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Why does the gov't have to subsidize cheap employers?

The government isn't subsidizing Walmart for cheap employees. That is just bullshit liberal spin.

Who subsidizes them if Walmart never gives them a job? The Mom and Pop store they would be working at, for, most likely, minimum wage and is small enough to be exempt from a **** load of requirements to which Walmart is subjected?
 
The government isn't subsidizing Walmart for cheap employees. That is just bullshit liberal spin.

Who subsidizes them if Walmart never gives them a job? The Mom and Pop store they would be working at, for, most likely, minimum wage and is small enough to be exempt from a **** load of requirements to which Walmart is subjected?

Walmart teaches it's employees how to get gov't benefits. They do that because their employees qualify for benefits. They qualify because walmart doesn't pay them enough to live on while walmart makes billions in profits. If walmart was merely breaking even you might have an argument, but we are subsidizing walmarts efforts to keep wages lower than they need to be for walmart to be profitable.
 
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/republican-national-committee-trump-rnc-226844#ixzz4Gv9I95Bk

RNC suffers spate of Trump-related departures
For some young staff members, the party's embrace of its nominee is a "deal breaker."

The Republican National Committee has seen a spate of departures in recent months related to its embrace of Donald Trump, whom some former staffers felt uncomfortable supporting.

In recent months, deputy press secretary James Hewitt, spokesman Fred Brown, director of Hispanic media Ruth Guerra, and research analysts Lars Trautman and Colin Spence have all left the RNC with Trump as one of the reasons for their resignations, according to sources familiar with their decisions. At least three other staff members have also left the RNC with opposition to Trump as a contributing factor, according to multiple sources.

In total, at least 11 staffers have left the RNC since March, although not all of the departures were related to Trump.

Spence, who joined the RNC in June 2015 as a research analyst on the investigations team, left this June for a “variety of factors” but said he wasn’t “overjoyed with how the primary season went.”

“Personally I wasn’t comfortable working to elect him,” he said of Trump.

More people to trash as RINOs or whatever. The point is, Trump turns off so many people, he can't get the crossover votes he needs to compete in swing states.
 
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-in-fourth-place-among-black-voters/

Trump Is In Fourth Place Among Black Voters

It wasn’t that long ago that Donald Trump liked to boast about his support from black voters. And although Trump had a history of controversy on issues of race, it wasn’t that crazy to think he could at least outperform the GOP’s last two presidential nominees, John McCain and Mitt Romney, with black voters. After all, McCain and Romney were polling at less than 5 percent among black voters after their conventions, and Trump isn’t facing off against the first black presidential nominee of a major party.

But Trump is polling worse among black voters than almost every single Republican presidential nominee since 1948 in polls taken between the party conventions and Election Day.

Trump is currently in fourth place among black voters. You read that correctly: He’s trailing Hillary Clinton, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein. Any one national poll typically has only about 100 African-American respondents — too small a sample to make much of the results. So here’s an average of the four live-interview surveys taken since the conventions, from ABC News/Washington Post, Fox News, Marist, and NBC News/Wall Street Journal:

POLLSTER CLINTON JOHNSON STEIN TRUMP
ABC News/Washington Post 83% 4% 8% 2%
Fox News 85 7 — 1
Marist 89 5 3 2
NBC News/Wall Street Journal 86 0 4 1
Average 86 4 5 2
Trump is in fourth place among black voters
Fox News did not include Jill Stein in its horse-race question.

Trump’s 2 percent is just flat-out awful.1 And it doesn’t seem like a statistical fluke: Trump’s lack of appeal among black voters is pretty consistent, at 1 percent to 2 percent across the polls, and he trails Stein in the three post-convention surveys that included her.

To find out how Trump is doing compared with past Republican nominees, I looked at the American National Election Studies surveys since 1948. Some 2016 voters haven’t decided who they’re going to vote for, so to be fair to Trump, I looked at only the pre-election surveys (as opposed to the post-election ANES surveys), because they allowed respondents to indicate they were undecided. It’s not pretty.
 
So without the family leave, when people are out and walmart just fires them so they go the gov't dole, that's better? Why does the gov't have to subsidize cheap employers?

Walmart is already subject to FMLA leave requirements. Therefore, employees are guaranteed 12 weeks of time off work for their own or a close family member's serious medical condition (meaning at least 3 days off work, hospitalization, or ongoing medical care for the condition).

FMLA is broadly construed to protect employees. Most states have a similar protection. In California, it is known as the California Family Rights Act ("CFRA").

FMLA requires that the employee (1) must have been employed with the employer for at least one year before the leave, (2) must have worked at least 1,250 hours in the preceding year, and (3) the employer must have at least 50 employees in a 75-mile radius.

Further, any employer who violates FMLA and takes any "adverse employment action" against the employee for taking such leave is subject to all resulting damages, both economic and non-economic, as well as attorney fees and punitive damages.

I listed all of the above without need for research. This is what I do for a living, Vis.

Hillary wants to impose those leave guarantees on small employers, Vis. Not a good idea.

It's like the education argument. Germany gives free college because maximizing the potential of it's citizens makes them stronger as a nation. Should kids have to work for their education? Yes, but that work should be working to qualify, not to pay. Everyone shouldn't go to college but everyone with the ability should. It will make the country richer. It will make us more competitive. We waste our workforce resources if we under-educate our kids. Companies have to import graduates, especially in the sciences.

