Low
Wages. Always!
 Yes,
Walmart
employees are so underpaid that they require $2.66 billion
in government assistance each year in the form of Medicaid
and food stamps. In fact, in some stores as many as 80%
of the employees are on food stamps. So the low prices,
which
you really
don't always get, are
being subsidized by our tax dollars. Doesn't seem right,
somehow.
Meanwhile, Walmart CEO Michael Duke earns more in one
hour than a typical Walmart employee makes in an entire
year ($16,800 an hour vs. $13,650 a year.) It doesn't help
that the company is accused of engaging in wage theft
by refusing to pay proper overtime, refusing
to honor
the
minimum wage,
and making illegal paycheck deductions.
Walmart makes enough profits, over $15 billion a year,
to pay their employees well and still laugh all the way
to
the
bank. So why don't they?
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 Sunday
was Beloved Girlfriend's birthday so I baked her the cake
you see on your left. (Click pic for a larger version.)
I'd seen an example of one like it on the 'net and decided
I'd surprise her with a variant of my own design.
For the record, that's a triple chocolate fudge cake covered
in dark chocolate buttercream frosting topped with peanut
butter
M&M's and
ringed by Kit Kats. It is, by my clumsy estimation, about
three billion calories worth of dessert. If you decide
to make one yourself be sure and have plenty of insulin
handy.
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 One
last thing... If you're looking for clever, adorable, or
absolutely insane new web comics to obsess over please
check out
JL8, Nimona,
and/or Power
Nap.
=Lefty=
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