CUPE and Walmart

Did you ever go to a conference or a large meeting or open your mail box and see the demands from this group as to what you should buy and where you should shop and how you should spend the money you do not have. An example of this is when the dictators at national send out propaganda to the average poor members dictating to them not to shop at walmart or eat at mcdonalds because the shoes are made in china and the hamburg may come from the united states or they are not unionized. Well the truth of the matter is; walmart and mcdonalds ,like it or not, will hire people like us who are over 55 or 60 and give us benefits and work to supplement the little pensions we have. The other factor that comes into existence is the take home money we have to work with does not permit us to buy $200. shoes or $100 dresses/slacks. We can only afford $18. shoes and $20. slacks. When you are making $100,000. per year you can talk like that and spend like that. This is reality and this is how we have to live or barely exist. The one thing that does stick out in my mind is they never mention tim hortons: probably because they had just stopped there for a coffee 20 min. prior while they were practising their speech. Try not to spend that $8. a week you have left over after paying the bills all at one place.

Watchdog annie