YES! It will further motivate workers to fight back.
20%
YES! Everyone should be angry over more corporate welfare.
80%

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turk3y5h007's picture
turk3y5h007 13 years 18 weeks ago

i have a couple huge problims with this poll

A) there is no "NO"

B) stop talking about corparations as if there people "walmart" did not cut health coverage walmart is a company nothing more then a simple peice of paper thats it nothing more it is the CEO's that do this

for someone who always says corparations are not people and you want to push back on this idea so hard you like saying that walmart and other companies do things. everytime you say walmart did something your just humanizing them and it may not be in a good way but its still humanizing so please push back against this idea that a corparation can do harm it cant the people that running it are its time to start DEhumanizing those monsters

just like guns dont kill people people kill people same with companies

Ed Gutierrez-Perry's picture
Ed Gutierrez-Perry 13 years 18 weeks ago

Good point, still need to change the laws that govern them, in a word, govern them so they'll behave.

arky12's picture
arky12 13 years 18 weeks ago

While yelling at their bought and paid for elected representatives to cut social welfare, these billion dollar corporations are relying heavily on the very programs they want cut for their own employees who rely on them because they're not paid a living wage. I worked for Walmart for awhile, mostly after I started collecting SS insurance benefit payments, so I didn't rely on the job for income or health insurance, but I saw first hand how every year one benefit after another was cut for employees while corporate profits soared. It should not take a genius to put two and two together and link fewer employee benefits and lower wages to increased profits for the corporations. They are simply externalizing their costs to the taxpayer.

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