There's a family just moved in 4 houses down in a house that's S8 run by the children of the parents who recently died. Chick that lives there with her 4 kids, drives a newish Escalade. Baby Daddy (well, at least one of them) that shows up, drives a newish 5 series BMW. Always see them in new clothes. HowTF do I get a deal like that?
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Intellectual capability of career welfare individuals
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Texashiker
Lifer
A lady I used to work with has 2 children. The father and the mom were not married, but they lived together.
To the state she was a single mother with 2 children, so they qualified for food stamps. The kids also got free health insurance through medicaid.
By the time you pay for food and health insurance for a family, they were saving close to $1,000 every month.
Steeplerot
Lifer
This is hogwash, here at least.
We know here what car you drive, the plates, and your driving record. If your vehicle is worth more then 2k (or your bank account has more then 600$ -you cannot collect anything.)
So many anecdotal stories to prop up urban myths.
IF this is true, you have neighbors who are committing fraud. Do what you must.
Tell me your state/county in PM and I will provide you with the appropriate county authorities number.
That is if you are not making stuff up. Just like this whole mooching black welfare Cadillac queen story told for ages by you all. (a racist lie from a president of the USA you knowingly and so conveniently repeat)
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nehalem256
Lifer
That would seem to be an argument that these individuals have a high mental capability.
MrMuppet
Senior member
You suggesting it would, indicates that you don't. :awe: (These things are relative. Need to be more careful.)
nehalem256
Lifer
Umm Walmart would go bankrupt?
This is highly common. I personally know people who do this. To people they meet, they're Mr. and Mrs., even wear rings. To the Fed/State/local though, they're two seperate individuals. Legal address for one of the parties? A trusted relative (usually parents). Game Game Game away....
Texashiker
Lifer
I doubt it.
The walmart family would not be the 2nd richest family in the US, but they would still be rich.
If exxon can afford to pay its employees well, then so can companies like walmart.
Yep, its knowing how to play the system.
Keep in mind, this is IL, Crook Co. no less.
How are you going to know what car they own when their licenses are at their parents address and the cars are owned by them instead of the people committing fraud? How are you going to track bank account when they deal in cash, unreported (or, more accurately, vastly underreported)? How are you going to check bank accounts when the one they really use is in some elses name?
Why would I bother contacting the fraud hotline of my Co? Do you see all the people working for the Co.? Do you understand their job is to catch as little people as necessary? Where do you think they live and who do you think they're friends are? Report them....I never laughed so hard. Daily I am in 7-11, a gas station, the grocery store and I see people buying sh1t that never should be bought on their Links card. The problem is so widespread, so deep, so corrupt, it is past the unmanageable point and into the 'just is' point.
Abuse of the system is so common here, you can sit on a train and listen to women telling other women how to game the system. It'd be like this: Hey, there's a bank robbery going on! I'll call and report it! 'Hello, Mafia, I'm calling to report a bank robbery in progress' "Yes, we know about it, we're the ones allowing it to happen"
I think you have a very inflated sense of the fraud prevention capabilities of your system. You are either getting gamed consistently as well and are unaware, or, you happen to live in a place where few people really do need to game the system and so don't have the abuse.
Chuck
They might not be the smartest tools in the shed, but don't underestimate their ability to game the system(s). Totally burnt out losers can still whip your ass in Mortal Kombat, if they're highly practiced at it.
nehalem256
Lifer
From yahoo finance
Walmart has 2,200,000 Full time employees. The average associate makes 9-10/hr, so you want to give them a $5/hr raise say.
2,200,000 * 40hr/week * 50weeks/year * 5/hr = $22 billion in increased wage costs.
Walmart profits
Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): $16.08 billion
Market Cap/ PE ratio = $15.71 billion
Total Cash: 8.13 billion
Total debt: 54.82 billion.
Looks to me like in little more than a year they would be bankrupt.
Texashiker
Lifer
MrMuppet
Senior member
It wouldn't take a high mental capability to do that though lol.
Ok, lets do that. Poof! There went that money. Now come up with the other $21965M from somewhere. Where is that coming from?
EDIT: I agree with what you're saying though in principle. Executive salaries have been, and presently are, disgraceful.
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Right. And it takes almost no high mental capability to go fill out the forms your friends and good chance parents filled out and then get your "free" benefits. Address? Well, legal address is my parents (even though I live with my "wife" ((we're not officially married))). Vehicle? Don't own one (but I drive the one registered to my parents, that I give them money for). Bank account balance? Oh, low (well, the one that's in my name. The one in my parents or grandmas name that's mine, that one has some money in it).
See how that works? To the system you're barely scraping by. In Reality, you're livin large...
Texashiker
Lifer
How much did walmart pay out to share holders?
Saint Nick
Lifer
Drug dealing stacked with welfare = $$$
Whatever they owed them? Why does that matter? Shareholders put up money in hopes of getting a return back. If conditions were met for that to happen, shouldn't the shareholders get their reward for their risk?
Never know. They just busted another house at the end of our street with that. Which sorta sucks from an asthetic perspective, they actually fixed the house up a little and sometimes mowed the lawn once in a while. If only the guy two houses down from them would do the same. There's 2 foot high grass in his yard (although, I do give him credit: The one time I drove by, he was "mowing" his entire yard with a weed wacker. Not what I'd have picked, but, if that's all he had, at least he was doing it.)
Chuck
nehalem256
Lifer
$16 Billion is the max potential amount they have available for paying out to share holders.
You are ~$6 billion in the hole even assuming Walmart was nationalized.
Texashiker
Lifer
The last fortune 500 company I worked for, the shareholders got a better percentage return then the employees got raises.
How is that fair?
If walmart can find a way to drive competitors out of business, I am sure they can find a way to pay a liveable wage.
Simple solution - single payer healthcare.
Fair? There is nothing fair being an employee. Your employer doesn't have to be fair to you, at all. When you've got your kids championship soccer game tonight and you took today off, and there's an outage costing the company $1M an hour, and they tell you come in, now, to help fix it, and you say, Hey, no way, I've got off and it's my kids soccer game tonight, and they say, I don't care, come in, or be fired, is that fair?
No. But companies can, do, and will do stuff like that all the time.
Walmart finds a way to drive their competitors out of business by a great distribution system, low wages, and hard negotiation with suppliers. Coupled with the absolute greed, selfishness, and shortsightedness of the American buyer. Want to F over Walmart? Get their suppliers to tell Walmart they won't be giving WM preferential pricing over WM's competitors. Good luck with that...
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nehalem256
Lifer
How many Canadian citizens do you think get government healthcare they are not entitled to?
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