Working these low wage jobs. These jobs that are for multinational multimillion dollar companies. And these Companies Continue to make money, however, their employees are just barely getting by. And these are folks who have families. You know, these arent teens, these are young adults. For the most part, the individuals who work at walmart, who work a lot of places you just described, or people who are either middle aged or people who already have, you know, kids at home, many of which are teens, some of which are younger. And this is how they get, but yeah, and its, and its in warren gunnels, actually, staff director and policy advisor for so there sanders agrees with you, especially when you tweeted the real looting in america is in the Walton Family becoming 63000000000. 00 richer during the pandemic. While paying wages so low, the get this number 1514541 of their workers and im states need food stamps all subsidized by u. S. Taxpayers. Yes, the Walton Family is the real well for qu
He either has to reverse these things or he keeps up. Thats a wrap up of the days top headlines for now, but you can always head to our web site, r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories. And many more. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show. And ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics. Sports business, im show business. Ill see you then. Greetings and salutation is the definition of the American Dream. By james, true slow, adams in 193131 was quite simply that quote, life should be better and richer for and fuller for everyone. With opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Now that is a sales pitch and its a beautiful dream. But as the late great, George Carlin observed the reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. Yes. Tragically the promise of a richer, fuller life regardless of social class or circumstances, is just not the actual reality.
State rice, great city, this least systemic dissent says so which we build as well. When watching the hawks are over the earth and im a crop. Yeah, man, the American Dream. Youve got to be asleep to believe theres the little darlings in the greatest lines ever. But the sub, the waking American Dream is that it seems like all our big corporations and our most common household names. All essentially make billions and millions and millions and millions of workers who are literally on food stamps or literally are on medicaid because thats they, they fall below the poverty line and have to have to use government subsidies to eat and get healthy. No, absolutely. I think that in terms of walmart, you know, reports have been coming out about them for a long time. Still, for anyone who assumed that maybe theyd get their act together. That clearly they have not in the numbers have only multiplied since the original reports came. I think that the more we see this, the more recognition there has t
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Small businesses are dead and j. P. L. Said chairman says this is fine because its fine this is fun to find a monkey beautiful again. Well this is fine you know the only solution they seem to have over and over is more money printing and the fed is at that again nonstop since 2008 really as paul says fed policies will absolutely not lead to more income inequality this is what he claimed last week while cities across america were on fire and notice that he said income inequality you know money printing does it causes asset prices to increase and tech Capital Gains to increase he didnt mention that he didnt mention the wealth gap so i did want to turn to a chart from pew and it shows the share of u. S. Aggregate wealth since 1983 to 2016 this is what the fed has been doing this is the upper income went from having 60 percent of all wealth in america back in 1903 to 179 percent and its probably much higher even now middle income has been the huge collapse as you see down from 32 percent t