Great. But why I am forced to pay for some ****-wipe majoring in dance? Or goat-herding? Or anything, for that matter, Vis.

Are you under the impression that college graduates with degrees in science and math cannot find work and pay off their student loans? Not true, my man, not true.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...ent-rates-science-engineering-and-health-phds

http://www.studentsreview.com/unemployment_by_major.php3
 
Walmart teaches it's employees how to get gov't benefits. They do that because their employees qualify for benefits. They qualify because walmart doesn't pay them enough to live on while walmart makes billions in profits. If walmart was merely breaking even you might have an argument, but we are subsidizing walmarts efforts to keep wages lower than they need to be for walmart to be profitable.

Nobody is holding a gun to a Wal Mart employee's head and forcing him to stay there either.
 
Great. But why I am forced to pay for some ****-wipe majoring in dance? Or goat-herding? Or anything, for that matter, Vis.

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That's a different issue. College tuition based on the actual program? There's room to negotiate.

But saddling college kids with debt hurts the economy more than paying the tuition. Some people have a distaste for the gov't helping people or the idea that someone gets something "for free". Countries that have gotten beyond that feeling have done so because it's better for the country as a whole. Think of it as a cost of doing business. It's like the safety net. My standard of living is better if we don't have slums like they do in Haiti, just over the hill from the fancy resort. It doesn't have to be that distasteful altruism to not want the country burdened by large pockes of abject poverty. Think of it as a benefit to you as well to prevent it.
 
That's a different issue. College tuition based on the actual program? There's room to negotiate.

Yikes, some elected officials now deciding what majors they will finance. What could go wrong, other than everything?

But saddling college kids with debt hurts the economy more than paying the tuition.

No, it doesn't. First, the best way to drive up price for any good or service is to have the government pay for all or part of it.

You wonder why the cost of health care exploded from 1965 to today? Hello, government funding. Here is why.

I am willing to pay "x" for a medical procedure. The government steps in and says, "Hey, let me cover that cost." The health care provider, not being dumb, accepts the government's money and now charges me "x" for the medical procedure - the same price I was willing to pay all along, but now coupled with the government's funding = much higher price for the same service.

Further, the idea that government is spending money that was heretofore stuffed in Gollum's den is inaccurate and misses the truth by a lot. The money the government is spending was previously spent by private businesses and private individuals - i.e., making and improving the economy. You remove that money from the taxpayer and lose the benefit of that spending, and replace it with an expensive, ever-expanding, ever-more costly bureaucracy to oversee government's "largesse."

Think of it as a cost of doing business. It's like the safety net. My standard of living is better if we don't have slums like they do in Haiti, just over the hill from the fancy resort. It doesn't have to be that distasteful altruism to not want the country burdened by large pockes of abject poverty. Think of it as a benefit to you as well to prevent it.

I believe you conflate opportunity with outcome. The United States is successful, and popular, and beautiful, and prosperous based on opportunity, not based on some guaranteed outcome. Haiti, by the way, has an extraordinarily bad record of protecting private property rights, and runs a significant deficit despite high tax rates:

The top personal income and corporate tax rates are 30 percent. Other taxes include a value-added tax and a capital gains tax. The overall tax burden is estimated to equal about 12.2 percent of GDP. Government spending amounts to 28 percent of total domestic output. The budget balance has fluctuated between deficit and surplus, and public debt has increased to 26 percent of GDP.

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/Haiti

Haiti is pretty much the model for future America, with our current profligate spending and political corruption.

So if you want the United States economy to grow, and give opportunity to all segments of our society, then restrict illegal immigration (which drives down the cost of labor for the lowest-skilled workers), allow our nation to develop its incredible energy reserves, reduce government spending to those matters where it belongs, and let people make their own way.
 
Walmart teaches it's employees how to get gov't benefits. They do that because their employees qualify for benefits. They qualify because walmart doesn't pay them enough to live on while walmart makes billions in profits. If walmart was merely breaking even you might have an argument, but we are subsidizing walmarts efforts to keep wages lower than they need to be for walmart to be profitable.

answer the ******* question I asked. I didn't ask for more BS against walmart. **** ACORN spent half their time teaching people how to get government benefits even if they didn't qualify. Walmart is helping their employees navigate what can be a difficult beauracracy.. Oh, the horror!

What would these people be getting paid if they didn't work for Walmart? $15/hour? Unemployed? They'd be working at some small Mom and Pop store selling the same items for 15% more, still making minimum wage and for a company too small to be required to follow a lot of regulations. not sure what all of those regulations are, but one of them will be the requirement to provide insurance. They'd, almost certainly, STILL be on government benefits.
 
I hate it when we line up the National Guard and make these poor slobs go to college to study something worthless. ************* government.
 
Rand Paul just called for Hillary to be indicted. Trump should echo it and support it.

http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/rand-paul-hillary-plan/

The Revolutionary War was fought to ensure no one who lived in America would ever been deemed a subject and no individual would garner special privilege. Hillary Clinton is a citizen of the United States, nothing more and nothing less.
 
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