Wal-Mart store holds a canned food drive... for their own workers

[Dakota Bob]

...Did capitalism just jump the shark?

[Iczerfour]

...Did capitalism just jump the shark?

i also think it ate the sharks soul too.

[SpaceProg]

*Puts on T-shirt of Chihuahua dressed like Che Guevara*  VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

[Kat S.]

It reminds me of when celebrities or wealthy people try to raise fundraisers for a cause or a family(ies) in plight.  It makes me, and probably many others wonder, "Why can't you finance this yourself? You have enough money."

I can understand picking and choosing the causes you believe in, not being an easy touch and bled dry of money, and/or using your celebrity or status as a means to bring attention to a problem instead of using money as a temporary band-aid, but I would expect these people to bankroll most of the fundraiser or drive instead of relying mostly on the generosity of others not as wealthy.

I hate how politics have infiltrated Christianity and how fundamentalist Christianity has infiltrated politics.  This story is a perfect example of that including the comments section.  So much for what Jesus Christ taught to his disciples about giving to the poor and needy.

[SpaceProg]

Even the celebs/rich fatcats that DO give out of their own pocket, I'm pretty cynically sure that they only do it for the tax deductions.  Usually has got to be something in it for them.  I hope a celeb/fatcat someday proves me wrong in that.

I have next to no spending money right now, but when I did, I donated and gave... but I didn't keep any tally for tax day.  That's always irked me when rich people did that.

Meh, I just got up from a nap and am grouchy.  Never mind me.

[clockworkgirl21]

It actually gets worse.

The people against raising the minimum wage also tend to be against letting employees like these have any welfare. The solution? Find a better job or starve to death.

[Vypernight]

Aren't those morons also in favor of cutting education?  So it's basically, "Go to school and get a job (even though we made it more difficult to do so) you lazy stuppid bums!"

[SpaceProg]

Social Darwinism... but when you kill all the 'lower folks', who'll be the lowly ones then?  There'll be more deemed so, and more, and more, until the upper elite are fighting over who's going to make them a cheeseburger.  Then they'll starve because they don't know how.  Hyperbole, I know, but it's a suiting analogy, I think.

[Lt. Fred]

I actually doubt it. I don't think Americans are stupid enough to simply allow themselves to be murdered by a new aristocracy, even one made up of "their betters", "job creators" ect. It's far more likely that Limbaugh, Beck ect are either deliberately or ignorantly driving bloody communist revolution.

Now, as a liberal, that concerns me. Unlike these feudalists, I actually believe in capitalism. So this is troubling either way.

[RavynousHunter]

Hopefully, its more a revolution of the sane than it is a pure communist revolt.  Attempting true communism in America, the extreme anti-communist mentality aside, would be a fucking nightmare.  Maybe socialist, but that's still pushing it quite a bit.  If anything we'd probably fandangle a way to become a direct democracy, with a splash of meritocracy.  Then again, that's just me being perhaps a little too hopeful.

[chitoryu12]

Hopefully, its more a revolution of the sane than it is a pure communist revolt.  Attempting true communism in America, the extreme anti-communist mentality aside, would be a fucking nightmare.  Maybe socialist, but that's still pushing it quite a bit.  If anything we'd probably fandangle a way to become a direct democracy, with a splash of meritocracy.  Then again, that's just me being perhaps a little too hopeful.

Attempting true communism anywhere in a population the size of a nation is a fucking nightmare. The system works on a small scale, like a village or an independent state the size of a town, but as soon as you try to apply it to a nation everything just falls apart. There's a good reason no communist nation has ever managed to be prosperous, have a happy populace, AND avoid human rights violations. It goes directly against human nature in more than one area.

Karl Marx was a dingbat xenophobe who didn't design a system of government any better than. His "manifesto" is a bunch of half-baked nonsense that can't be implemented in reality and often never talks about important aspects: for instance, when he says that "rebels" should have their property confiscated, how does he classify a rebel? He doesn't. The only thing to do is either expunge that from your government or (as most Marxist nations did) classify anyone even vaguely rebellious or non-conformist an enemy of the state.

[booley]

It reminds me of when celebrities or wealthy people try to raise fundraisers for a cause or a family(ies) in plight.  It makes me, and probably many others wonder, "Why can't you finance this yourself? You have enough money."

….

Except when celebrities do this, they generally aren't' seen as the source of the problem.

I mean maybe if the Kardashians hold a fund raiser to help children exploited by their own parents…..

[booley]

Social Darwinism... but when you kill all the 'lower folks', who'll be the lowly ones then?  There'll be more deemed so, and more, and more, until the upper elite are fighting over who's going to make them a cheeseburger.  Then they'll starve because they don't know how.  Hyperbole, I know, but it's a suiting analogy, I think.

Makes you wonder if that's also why they also tend to be against abortion and birth control.

The value of sheep is that they are stupid, plentiful and tasty.