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nebris in the_recession

Walmart's midnight baby formula bread line

Sep 22, 2010 15:01

Americans are poor and hungry. Maybe now is not the time to be cutting government funding for food stamps?

By Andrew Leonard

A comment by Bill Simon, CEO of Walmart's U.S. operations, made last week at the Goldman Sachs Retail Conference, is getting tons of play in blogland:
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mushroom104 September 22 2010, 22:06:43 UTC

What I want to know: how many of those people are Walmart employees?

nebris September 22 2010, 22:35:34 UTC

No small number I expect, mostly so-called 'retirees', who now find that they cannot retire.

~M~

jsl32 September 22 2010, 23:51:12 UTC

this is why breastfeeding activism is so incredibly important. the overwhelming majority of those mothers could use the freed up money/subsidy to buy other food essentials or simply other essentials with slight modifications to existing welfare/food stamp programs.

it is ridiculous how people cheerfully let the poor end up over a barrel with infant formula.