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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 12:36 PM Mar 2014

Outrageous! Wisconsin publication lists names of state's biggest "welfare queens".

http://bloggingblue.com/2014/03/wisconsins-biggest-welfare-queens/


Wisconsin’s biggest “welfare queens”

Conservatives just love to throw out the phrase “welfare queens” as an attempt to stereotype recipients of public benefits, but here’s an interesting fact:

Wisconsin’s biggest “welfare queens” are actually some of Wisconsin’s biggest businesses, as noted by the state’s own BadgerCare enrollment data. Here’s a list of the top 5 employers with the most employees/dependents receiving BadgerCare benefits.

Walmart
McDonalds
Aurora
Menards
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Outrageous! Wisconsin publication lists names of state's biggest "welfare queens". (Original Post) Scuba Mar 2014 OP
The most hideous part jmowreader Mar 2014 #1
Yep. jsr Mar 2014 #2
Biggest healthcare provider in the Milwaukee area - my BIL used to be an exec with them dbackjon Mar 2014 #15
That is just nauseating. n/t JimDandy Mar 2014 #16
In fairness to Aurora Jeff In Milwaukee Mar 2014 #29
Walmart is number 1 Iliyah Mar 2014 #3
Came here expecting to see a bunch of republican 'farmers'. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #4
Michele Bachmann's subsidized farm is in WI Viking12 Mar 2014 #10
i never liked menards. but for another reason. no i have another, better reason. pansypoo53219 Mar 2014 #5
Wellllll, we're waiting.... ybbor Mar 2014 #6
Loves the Kochs? BodieTown Mar 2014 #8
how many reasons do you need? Viking12 Mar 2014 #11
John Menard was busted some years ago Jackpine Radical Mar 2014 #12
From what I've been told... jmowreader Mar 2014 #13
a friend of mine NJCher Mar 2014 #18
Thank you all for enlighting me ybbor Mar 2014 #21
John Menard is Scum warrant46 Mar 2014 #24
It is not welfare if you give money to people who do not need it. zeemike Mar 2014 #7
Excellent Use of Language! nt tea and oranges Mar 2014 #9
Nice. Good distinction. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #14
I believe Rs call it incentivizing the job creators. Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2014 #20
Yep, incentive queens works too zeemike Mar 2014 #25
Maybe we could drop the "queen" and just call them Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2014 #26
not queens--KINGS, as most of these companies are run by men, are they not? niyad Mar 2014 #31
What number Old Codger Mar 2014 #17
I'm waiting for the ag subsidy queens list. oldandhappy Mar 2014 #19
This will be ignored by the usual suspects. Rex Mar 2014 #22
Not bad. Cha Mar 2014 #23
You mean it isn't the mythical person Ronnie Raygun said existed in 1980? Nanjing to Seoul Mar 2014 #27
Wow. Menard's is one of my favorite places to shop. I had no idea they paid their workers silvershadow Mar 2014 #28
Aurora? You mean a health care organization... one that charges $5000 for an hour in a mri machine Ed Suspicious Mar 2014 #30

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
29. In fairness to Aurora
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 09:05 AM
Mar 2014

Full Disclosure: Former Employee.

They (and other healthcare providers) hire a lot of part-time employees, such as nurses who are mostly stay-at-home moms who work maybe one shift a week. A lot of them would like to be fulltime if something comes up, so in the meantime that might mean one a shift at Aurora, another shift somewhere else (like Froedert).

Aurora does provide health care if you work 40 hours or more in a two-week pay period (essentially half-time), but as the figures show, it employs a host of workers who work less than 20 hours per week.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
4. Came here expecting to see a bunch of republican 'farmers'.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 01:30 PM
Mar 2014

Preferably 'farmers' that also happen to be in Congress.

ybbor

(1,554 posts)
6. Wellllll, we're waiting....
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 01:53 PM
Mar 2014

I've never been to one but would love to know why I shouldn't go in the first place.

BodieTown

(147 posts)
8. Loves the Kochs?
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 02:26 PM
Mar 2014
Menards deeply cares about the Koch bros and their interests.

