{"id":10198,"date":"2009-10-02T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-07T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:06:59","slug":"fuzzy-math-that-would-make-enron-execs-blush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/02\/fuzzy-math-that-would-make-enron-execs-blush\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Math that Would Make Enron Execs Blush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who would you say is the most repugnant corporation in American corporate history?  Is it Enron, who gave record amounts<\/a> to the Bush-Cheney machine and bankrupt millions of investors?  Halliburton, the shameless war profiteer<\/a>?  Or Wal-Mart, the company that has done more than any other to drive down wages in America<\/a> and has set a new low for how it treats its employees?  <\/p>\n

It’s a tough choice.  The competition is fierce.  But lately I think Wal-Mart has been giving the others a run for their money, especially when it comes to cooking the books, deceiving the public with smoke-and-mirror statistics, and generally screwing over citizens and taxpayers.  It’s no secret that Wal-Mart treats its employees horribly, but Progress Ohio<\/a> has uncovered troublesome data showing that the retailer is costing the Buckeye State taxpayers tens of millions on health care and welfare.  <\/p>\n

You see, Wal-Mart claims<\/a> that only 2.6% of their workforce and their dependents rely on Medicaid – that appears to be a flat-out lie. If Wal-Mart’s figure is correct, we would expect only 1,385 Ohio employees to be on Medicaid.  However, more than 15,000 of Wal-Mart’s Ohio employees and their dependents are on the program.  Unless Wal-Mart’s Medicaid enrollees have 10 dependents each, Wal-Mart’s official number is suspect beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of dough in a state that is under a lot of economic stress.  Wal-Mart makes billions each year and Ohio is suffering mightily, yet Wal-Mart would rather enrich executives (4 out of 10 of the richest Americans are Waltons<\/a>) and send billions to China rather than provide decent benefits to hard working Americans in Ohio.  What is wrong with this picture? <\/p>\n

If this concerns you as much as it does me, please join me at WakeUpWalmart.com  <\/a>to help get our priorities straight in Ohio and America once again.  <\/p>\n

The Ohio Benefits Report has been altered from the original publication. Appropriate changes were made to this diary to reflect those changes on Oct. 6, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who would you say is the most repugnant corporation in American corporate history?  Is it Enron, who gave record amounts<\/a> to the Bush-Cheney machine and bankrupt millions of investors?  Halliburton, the shameless war profiteer<\/a>?  Or Wal-Mart, the company that has done more than any other to drive down wages in America<\/a> and has set a new low for how it treats its employees?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1111],"class_list":["post-10198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1111"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}