posted November 19, 2013 12:37 AM            

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Activists have long criticized Walmart for failing to pay its employees living wages, and instead relying on the state to step in and pay for the healthcare and food of workers. In Canton, Ohio, another Walmart recently demonstrated this kind of corporate welfare by holding a food drive—for its own employees.

“Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner,” reads a sign accompanied by several plastic bins.

Understandably, the food drive has sparked outrage in the area.

“That Walmart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers—to me, it is a moral outrage,” Norma Mills, a customer at the store, told the Plain Dealer.

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/177241/cleveland-wal-mart-holds-food-drive-its-own-employees

posted November 19, 2013 11:36 AM            

Wake up, Low Information Voters and smell the coffee

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posted November 19, 2013 01:54 PM            

As most without parasitic paranoia knows, it has nothing to do with govermental regulations.

posted November 19, 2013 02:37 PM            

That is not nice.

I am quoting that

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posted November 19, 2013 03:48 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
Lol is it nice calling those you don't like morons? That is what Rush means by "low info voters" - for your information...he has said so himself so I assume you, who follow in his wake, knew that already.

I, however, use it literally...you are very low on info since you prefer the reader's digest version handed you by Limbaugh et co. Yet you persist in insulting people for disagreeing with you...sigh.

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You, on the other hand, are sweetness and light

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posted November 20, 2013 08:09 AM            

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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
I agree. I don't think most of the Conservatives I know should be trying to get away with applying that particular label.

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AG,
I don`t think many conservatives do but right wingers are hot to trot for the term.

Randall, proofs in the pudding:

Limbaugh added that Obama is "a symbol of the new low-information America" and "it's only a low-information voter -- we used to call them morons -- that could think he's outside politics." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 12/19/12, via Media Matters]

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/01/07/25-examples-that-prove-rush-limb augh-is-a-low-i/192085

posted November 20, 2013 09:44 AM            

Low info voter or LIV

Meaning

Some low-information voters' views are more moderate than those of high-information voters, they are less likely to vote, and are looking for a candidate they find personally appealing. They tend to be swing voters, and they tend to vote split-ticket more than well-informed voters do, researchers say because they lack a coherent ideology

Linguist George Lakoff has written that the term is a pejorative mainly used by American liberals to refer to people who vote conservative against their own interests, and assumes they do it because they lack sufficient information. Liberals, he said, attribute the problem in part to deliberate Republican efforts at misinforming voters.
Thirty-year Republican House of Representatives and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren, in a 2011 article titled "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult", characterized low-information voters as anti-intellectual and hostile-to-science "religious cranks", and claimed Republicans are deliberately manipulating LIVs to undermine their confidence in American democratic institutions.

A 2012 paper by six American political scientists called "A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics" challenged the idea that Republicans want a low-information electorate, and argued instead that both major American parties do. Noting that 95% of incumbents in the highly polarized House of Representatives win re-election despite voters' preference for centrist representation, the paper theorizes that voters' infrequent penalizing of extremist behaviour represents not approval, but a lack of attention and information. This, the paper says, is supported by the fact that when congressional districts and media markets overlap to create more informed electorates, extremist House members are at much greater risk for defeat. The paper proposes that in the American political system, interest groups, and activists are the key actor, and the electorate is uninformed and bamboozled

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_information_voter

posted November 20, 2013 04:40 PM            

But in cut and dry cases such as this they are pretty good.

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This, the paper says, is supported by the fact that when congressional districts and media markets overlap to create more informed electorates, extremist House members are at much greater risk for defeat. The paper proposes that in the American political system, interest groups, and activists are the key actor, and the electorate is uninformed and bamboozled

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posted November 20, 2013 04:45 PM            

Many economists have written papers of how wally world could pay a decent wage without compromising the bottom line, or! the investor.

posted November 22, 2013 08:10 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Since when is it wrong to help people have a good holiday season?

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The lefties make what is wrong what serves their purposes

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posted November 22, 2013 11:46 AM            

Walmart gives so many people jobs that they keep the economy afloat. I can't believe you actually work for a bank.

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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
The Waltons could take care of any employee's special need directly for perpetuity, but yeah it's more appropriate to leave the task to poor people who can relate more with having financial issues.

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posted November 22, 2013 11:59 AM            

Half of everything left after you've made yourself comfortable will bring even more your way - remember? Not paying the least you can get away with for services rendered...

Many companies the conservatives feel sorry for here and "protect" from higher wages not only pau a good deal more abroad for the same jobs, but enjoy higher profit margins there too.

posted November 22, 2013 12:12 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
The Waltons employ them, which is more than enough, since having a job in this time of Obomanomics is a blessing. Liberals only like giving when it's them coming up with the idea...and when there's lots of publicity. America is based on free market capitalism, which means that you don't get six figures for being a cashier. Wake up, Socialists.

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So true! Well said!

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