{"id":2759,"date":"2005-10-26T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2017-12-28T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:52:32","slug":"wal-mart-ceo-wants-government-to-mandate-more-spending-power-for-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/wal-mart-ceo-wants-government-to-mandate-more-spending-power-for-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart CEO Wants Government To Mandate More Spending Power for Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/10\/25\/news\/fortune500\/walmart_wage\/\" target=\"_new\">Wal-Mart calls for minimum wage hike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said he&#8217;s urging Congress to consider raising the minimum wage so that Wal-Mart customers don&#8217;t have to struggle paycheck to paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>Scott told Wal-Mart directors and executives in a speech Monday that he believes &#8220;it is time for Congress to take a look at the minimum wage and other legislation that can help working families.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, as the millionaire spoke to other millionaires, he didn&#8217;t urge their own philanthropy.  He urged more further government-enforced philanthropy.  A two-fer: he sounds good and he doesn&#8217;t have to take any action other than advocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart calls for minimum wage hike: Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said he&#8217;s urging Congress to consider raising the minimum wage so that Wal-Mart customers don&#8217;t have to struggle paycheck to paycheck. Scott told Wal-Mart directors and executives in a speech Monday that he believes &#8220;it is time for Congress to take a look at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19123,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/19123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}