Worker at Walmart to be visited by Obama speaks out about low wages

[Newsjock]

Source: Mountain View Voice

News of President Obama's visit to Mountain View's Walmart Friday prompted an employee of the store to speak up about not being able to pay for food, rent and healthcare on her wages.

"After four years working at Walmart in Mountain View, I am bringing home about $400 every two weeks (I'd like to get more hours, but I'm lucky if I work 32 hours a week)," said Mountain View Walmart employee Pam Ramos in an article posted on Salon.com today. "That's not enough to pay for bills, gas and food. All I can afford to eat for lunch is a cup of coffee and a bag of potato chips."

Ramos says she wants Obama to know that she sleeps on the floor of her son's home, keeps all of her belongings in her car and cannot afford medical expenses, despite Walmart's health insurance benefits.

... Ramos says she is scared for herself and her fellow workers and "the direction that companies like Walmart are taking our country" and for what she calls "the Walmart economy."

Read more: http://mv-voice.com/news/2014/05/08/impoverished-mv-walmart-worker-speaks-out

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Aw, c'mon. If they were really trying to turn us into a "Walmart Economy" they'd try to to take over

.... public schools first.

Say what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/us/a-walmart-fortune-spreading-charter-schools.html?_r=0

[jtuck004]

2. “It is sadly inappropriate to give dessert to a child who has had no meal".

So said Charles Emerson Winchester III...

...or chortle about how efficient putting solar panels up is when it is the food, housing, shelter, educational opportunity, infrastructure of their country, the billions from their labor paid as welfare to be pocketed by the owners...the lives of those workers, homeless, bought those panels.

Maybe he should have suggested that it would be better to be moral instead of efficient and buy a few of them a home.

But that doesn't get your party votes, perhaps.