The irony of people saying that socialists want “free stuff”…

@SunshineGirl The Waltons who I think are still the richest family in the US specifically calculated Wal-Mart wages so workers would qualify for food stamps and Medicare and force the government to pay their benefits that way.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Socialist freeloaders . .

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Please list a source to back up your baseless claim.

@justanothername Baseless claims? Because it doesn't fit your feelings?

@justanothername Out of any company Walmart has the highest number of recipients of food stamps and Medicaid. This has been the state of affairs since at least 2014.

That's not an accident. It is a corporate strategy.

And Walmart is privately owned by the Waltons so that decision lies at the feet of 6 billionaires.

@Reason10 Making excuses for billionaire exploitation on the mentally ill delusion that you will be one some day.


Trump is objectively making things worse, but again it is about feelings and blind worship of a cult leader for you. Reality doesn't matter.


You love attacking the poor when you are closer to being one than you ever will be to being a billionaire.



I am willing to bet you have never worked an honest day of work in your life. Your defensiveness and blind support for oligarchs.

Screams trust fund baby.

@Reason10 The post is about remunerating workers sufficiently so they can support themselves without external assistance. If Walmart, Amazon, et al paid their workers reasonably there would be no need for the state to step in with benefits for working people. This would have the additional impact of making work seem more attractive and perhaps reducing the number of working age claimants.

But this would remove one major category of the conservatives' perennial social scapegoats, so is unlikely to happen . . .