| Bloggers' Soapbox: The high price of globalization
But what-the-hey you saved 10 percent shopping at Wal-Mart at the expense of your fellow American workers. Just walk into a Wal-Mart and take a good deep breath. Then measure the lead level in your system. Worried about CO2 emissions? Los Angles in rush hour is a sterile environment in comparison to the air in a Wal-Mart store. Thank you, Utards and our free global trading advocates. Some argue even though the majority of Wal-Mart's products are manufactured in third world countries, our local economies are still positive benefactors in our community. How can that be when Wal-Mart wages qualify a single mother with one child to be eligible for welfare? When a Wal-Mart employee who is not provided health care insurance then needs Medicaid? Who pays for their health care? The truth is every taxpayer.
Open Thread
...from the masses below. The amount of anti-gay sentiment on this site is par for the course when it comes to a right wing, radical agenda. When the anti-gay radical crowd is exposed, they pucker up and tout how tolerant they are towards gays or how they have gay friends or how they work with them with no problems. I don't have a problem with a good joke aimed at me as long as you can take one aimed at you. I'm not a conserva-phobe more like a BORG-a-phobe. I fear the Brotherhood Of Rightwing Garbage or becoming assimilated as one of its members. Don't touch me...deflecting blows... Syrius "...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott .
Readers: Rebates won't help high prices for food, gas
That would be working and middle-class families for the most part. I also think incentives for small businesses would be a good thing. But I do NOT think we need more tax cuts for big business or rich people, because it does NOT trickle down. It simply enriches those who do not need any more than what they have. The proof of that pudding is in the current economic pie. Kelli Williams of St. Louis, Missouri
The biggest impact to my family right now is the higher cost of gasoline and groceries, and the outrageous cost of college. My husband and I have good jobs with solid companies and an income of $150,000 a year. What is absolutely ridiculous is that this income level prevents us from taking deductions or receiving credit for college expenses. We have two kids in college and another entering this fall.
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