Menards: member of Koch's Million Dollar Club?

Menards: Big-time supporter of Scott Walker.

Menards: Somebody I know tried to work in one store for all of one week. She said it had an authoritarian environment for workers, and a place that had so many new employees coming and leaving that she couldn't keep track of who even worked there. She walked out after one week on a desperately needed job.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
12. John Menard was busted some years ago
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 03:12 PM
Mar 2014

for PERSONALLY taking home treated lumber scraps & burning them in his trash barrel. The EPA fined him big-time as a repeater.

And he is known to wander around in his stores trying to get the employees to badmouth the company, at which point he fires them on th spot with great drama.

And there's this:


http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/06/20/murphys-law-the-strange-life-of-john-menard/

Bruce Murphy
Murphy’s Law
The Strange Life of John Menard

A lurid legal suit against him is the latest chapter in the retail billionaire’s bizarre life.
By Bruce Murphy - Jun 20th, 2013 01:22 pm
Menards. Photo by Mike Kalasnik.

Rarely have I read a legal case with more titillating details than the one filed against 73-year-old John Menard, whom Forbes magazine calls the 56th richest American, with a net worth of $7 billion. The suit accuses the retail chain owner based in Eau Claire of “intentional inflection of emotional distress, battery, attempted battery, assault, attempted assault” against Tomisue Hilbert, the wife of Stephen Hilbert, a longtime business associate of Menard’s.

“On multiple occasions,” the suit claims, “Mr. Menard touched Mrs. Hilbert and demanded both directly and indirectly, that Mrs Hilbert engage in sexual activities with him and his spouse.” Menard warned there would be “severe financial consequences” if Tomisue (pronounced Tommy Sue) refused him, the suit contends, and some time after this, “Menard made good on his threats and began an orchestrated campaign to cause severe financial consequences against Mrs. Hilbert.”

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
13. From what I've been told...
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 03:17 PM
Mar 2014

You are, or at least were, not allowed to work at Menards if you're a do-it-yourselfer. They're afraid employees will steal the merchandise for their own projects.

NJCher

(35,690 posts)
18. a friend of mine
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 06:31 PM
Mar 2014

Had a carpenter who used to take treated wood scraps home and he burned them in his furnace.

At a relatively young age, early 50s, both he and his wife came down with numerous mysterious illnesses. Later she died of cancer; I don't know his condition at present.


Cher

ybbor

(1,554 posts)
21. Thank you all for enlighting me
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 07:45 PM
Mar 2014

I will now share with all I know. I hate big box stores so I would have never visited one anyway, but now I have ammo to continue to push for supporting my local hardware store (Stadium Hardware in Ann Arbor, I end up spending an extra 15-30 minutes BSing every visit) and lumber yard (Fingerlee Lumber also in Ann Arbor). Both places have full time employees who are extremely knowledgable and they have full benefits and 401k's. Check them out if in the area. You will not be disappointed.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
7. It is not welfare if you give money to people who do not need it.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 02:20 PM
Mar 2014

that is called corruption...they are corruption queens.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
20. I believe Rs call it incentivizing the job creators.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 07:32 PM
Mar 2014

What? It's not working. The incentives must not be big enough. Better give them more money!

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
22. This will be ignored by the usual suspects.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 07:46 PM
Mar 2014

Their bubble is far more precious to them then real life.

 

Nanjing to Seoul

(2,088 posts)
27. You mean it isn't the mythical person Ronnie Raygun said existed in 1980?
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 11:25 PM
Mar 2014

It's big business that sucks the government teat for all it's worth? Well, slap my side and call me late for dinner. . .who woulda thunk?

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
28. Wow. Menard's is one of my favorite places to shop. I had no idea they paid their workers
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 05:05 AM
Mar 2014

so poorly.

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
30. Aurora? You mean a health care organization... one that charges $5000 for an hour in a mri machine
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 09:31 AM
Mar 2014

and 500 dollars, in addition to a separate exorbitant ER facilities fee, to see an ER doctor... they have the temerity to underpay their employees while living off the government teat? PAY YOUR BILLS, FUCKERS!

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