{"id":6616,"date":"2012-11-20T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2012-11-20T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:37:45","slug":"lazy-bums-on-the-government-dole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6616","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Bums On The Government Dole&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wisconsin_walmart_dole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6617\" title=\"wisconsin_walmart_dole\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wisconsin_walmart_dole-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wisconsin_walmart_dole-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wisconsin_walmart_dole-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wisconsin_walmart_dole.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This seems like beating on a dead horse&#8230;probably everyone knows by now that WalMart pays food stamp wages&#8230;but there&#8217;s a point here that needs constant hammering on. \u00a0 If you like WalMart&#8217;s <strong>Low, Low Prices!<\/strong> fine&#8230;except WalMart workers are living on food stamps and probably other public support too, and that&#8217;s a large part of how WalMart keeps its prices down (another part is their pressure on companies to manufacture goods in low wage countries abroad, thereby costing American families their livelihoods and decimating this country&#8217;s industrial base). \u00a0 So&#8230;the difference between what you paid for your WalMart goods and what they would actually cost if WalMart simply paid its workers a living wage is the part paid for by food stamps. \u00a0 If you shop at WalMart, you are on the dole too. \u00a0 Except you could probably afford not to be.<\/p>\n<p>So who&#8217;s the lazy bum wanting a government handout here, because it isn&#8217;t the WalMart worker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream this morning&#8230; This seems like beating on a dead horse&#8230;probably everyone knows by now that WalMart pays food stamp wages&#8230;but there&#8217;s a point here that needs constant hammering on. \u00a0 If you like WalMart&#8217;s Low, Low Prices! fine&#8230;except WalMart workers are living on food stamps and probably other public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[118,78,12],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-republican-america","tag-the-struggle-for-america","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}