These days Wal*Mart does offer insurance. Of course, it covers nearly nothing and costs the moon, so nearly none of the line employees get it. But technically, they do offer insurance. :rolleyes:
Actually, WalMart crunched the numbers and figured out that a National Health Care system will save them money over even the cheap and most useless insurance they offer.
Of course they did. That way they wouldn’t have to offer insurance at all, at least for your average employee on the floor, which would mean more money for corporate. :rolleyes: They’re more than happy to help you sign up for Medicaid and food stamps already, so a more comprehensive federal program would shove even more of the costs off of them and onto the government (not that I object to universal health care, quite the opposite, but their motive is quite clear).
Okay, this is from an uber-liberal who’s getting his master’s degree in English, so I’m about as useless a leach on society as there can be (until it comes time to teach your kid English, Mister MBA snob!):
Your brother said
Your response at this point should be:
“And what’s so wrong with a socialist society? Of course that’s what I’d prefer, it’s what all us liberals would prefer. Don’t you understand that pure socialism – not that Russian or Chinese crap, but real, honest-go-Og SOCIALISM fits with a free market economy perfectly? Your econ professors would have told you at one time that a democratic government and a free market economy are self-negating! Go back to your textbooks and look it up!”
Trust me, his head will explode, and it will make Thanksgiving at your house so much more fun this year!