FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Yeah ... a lot of people by hired by Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy for minimum wage, and on Dec. 27 they'll be laid off.

 

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Would you base your vote on Israel's preference?

 

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When the Jewish vote in Brooklyn swings New York to the GOP, let us know.

 

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Let's move the Volt debate to this board as well, so we can just have the bullshit truthiness in one place

 

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You don't think the BLS figures this in? "Seasonally adjusted" means something ...

 

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If only the Walton family and the other company executives would just be given more tax cuts, they'd pay their employees more than minimum wage, right?

 

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Wrong. They'd pay their employees not a penny more than those employees are worth. They might open more stores, they might make their stores bigger, they might do a lot of things ... but no one is going to pay more for an hour's worth of labor than what that hour's worth of labor is worth.

 

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The jobs report is an exact example of why the partisans in our electorate are so uniformed and so willing to fall for whatever BS their favorite candidate has to sell.

"Hey we created 171,000 new jobs but the unemployment rate went up and we still are more than 3 percentage points hire than we really want to be or were in 2008...."

Hey, it is Christmas in November for all involved --

Obama can run around claiming he created new jobs
Romney can claim the unemployment rate went up again and is way too high.

And Kool Aid drinking idiots on both sides can argue for the next four days about what these numbers actually mean, which in reality is, not a whole lot given how they are calculated.

 

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Analysts, who take into account seasonal hiring, had forecast 125,000 jobs. Regardless, I don't see this as having much affect, either way.

 

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For someone as smart as you claim to be, you sure as shit as don't have a clue as to how Wal-Mart works.

They underpay employees and keep them below a certain number of hours so they still qualify for various federal benefits like: Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance, etc.

That's the Wal-Mart way and it always has been. It has made the Waltons wealthy beyond words.

And the commie, pinko liberals at CNBC are loving this job reports.

 

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Of course!

 

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In Walmart's defense, it does inform employees about public assistance options.