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Wal-Mart Should Pay Its Fair Share for Health Care

Target: Your State Governor
Sponsored by: WakeUpWalMart.com

We have a health care crisis in America and morally bankrupt corporations, like Wal-Mart, are contributing to this crisis by failing to live up to their responsibilities.

By paying poverty-level wages and poor benefits in order to increase profitability, Wal-Mart has over 600,000 workers without company health care. In fact 1 out of every 2 children of Wal-Mart workers lives without health care or relies on public programs.

In response to this crisis, a grassroots movement to pass the "Fair Share For Health Care" Act has begun. This law would require dead-beat corporations to provide a minimum health care benefit to their employees or be forced to pay into state health care funds so taxpayers aren't forced to subsidize a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Ask your Governor to reform the way Wal-Mart type businesses behave in your state by enacting Fair Share For Health Care legislation.

deadline: 11-29-2006
goal: 10,000

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We have a health care crisis in America. Large corporations, like Wal-Mart, are contributing to this crisis by failing to live up to their responsibilities.

By paying sub-standard wages and benefits in order to increase profitability, large corporations are shifting costs onto taxpayers by forcing employees to rely on publicly funded health care programs and for other public assistance services. Despite $10 billion in net profits, in almost every state where data has been released, Wal-Mart leads all companies with the most employees on taxpayer-funded public health assistance.

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In response to this crisis, I call upon you to initiate a “Fair Share For Health Care” bill in the legislature. A "Fair Share Health Care" bill will help expand health care coverage by requiring the biggest companies in our state to either provide decent health care to employees, or reimburse the state for the increases in taxpayer-funded public health assistance.

Sincerely,
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We signed the “Wal-Mart Should Pay Its Fair Share for Health Care” petition!

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10:27 pm PDT, Mar 18, Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin

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9:30 pm PST, Dec 21, Name not displayed, Texas

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3:53 am PDT, Oct 18, Kaytie Irvine, California

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4:23 pm PDT, Oct 17, Name not displayed, Colorado

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5:39 am PDT, Aug 28, Dogan Ozkan, Turkey

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4:09 pm PDT, Aug 25, Julie Nelson, North Carolina
I think it is wrong that the Wal-Mart corporation makes billions of dollars every year and is not required to provide affordable health benefits for employees. I am absolutely appalled at their reliance on government assistance programs and think they should be held accountable for abusing the system. It is the responsibility of the government officials to investigate these abuses and protect the taxpayers' dollars. Wal-Mart should not be allowed government subsidies and should be punished for immoral business practices.

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6:15 pm PDT, Jun 23, Dana Szemereta, North Carolina

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12:24 am PDT, Jun 13, Tina Florell, Sweden

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3:58 am PDT, Jun 6, Sherry Horne Taylor, North Carolina
THE RICHEST RETAILER IN THE WORLD AND YOU TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEES LIKE SERFS. HOW CAN THIS BE ALLOWED BY ANY OF OUR NATION'S LEADERS? WHERE ARE YOU IN REGARD TO STOPPING THE INJUSTICES WAL-MART DOLES OUT TO ITS EMPLOYEES, THE ENVIRONMENT, THEIR DISREGARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BUILDING ON SACRED MONUMENTS AND ARCHAELOGOLY SITES. SUB-STANDARD WAGES AND BENEFITS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. HOW WOULD LIKE TO END UP IN THIS CATEGORY OF AMERICA?

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7:58 am PDT, May 24, Nicky Elizabeth, Maine

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3:20 pm PDT, Apr 25, Melissa Bardwell, Washington

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7:45 pm PDT, Apr 13, Victoria Thomas, Wyoming

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8:26 pm PST, Dec 27, Dida El-Sourady, North Carolina

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12:27 pm PST, Dec 13, Joseph Klawiter, Virginia

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9:21 am PST, Dec 11, Name not displayed, Iowa
It is not fair.

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8:40 pm PST, Dec 8, Patrick J. scott, Wisconsin

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5:53 pm PST, Dec 6, Jennie Boatman, Texas

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8:43 pm PDT, Oct 5, Lynne Stanford, Texas

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11:04 am PDT, Sep 23, Emily MacDonald, Pennsylvania

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2:41 pm PDT, Sep 7, Julie Kleinert, Utah

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12:28 pm PDT, Sep 5, Melissa Dawson Chapman, Michigan

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7:14 pm PDT, Aug 15, John R. Eiden, Wisconsin

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8:28 am PDT, Aug 9, Robin Kivett, Kansas

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11:57 pm PDT, Jul 2, Margaret Goederer, Ohio

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8:35 am PDT, Jul 2, Mustang Beam, Montana
I am a former Wal-Mart worker. Need I say more.

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5:54 pm PDT, Jun 29, Anthony Bailey, Indiana
It is very stupid for these companies to pay close to minimum wage when gas costs around 3$ a gallon. For some people it may cost them more to even get to work. I think the minimum wage should be raised to 10$ an hour to help those in poverty. These greedy companies can afford it, The minimum wage has been the same for years yet inflation rises, that my friend is a bunch of bullshit.

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7:51 am PDT, Jun 26, Stephanie Lessard, New Hampshire

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10:03 pm PDT, Jun 15, Kelly S. McDaniel, South Carolina

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1:58 am PDT, Jun 12, Elaine Secondo, Connecticut
They are getting rich while the employees are having more financial difficulities.

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7:30 am PDT, May 6, Name not displayed, Greece

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12:14 pm PDT, Apr 30, Quimby F. Yaddleskoot, Connecticut
Down with Wal-mart!!!

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2:06 pm PDT, Apr 23, Name not displayed, California

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7:35 am PDT, Apr 22, Lorie Gols, Massachusetts

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1:00 pm PDT, Apr 18, Ryan Francis, California

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1:00 am PST, Mar 27, Steve Klein, Canada

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5:17 pm PST, Mar 23, Christine Kasten, Arizona

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10:30 pm PST, Mar 15, Corina Brandeen, Wisconsin

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10:13 am PST, Mar 14, Robyn Landis , Washington

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1:50 pm PST, Mar 6, Karen Heath, Kansas

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11:25 am PST, Mar 6, Angela Culver, Texas

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11:38 am PST, Mar 4, Eugenie MontBlanc, California
People or organizations should not be allowed to become excesssively rich at the expense of others, particularly their workers. If you all become rich together, then that's great. But WalMart employees are not rich. It boggles my mind that people who work for one of the richest companies in the country do not even have health care. How can this settle right with the people at the top of the WalMart chain?! Maybe we need to begin funding brain testing to figure out why people are so cruel to each other, then we can bring in the CEO's of WalMart and all of the other terrible corporations for brain adjustments. Instead of brain surgery, I suppose it would be cheaper to legally force WalMart to pay for employee health care. Please do it.

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4:28 pm PST, Mar 3, Ryan Mcdaniel, Washington

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4:23 pm PST, Mar 3, Gary Jones, New Mexico

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5:05 pm PST, Mar 1, Stacey Dudek, Pennsylvania

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10:34 am PST, Feb 28, Andrey Tavera, New York

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8:22 pm PST, Feb 26, Sassy Albee, Texas

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10:42 pm PST, Feb 25, Tammy Jung, California

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10:24 am PST, Feb 24, Michael Dalterio, Massachusetts

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8:36 am PST, Feb 8, Wendi Prince, Georgia

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2:16 pm PST, Feb 5, Name not displayed, Illinois

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11:21 pm PST, Feb 4, Becky Davis, North Carolina
they are not being responsible employers

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