Wal Mart increases starting wage

[The Grand Nudger]

Yep, the corporate lobbyists have excelled at this for decades. When they see that the workers are getting restless they throw them just enough crumbs to give them a false sense of security but it always ends up in debt down the road and the top still ends up getting richer.

That may be so, but most of what I wrote concerned the business reality of walmart, who isn't throwing peanuts at their employees to keep them from being restless, but to entice the employees of target to jump ship.  It's an attempt to poach labor on the cheap from the competition, not placate the rabble.  Walmart is steadfast in it's position on them.   Fuck em, they'll work for poverty wages. 

What I'm trying to stress is that nothing about this tax deal or the lobbyists in question has anything to do with wage increases or bonuses at walmart.  The workers aren't getting -any- of those peanuts.  Those peanuts were meant for someone else. If I wanted to present an example of workers benefiting from the tax break I would pick something else, because this example is entirely the opposite of that. Walmart, after having availed itself of a tax windfall, is laying off employees. A 275 million dollar cut on labor alone which offsets the proposed wage increase.