I think that looking at Jamie Oliver's show as attempting to be a real solution to the school lunch/big corporate farm/food subsidy issues in AMerica is like looking at Extreme Makeover Home Edition as attempting to be a solution for poverty housing. It's sensational TV that will get some people to do something, but will more than anything attempt to entertain American's sitting on their couches.
And Biggest Loser used to be less intense and it was cancelled. WHat they do now is extreme and monitored by drs. and medical staff, but no way is a lot of it in any way shape or form reality. The trainers at least do hone up to that and often talk about how much they hate the "game". I love the show.
Oh, no. I know their business practices. It's just about how desperate this community is.
I hope something else replaces it. But I'm not confident of that.
but for starters Walmart doesn't hire *anyone* full time anymore so they don't have to pay benefits.
Well then thank god for Obamacare and Social Security.
Man, you'd think most folks in the South would wise up to the fact that they'd benefit from voting Democrat.
Oh, no. I know their business practices. It's just about how desperate this community is.
I understand that. ::sigh:: Such a clusterfuck it all is.
Forgot to say - cutiehead Matilda! Love those pics.
but for starters Walmart doesn't hire *anyone* full time anymore so they don't have to pay benefits.
I don't think this is actually true
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(not that I love their business practices, but things do get exaggerated.
Man, you'd think most folks in the South would wise up to the fact that they'd benefit from voting Democrat.
And you singled out the South because...?
I like eating chicken. Chickens were mean to my mom. NOMNOMNOM.
HA! This is so my stance!
Grandma is here in Noah's bedroom wrapping up his gifts. So adorable.
And you singled out the South because...?
It's where Wal-Mart is from and they dominate the market down there.
Perkins, that page is very, very misleading. For example, it states that 95% of its employees have healthcare. What they fail to tell you is that only a fraction of that number is actually through Walmart. Most of its employees who have healthcare are on Medicaid or other sources.
Also SIX months before you're allowed to enroll in their healthplan? And a year for part timers? Gah.
Such a clusterfuck it all is.
Yup. And they do do the full time, it's just carefully allocated.
I
do
wish everyone would stop calling it Obamacare. For one thing, that's polarizing. For another, it's polarizing and calls out the crazies. And it ain't great. A start, at least. TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE OMG TYRANNYFASCISMHITLER.
OK, sorry, just channeling the crazies.
