Walmart-Take From The Poor To Give To The Poor?

Have you heard what the world's largest employer is doing at one of its stores to keep their profits high and their salaries to their employees unfairly low?

One Wal-Mart store in Ohio is sponsoring a food drive; asking underpaid workers to contribute food items to underpaid workers so they can afford to have food on Thanksgiving.

This is just one of many things that Wal-Mart and other Mega Corporations do to avoid paying their employees a fair and decent salary.

This Wal-Mart situation is indicative of what is so terribly wrong with our country and what is getting worse by the second.

If you are not rich, powerful or well connected, the deck has always been stacked against you. However, previously in this country, there was more wiggle room for people who were willing to work hard, make sacrifices and delay immediate self gratification to succeed.

However, now! The deck has been stacked so high against Average American Citizens who work for a living, that it is virtually impossible to move into the Middle Class if you are Poor, or into the wealthy class if you are Middle Class.

And unfortunately, this is not just a coincidence.

This is a well contrived plan that is designed by the rich who have Conservative Politicians and Media Personalities in their hip pockets.

You constantly hear Conservatives complaining about the National Debt, Budgets and the danger that these conditions are creating for our National Security and Future Generations. However, the notion that we are spending too much to help people who cannot help themselves is total BS.

You hear over and over again in attacks against Progressives and Liberals who give a damn about people other than just themselves that Liberals are destroying the country as a result of outrageous spending on Entitlement Programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran's Benefits, Food stamps and now the Affordable Care Act.

However, have you ever heard any of these same Conservative Voices complaining about billions of dollars in subsidies, (Welfare), given to rich family farmers, mega corporations like Pharmaceutical Companies, Oil Companies and a host of others?

Do you hear these Conservative Voices complaining about companies like Wal-Mart and McDonalds's encouraging their employees to take advantage of state and federal programs designed to help those who are living in poverty?

Hell No you don't.

You know why?

It's because these mega corporations own them, and line their pockets to protect them, and they use poor people who are blinded by hatred or ignorance to fight against programs that they themselves can really benefit from.

In other words, through lies and fear, they convince these people to vote against their own best interests.

That's like volunteering yourself, your family and your community for extinction.

However, Republicans are very good at lying to the American People to keep their pockets lined by these Corporate Entities, because they are greedy and would rather destroy this country and the majority of the people in it, rather than just accepting their already adequate salaries and political contributions.

The only way these companies can continue to get away with the violations that they commit against humanity is with the cooperation and assistance from people in our government.

McDonald's also encouraged their employees to apply for Public Assistance, and published a website instructing its employees on how to live on a budget with such suggestions as buy bruised fruits and vegetables and to “Sing away stress: Singing along to your favorite songs can lower your blood pressure.”

“Break it up: Breaking food into pieces often results in eating less and still feeling full.”

“Quit complaining: Stress hormone levels rise by 15% after ten minutes of complaining.”

But because this website was exposed to the public and generated so much outrage, McDonald's was forced to take that website down.

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This is why I always try to impress upon those who are inclined to read what I write to never be quiet about injustice and attacks against humanity by greedy, corrupt and dishonest corporations, politicians, judges, doctors, lawyers etc.

Because if we don't raise hell to affect change, then no change will ever occur.

All positive changes in this country became a reality as a result of the actions of the people.

So the next time you hear Conservatives whining about inflated budgets and deficit crises because the government provides poor, sick and elderly people with assistance that does not even put a dent in the national deficit, remember that at the same time they are doing this, they are also fighting to protect Mega Corporation's rights to implement slave labor programs, poison our environment and ship the few jobs that we do have left in America somewhere else where children and adults work under horrific conditions for pennies an hour.

The problem is not that we don't have enough money to help those who cannot help themselves, the problem is that those who already have it all, want more, and the Republican Party and Conservatives are all about protecting these rich and the powerful people, while ignoring and lying to Average Americans.

And only Average American Citizens United can stop it.

G.R.C.