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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: Walmart, for Victory! [View all]

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
2. I have seen all those posters on the walls telling us how
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 02:34 PM
Jun 2016

much money the employees of Walmart have given to various charities. I have also seen that these donations may no be voluntarily.

So are the Walmart workers forced to donate to the Walmart politicians?

Walmart, for Victory! [View all] Octafish Jun 2016 OP
one more day.....n/t chillfactor Jun 2016 #1
Anything to say about the post? Octafish Jun 2016 #3
That's it. Get it out of your system. Maru Kitteh Jun 2016 #9
Nothing to get out. It's called free expression of ideas. Octafish Jun 2016 #10
Only business laserhaas Jun 2016 #12
The Press Octafish Jun 2016 #15
Did they consider it a business laserhaas Jun 2016 #17
Well, it's the news business... Octafish Jun 2016 #20
What is destroying this country is people looking the other way when they are confronted with the insta8er Jun 2016 #42
That's something you'll see demonstrated here very well... MrMickeysMom Jun 2016 #56
It's not walmarts job to raise the minimum wage, it's Congress. Congress knows underpaid americans Sunlei Jun 2016 #19
Please tell me you are not defending WalMart? Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #29
sure it's a moral duty but it's congresses JOB to raise federal minimum wage. Sunlei Jun 2016 #40
I thought Walmart increased the wages of all their employees yeoman6987 Jun 2016 #55
Truths won't disappear despite DU restrictions. panader0 Jun 2016 #4
^^^^^^ This times 10 ^^^^^ laserhaas Jun 2016 #13
... to the 10th power. closeupready Jun 2016 #22
+ eighty gazillion Scuba Jun 2016 #21
Infinity... bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #23
:) Infinity ...Plus 1 laserhaas Jun 2016 #24
...!100++++ 840high Jun 2016 #32
Thank you. nt dflprincess Jun 2016 #52
Time form e to leave this cesspool, where progressives have become an endangered species. zonkers Jun 2016 #60
This countdown of yours is so tiresome! 7wo7rees Jun 2016 #5
Yup...only the oppressive delight in oppressing laserhaas Jun 2016 #18
Help me I being oppressed on the Intertubes! snooper2 Jun 2016 #28
Why should you waste your beautiful mind, eh? RufusTFirefly Jun 2016 #53
I have seen all those posters on the walls telling us how jwirr Jun 2016 #2
That is an interesting question. I wonder if those on their Board of Directors knows the answer? Octafish Jun 2016 #6
This is really tiresome, you know. MineralMan Jun 2016 #7
What part is tiresome? Octafish Jun 2016 #8
It IS tiresome....We need to change politics so we have better choices Armstead Jun 2016 #11
We have a better choice with Bernie Sanders laserhaas Jun 2016 #16
It's called "an election". Sanders lost it Tarc Jun 2016 #26
Actually...the appropriate term laserhaas Jun 2016 #31
I do not think that word means what you think it means Tarc Jun 2016 #35
Votes weren't counted..polli g places blocked laserhaas Jun 2016 #36
This is not even remotely true Tarc Jun 2016 #38
It is highly disingeuous that Hillarians aren't complaining laserhaas Jun 2016 #50
K&R-lay down and take a snooze then MM, here's a tune for everyone that's "tired" bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #14
The Treatment Octafish Jun 2016 #34
When you tell sheep that they are sheep..they respond laserhaas Jun 2016 #41
Not as tiresome (and dishonest) as the 5 month pep fest dflprincess Jun 2016 #54
7/17/2015, running out of new material, so it's time to recycle old ones? Tarc Jun 2016 #25
If everybody knows it, how come no one talks about it? Octafish Jun 2016 #39
You tried playing this class warfare card in the primary Tarc Jun 2016 #43
Who do you think is winning the ''class warfare''? Octafish Jun 2016 #46
Pictures of Kissinger coming next? Clintons and Trump? Tarc Jun 2016 #47
Stating the facts isn't ''bashing.'' Octafish Jun 2016 #49
^^^^^^ This times 10 ^^^^^ laserhaas Jun 2016 #51
Actually that stupid Henry Ford quote is bullshit- He paid $5 a day so the didn't quit snooper2 Jun 2016 #27
You do know all jobs and hours SUCKED ass back then - right? Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #30
Tick Tock Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #33
BOOM laserhaas Jun 2016 #37
Tick tock...nt SidDithers Jun 2016 #44
Don't #bernout just yet MyNameGoesHere Jun 2016 #45
Don't forget, it costs the local community about a million dollars a year for each pdsimdars Jun 2016 #48
as demonstrated by Gilens and Page. "U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy" Agony Jun 2016 #57
$5 Billion in Political Contributions Bought Wall Street Freedom from Regulation, Restraint Octafish Jun 2016 #58
that 12 point checklist is golden Agony Jun 2016 #61
Clinton's Wall Street backers: We get it bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #59
The Clinton's controversial foundation (The Week June 2015) bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #62
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