Study: Walton Heirs Work Harder than 79% of Black Population Combined

A new study has shown that the Walton heirs of Wal-Mart founders Bud and Sam Walton's fortune work harder than 79% of America's black population combined.

The study, which compared the total wealth of Rob, Christie, Jim, Alice, Ann and Nancy Walton to that of African Americans, revealed that the Walton clan's combined net-worth of $149 billion exceeds the total effort put forth by 30,756,500 blacks living in the US.

Study author Ian Ross remarked: "Each of the Waltons are constantly working to discover new loopholes in the US tax code while Alice Walton, who also breeds horses and collects art, is known to exhaust herself so extensively at the office that she has driven her car into a ravine, through a gas meter, a telephone booth, and over a cannery worker in incidents that were mistaken for DWIs."

Ross added: "What is perhaps most significant here is how apparently unmotivated blacks are."

Statistics show that approximately 65% of black families have not bothered to accumulate more than $50,000 worth of financial assets, and more than half lack the initiative to even set up a retirement plan.

"These are numbers that are as ironic as they are troubling," Ross said, "Considering so many of these people work for Wal-Mart, and yet none of that work ethic seems to rub off."