason! I don't think it would be so easy to change the tax laws when changes have to be voted on, but I'm not a congressperson or lawyer so I don't really know. I doubt that "some accountants" and "a few congressional subpoenas" would be accepted by the majority of law-makers, since many of them are the law-breakers to begin with. But it's an interesting idea. Who would you suggest subpoenaing to being with? How to identify which ones? Who would request these subpoenas, and what would the subpoenas be based on? I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure there's rules about this. How would you suggest starting this kind of thing? Petition? Which congressperson to introduce it into congress? What is the procedure to change tax laws?
@keitharntson7671
10 жыл бұрын
The rebuttals are so mind-blowingly stupid, you can tell that the people delivering them are too well-educated to believe what they're saying: 1) If the minimum wage is raised, Walmart won't hire workers. 2) People choose to work at Walmart. If they don't like making 8$ an hour, they should find better jobs. 3) If Walmart workers aspire to make more money, they should be more ambitious and get promoted within the company.
@jeremyallen5632
10 жыл бұрын
Working at walmart does not do anything other than allow walmart to give their employees money that they ultimately turn around and give right back to walmart. How is that any different than a coal mine paying their employees with tokens that ultimately get spent in the mining companies town stores? There is no difference. Yes the people have an option to try to get a job elsewhere, but what other jobs are there? NONE.
@theluzah
10 жыл бұрын
Go get 'em, Bernie!!!
@drkmwinters
10 жыл бұрын
We don't only have income inequality in America, we have wage distribution inequality. Wages, from the CEO down, are a business cost. There should be equitable distribution of the wage 'pie' to reflect the value each employee contributes to profits. Jamie Dimon was paid a $20 million bonus. Imagine if that money had been distributed amongst all the employees, down to the cleaners, instead.
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