Stabbone and McGraw: Not Trickling Down

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Not Trickling Down

Just glancing over the Forbes 400 richest Americans and noticing that the list is conspicuously littered with one surname.

4) Christy Walton - 24 billion

7) Jim Walton - 20.1 billion

8) Alice Walton - 20 billion

9) S. Robson Walton - 19.7 billion

98) Ann Walton Kroenke - 3.2 billion

136) Nancy Walton Laurie - 2.6 billion

That's six people in one family with a combined net worth of 89.6 billion dollars. The company's CEO, Mike Duke, pulls in 6 million dollars per annum.

What, pray, does the average full-time Wal-Mart employee bring in on an hourly basis?

$11.75 an hour.

What, in Wal-Mart's opinion, constitutes full time?

34 hours a week.

I wish that these six Waltons could be made to live on $20,000 for one year. That would make for some good reality TV right there.

Rah capitalism.

nwb

1 comment:

Kid Shay said...: Wow, thanks for the Sunday downer, McBone. Blogging conventions state that your next post be unabashedly happy. A single picture of Chan Marshall will suffice.; March 27, 2011 at 7:08 PM

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The Legend of Stabbone and McGraw

In 1967 the world's most powerful criminal super-genius, Stabbone, stole ten trillion dollars worth of gold boullion. Police, baffled as to the whereabouts of Stabbone's purported impenetrable underground lair, called on top investigator Rock McGraw to crack the case. Working tirelessly day after day, McGraw eventually tracked Stabbone to an abandoned latex mask factory. While McGraw radioed the boys for backup, Stabbone made his daring escape. In the chaos that ensued, both disappeared. Thirty years later, the case of Stabbone and McGraw remains a mystery, though some say that McGraw remains undercover, in relentless pursuit of his evil arch-nemesis.