Ehrlich Playing Loose With The Truth

Like the line from the film “Wall Street” , how the working class father explains to his Stock Broker son about having integrity..."I don’t go to bed with no whore, I don’t wake up with no whore. That’s how I am able to live with myself.”

Nor does it suprise me how Big Business buys politicians of both parties. How else do they all get Tax Breaks and other perks? Money talks!!

It appears as if the corruption of Washington has creeped outside of the Beltway and to Annapolis.  Like other politicians, Ehrlich is part of a quid pro quo deal--and his first response is denial.

As Fair Share Health Care will protect Maryland families, Gov. Bob again decided to side with anyone that gives him money.

Talk about sleezy. After overriding the Governor’s veto, MD voters should go ahead and override the Governor’s re-election.

from Kathy `` how the working class father explains to his Stock Broker son about having integrity``

You seem to be confused with what words mean. The stock broker also works, so both people involved in this film anecdote are “working class”.

“Fair Share Health Care” will not protect or help families. It will encourage companies (we know there is really only one!) to cut one type of compensation in order to make up for the government-mandated increase in another type of compensation.

Aren’t there more than one company that is effected by this law?

Employees of a company that makes billions in profit each and every year should not have to go to either the state or the federal govt. (funded by taxpayer money) for handouts.
If WM were to decide to take the difference out of their own employees wages as Who in e. g. seems to be infering so be it although WM should expect a hell of a lot more bad publicity and criticism if it does. Again a billions in profit corporation cutting (the rather low) wages of its employees because they couldn’t stop this legislation they don’t like. Yeah that would look really good. I don’t think so. I don’t think that they’re that stupid.

Larry, you are forgetting about matters of economies of scale. This is a company with more than a million employees. Those billions end up vanishing very quickly if you demand that they be given as a freebie (unearned compensation) to those 1.2 million workers, and the company cannot afford it. Additionally, whether or not any worker at any place chooses to beg for handouts from the government is that worker’s choice.

A company with 1.2 million employees that earns billions can’t afford to waste money just as a company with 3 employees that earns tens of thousands cannot waste money.

WM won’t get bad publicity if they do what the legislature might encourage them to do if they state the simple fact that if more compensation is mandated in one area, it has to come out of another area. The public is indeed aware of the impact of “unfunded mandates” by ignorant legislators who think that the money will materialize out of thin air to pay for initiatives like this.

The wages aren’t “rather low”. They are quite ample for the low-skilled and low-value jobs that so many of the workers hire on for.

Erlich’s memory lapse is a bad thing. However, assuming that WM influenced him with this money, what is the end result? That Wal-Mart receives no money from the government. That Wal-Mart is treated just like any other company. A company using undue influence with government to buy a situation of $0 government handouts and fair treatment like everyone else is in large contrast with real corruption scandals (in which companies get handouts and special advantage). In other words, the “scandal meter” shows a low registration when a company pays to influence government to GIVE IT NOTHING AND TREAT IT FAIRLY.

But the Stock broker son in the film sided with an ethic of Insider trading and screwing over everyone else for his own personal gain. The son sells his soul to the Devil (Gordon Gekko), falls from grace, then does the right thing once he has been caught, brings the Devil down.

I understand the words, Who!!  Apparently the Gov. of Maryland does not. Sometimes life does indeed imitate Art and vice versa.

Well lets say that’s the price of being unique. And as your post seems to point to this uniqueness too and that is because they have made themselves unique. Why should it be up to the voter/taxpayer to pay the costs for WM’s too rapid expansion by subsidizing WM’s employees? WM certainly is not holding back on plans to open up new stores--certainly not holding back on perks and bonuses to upper management to wit they are always on the margin or over the margin on the law--case in point being numerous lawsuits on a whole litany of abuses or alleged abuses-discrimination-enviromental-wage violations etc. It seems to cover a wide spectrum that has no precedent that I can think of.  They certainly continue to make its founders children billionaires over and over again. Are the bulk of their employees always to be left behind when they are hunkering down in their HQ and making their plans?

As for the wages being low or not. They might not be terrible for a single person. Anyone married with children is going to be falling on either side of poverty levels set by the federal govt.--these guidelines under the control of Homeland Security. So they are low and as far as these guidelines are concerned it doesn’t matter how skilled or how intelligent the recievers of these wages are.