I tend to be a rather loyal customer, especially when it comes to doing business with a company that shares my limited-government/free-market/anti-union philosophy. So I’ve been a steadfast Wal-Mart shopper for many, many years now, venturing into Target only if I couldn’t find what I was looking for at Wal-Mart – which was rare.
And then along came this big announcement last week: “The nation’s largest employer has broken from the business community,” reported The Hill on Tuesday, “with Wal-Mart’s endorsement of a legal requirement that all employers provide health benefits to their workers.”
This is horrifically bad public policy. However, using the government to force all of its smaller competitors to provide expensive health insurance to their employees is a GREAT deal for Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart may have thought it a smart business move to assist the Obama administration in its march to socialize our health care system, but at least one exclusive Wal-Mart shopper that I know will no longer be shopping exclusively at Wal-Mart. In fact, I bought my daughter a summer dress and some new patio cushions at Target just yesterday.
Wal-Mart’s leftward march may be cutting off its nose to spite its face. If the company’s executives continue to undermine the efforts of limited-government conservatives, who will be on its side when the big, bad labor wolf shows up at its door again?
This is why I don’t shop Walmart: anti-worker. Plus, I would be never caught dead in a store full of low quality merchandise. Goodwill has a better selection than Walmart, would never dress my kids in Walmart inferior clothing. Walmart is for welfare recipients.
Sam Walton is spinning in his grave right now…
As Walt Disney, Henry Ford, and a host of other astute businessmen/capitalists whose legacy will be marred by the morons who inherited the reins of their empires…
Too bad, Keith, you have not a clue what you are talking about, but just keep on drinking the Kool Aide and spouting the left’s talking points. Maybe one day, you will come up with an orginal thought.
I work part-time at Wal Mart and full time as a CCSD teacher, so I just want that out there and I don’t spout the party line, even if I knew what the party line was.
Fact is that Wal Mart offers health insurance to all of it’s employees, full or part time. You can get the basic insurance, mostly catastrophic to pretty much, full medical insurance.
But I do agree that Wal Mart is turning left- their views on the enviroment is pretty disgusting. And their views on health insurance just isn’t right, either.
Because Wal Mart hires so many people who are generally unemployable- high school drop outs, no GED, disabled indivuduals, criminal record, people on welfare etc, that many people already are on the public dole when they are hired and Wal Mart helps them take them off the public dole and on to private insurance, that should count as something.
Like i said, I don’t spout the company line, I just think this is a business decesion