When I was working at Walmart last year I was making around 13.90 an hour. I could not pay my bills no matter what I did. Current pay at companies like Walmart is not nearly enough and has to change. I am really hoping Bernie Sanders does become Secretary of Labor because he has the potential to change the lives of so many. It is long past time when this should have been addressed.
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Between lack of a pandemic response in the US and Walmart fucking me over I am literally facing being homeless soon. I have health issues that make covid19 potentially fatal to me and the only reason Walmart fired me was because I used their covid19 leave of absence policy. I literally gave this company almost 10 years of my life and they don't fucking care.
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If you want to talk about welfare states then please explain why red states are unable to pay their way and why blue states have to subsidize them? Democrats are not the issue here.
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And yet there is infighting in the GOP about Trump not conceding. Stop with the projection. It is fucking tiresome.
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Trillions upon trillions have been given to companies this past year as covid19 relief while the actual taxpayers got a few billion. It is disgusting and this 500 billion "skinny" bill Moscow Mitch is pushing has zero money for taxpayers and provides corporations immunity from covid19 related lawsuits. We are living in a failed state.
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UBI would have resolved most of the financial and economic issues caused by lockdowns but fucking morons would rather screech about "socialism" than support anything that could improve their lives.
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Walmart is notorious for scheduling full time associates less than 30 hours a week. When I was a support manager at Walmart I was constantly having to deal with various associates getting fucked over in terms of hours and were unable to pay their rent or bills or buy food. I went to salaried management everytime I got a complaint hoping they would give my people more hours but most of the time they just ignored me. My store as a result lost a large number of workers who were amazing and knew their shit and were great with customers. They were replaced with stupid teenagers who work like 10 hours a week who refuse to even do the bare minimum of their job.