Friday, January 13, 2006
Finally Legislative Action on Walmart
One of the things that most annoys me about Walmart in particular and similar business enterprises in general is thet a person can be working and still have to rely on the welfare system for health care. That is disgusting, part of why one goes to work is to NOT be dependant on the welfare system and when people make the effort to
1 Get up in the morning
2. Clean themselves
3. Dress themselves
4. Get themselves to the job
5. Do the job properly
They have earned their money and other benefits. Certain benefits used to be standard even in the most govni jobs.
About when I started to work, that was changeing. It used to be that even non-union jobs had some benefits, and that companies which did not wish to be unionized realized that they had to provide certain benefits to avoid the attentions of union organizers.
It was considered good business too to have employees that felt their compensation was reasonable.
Walmart was by no means the first company to change this, they in fact are only one of many.
IN my opinion when ANY company avoids paying some benefits like health care, or a salary that would allow people to seek it individually, thus compelling their workers to go to rhe welfare office and get state medical aid, that COMPANY IS ALSO ON WELFARE.
The funny thing is that the right wing anarchist useful idiots who defend this as being good business don't realize that most of our lack of freedoms even now under a less than optimum government, in time of war, corporations intrude FAR more into our lives than government does.
For example, for me or anyone else, to come to the attention of an entity such as Homeland Security, I have to at least be suspected of something bad. Sure this can wreck a person's life, but there is at least the justification in the name of national self defense. It's not nice or pretty or acceptable but it IS understandable.
What I can't stand is that no one wants to even talk about the intrusion of corporations into people's private lives, and their failure to take up their responsibilites as part of this country. Corporations have their interests defended, and are benefitting from the fact of America as much as some person who just lives here and works here, some ordinary citizen. Ordinary citizens have responsibilities and duties that come with this, and they have requirements set on them because of this.
I think the State of Maryland did the right thing. Such huge companies CAN TOO afford to have group insurance plans for their employees. Once a company is so big the price goes down a lot and there are all sorts of measures to save money on it.
I would like to see similar laws in all 50 states, not for small businesses, which genuinely can't afford this, just for the big guys that whine so much about it.
Look, it's that or defnately go for National Health Care for everyone and stop the stupid arguments about it.
I don't think companies should be on welfare past a certain point any more than people should be.
People should be on welfare only long enough to get on their feet, and companies of the size of Walmart should not be on welfare at all.
1 Get up in the morning
2. Clean themselves
3. Dress themselves
4. Get themselves to the job
5. Do the job properly
They have earned their money and other benefits. Certain benefits used to be standard even in the most govni jobs.
About when I started to work, that was changeing. It used to be that even non-union jobs had some benefits, and that companies which did not wish to be unionized realized that they had to provide certain benefits to avoid the attentions of union organizers.
It was considered good business too to have employees that felt their compensation was reasonable.
Walmart was by no means the first company to change this, they in fact are only one of many.
IN my opinion when ANY company avoids paying some benefits like health care, or a salary that would allow people to seek it individually, thus compelling their workers to go to rhe welfare office and get state medical aid, that COMPANY IS ALSO ON WELFARE.
The funny thing is that the right wing anarchist useful idiots who defend this as being good business don't realize that most of our lack of freedoms even now under a less than optimum government, in time of war, corporations intrude FAR more into our lives than government does.
For example, for me or anyone else, to come to the attention of an entity such as Homeland Security, I have to at least be suspected of something bad. Sure this can wreck a person's life, but there is at least the justification in the name of national self defense. It's not nice or pretty or acceptable but it IS understandable.
What I can't stand is that no one wants to even talk about the intrusion of corporations into people's private lives, and their failure to take up their responsibilites as part of this country. Corporations have their interests defended, and are benefitting from the fact of America as much as some person who just lives here and works here, some ordinary citizen. Ordinary citizens have responsibilities and duties that come with this, and they have requirements set on them because of this.
I think the State of Maryland did the right thing. Such huge companies CAN TOO afford to have group insurance plans for their employees. Once a company is so big the price goes down a lot and there are all sorts of measures to save money on it.
I would like to see similar laws in all 50 states, not for small businesses, which genuinely can't afford this, just for the big guys that whine so much about it.
Look, it's that or defnately go for National Health Care for everyone and stop the stupid arguments about it.
I don't think companies should be on welfare past a certain point any more than people should be.
People should be on welfare only long enough to get on their feet, and companies of the size of Walmart should not be on welfare at all.
# posted by Katja R. @ 9:53 AM 
