Good ideas about the abusive greedy welfare and corporate we the taxpayers' support...

This entire statement is ridiculous. Are you really advocating that it is okay for a person to steal from his/her employer? I think any employer (not just Wal-Mart) would penalize a dishonest employee in every way legally possible. If you steal from your employer then you forfeit your rights to any benefits you may have earned. I certainly don't feel that Tom Coughlin deserves a penny of the $20 Million you say they took from him. It is also beyond reason to expect them to simply give the $20 Million to other employees. Which ones would they give it to? How would it be split? If you wish to be taken seriously then you must refrain from making childish and petty statements such as these. Wal-Mart has done plenty wrong on their own and there is no need to cry foul where there is no foul.

John B., You think it's fair to penalize an employee over 40 times the damage they did to the company? Theft from employers isn't what's being advocated, but the penalty fitting the crime is. Not only did Wal-Mart force Coughlin into retirement, they took away his retirement package, required him to repay all bonuses that they already paid him (most of which were paid long before this scandle started and were paid for making Wal-Mart billions), and exposed him to the public eye after punishing him themselves and then turning him over to the government.

As for the $20 million being distributed to its employees, they don't mean splitting the money up and handing it out. The posibilities of this include making health insurance more affordable to its employees, increasing said insurance coverage (yes *gasp* Wal-Mart's insurance has limitations on coverage beyond cosmetic purposes), increasing the discount percentage (Wal-Mart has an average 30% markup on merchandise, but employees get a 10% discount only on select items), and even increasing their minimum wage (which is currently only a few pennies over the required mimimum in many places).