Walmart Asks For Thanksgiving Donations To Supplement Its Employees
By Sara Lee Pillsbury, CPW News Service
Most people do not
know that Sam Walton’s father made his fortunes from foreclosing on American
farmers during the Great Depression. In
keeping with this history and tradition, Walmart is asking its customer base to
help supplement the Thanksgiving cheer of its employees during the 2013 holiday
season.
“This is an ‘unlucky
13 thing’ isn’t it?” asked Festus Pusley of Hope, Arkansas. “I mean this is like an April 1st thing
that they are pulling off for kicks….a kind of joke during 2013? Like, if you are unlucky enough to be alive
in 2013 working at Walmart, then we’re ballsy enough to throw you guys a
bitter bone?” asked Pusley.
Home of Sam Walton's youngest daughter, Nancy, a former owner of the St. Louis Blues. "Walmart has me singing the blues just as we're going into Thanksgiving and Christmas," said Pusley. |
Pusley is
organizing members of his grass roots group, Grass Roots, to visit every Sunday between
now and New Year’s Day, the Bentonville and other Arkansas churches where they
know that members of the Walton family worship in order to drop grass and hay
shavings at their feet.
“Marie Antoinette
the royalist said to the poor French ‘Let them eat cake’. But whose cake was it? Her’s or theirs? That’s right. It was theirs not hers. Such is the progress we have made in our new high
tech age of enlightenment,” said Pusley who said that he anticipated that Walmart would experience record shoplifting figures in 2013's last quarter financial results.
Meanwhile, Suwhetti Mozbozim, a 14 year old garment worker in rural Sri Lanka, has asked that Walmart consider also taking up a collection of three cents per garment sold and passing it on to hungry undie-stitchers in his hometown....a 20% pay increase in their hourly wage.
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Meanwhile, Suwhetti Mozbozim, a 14 year old garment worker in rural Sri Lanka, has asked that Walmart consider also taking up a collection of three cents per garment sold and passing it on to hungry undie-stitchers in his hometown....a 20% pay increase in their hourly wage.
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