http://blogs.wsj.com/...
September 20, 2010, 6:45 PM ET
Watching Wal-Mart at Midnight
Bill Simon, CEO of Wal-Mart’s U.S. business, at a Goldman Sachs conference last week, on behavior at a Walmart store around midnight at the end of a month:
"And to figure out how to deal with what is an ever-increasing amount of transactions being paid for with government assistance.
"And you need not go further than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it’s real interesting to watch, about 11 p.m., customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items, baby formula, milk, bread, eggs,and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight, when electronic — government electronic benefits cards get activated and then the checkout starts and occurs....."
Now...where have I heard this campaign message before????
Nine months old, recycled pre-election repub propaganda, making a new round in this week's news cycle.: (note the date)
http://www.reuters.com/...
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:52am EST
(Reuters) - At 11 p.m. on the last day of the month, shoppers flock to the nearest Walmart. They load their carts with food and household items and wait for the midnight hour. That's when food stamp credits are loaded on their electronic benefits transfer cards.
"Once the clock strikes midnight and EBT cards are charged, you can see our results start to tick up," says Tom Schoewe, Wal-Mart Stores Inc's chief financial officer.
Demonize the poor and the powerless to foment resentment of them instead of of the wealthiest who fund the message...
http://www.time.com/...
TIME - Nov 14, 1988
"Ronald Reagan kept it up with his allusions to "welfare queens" and the " strapping young buck" using food stamps to buy a T-bone steak. ... "
http://news.google.com/...
Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive - Feb 9, 1976
"by John Fialka of the Washington Star
Few people realize it, but Linda Taylor, a 47-year old, Chicago welfare recipient, has become a major campaign issue in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Former California governor Ronald Reagan has referred to her at nearly every stop, using her as part of his "Citizens Press Conference" format. "There's a woman in Chicago," Reagan said last week to an audience in at Gilford. as part of his free-swinging attack on welfare abuses...."