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I've always wondered that if these programs were cut people would begin to really demand fairer wages and everything else. As it stands now unfair wage + assistance gets them to the point where they are comfortable enough to not riot.

Almost like you can blame the assistance for the unfair wage in a sense.

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On that note, you may find it interesting to hear that Wal-Mart employees are the single largest national group of food stamp recipients.

Yes. It's a con and it upsets me. Entities like Wal-Mart basically conned the US Government into paying their employees.

There's nothing really special about what Wal-Mart is doing, though: they're just following the minimum wage. Of course, as soon as anyone talks about raising the minimum wage, people start screaming about how that will kill all jobs forever...