My two cents worth on Wal-Mart

I conducted a little experiment while I was at my nearby wal-mart recently. I wanted to see if I could take a random sample of clothing labels and find just one that was made in America.
I took a random sample of 4 items in the women's department. One item was from Bangladesh (jeans), another from Indonesia (a shirt in the plus size section), and two from China (big surprise there, NOT).
I need help understanding somethings regarding the way they do business.
First of all I want to know why it is with all the billions of dollars in profit you make, which you are perfectly entitled to make in what is left of our capitalist system, you can't suck up spending just a little more money to put some of our American manufacturers to work? I think you make enough extra profit that you could do this and still hold your costs to a competitive level. It angers me that it is more profitable to put someone else in a foreign country to work than it is here. I don't blame Wal-Mart for that by the way. They are just trying to make a profit by keeping their costs down. I blame the unions who drive up costs by their frequently unreasonable demands, the government for over taxing and over regulating the businesses that are left-to the point where it is cheaper to do business overseas just to survive, and a large portion of the American public for not holding our elected officials accountable for the things they do which very often have a negative impact on business in this country- both small and large.
Secondly, why are so many of your workers in certain areas possessing of such poor English skills? I would think it would be kind of obvious that if you are going to be in the public sector you would need to posses good English skills, but maybe not when it comes to Wal-mart (and a few others for that matter). I find it HUGELY annoying to go into a store, ask a question of a worker and a get this blank stare clearly indicating that they either don't understand me or can't speak sufficient English to respond.
The last thing I want to know is why you have these life insurance policies out on a lot of your employees? Set up in such a way that if they die you get all the money and the family gets nothing. How do you sleep at night doing something like that? I know they aren't the only business to do this, but regardless this is completely immoral and Wal-Mart should set an example by banning the practice.
One more side note what is up with the hideous jackets you make your workers wear? Those things are an abomination and need some serious rethinking.

Thoughts on the "healthcare reform"

Over the months I have been paying close attention to how Washington is handling the "healthcare reform" issue and I must say I am deeply disturbed and more than a little frightened.

There are several items that are of particularly great concern to me.

The first of which is the fact that they somehow think that our youth and the "rich" will magically pay for all of it. Who do they think they are kidding? I can't speak for the rest of the population in this country who give a hoot, but I don't believe it for a minute.
The healthcare reform is going to be paid for by our young and healthy youth right? Well as far as I understand it most healthy young people have at best part time jobs usually with few benefits. So if they force these young people to buy insurance
( most likely at higher rates) to help pay for this debacle and these young adults in turn require subsidies (paid for by my higher premiums and most every one's higher taxes) how then will anything have gotten better?
Jobs will be lost by employers trying to meet the new federal bureaucratic standards, quality of care will suffer, as they do in every country with such kinds of medical care, and doctors will flee or retire in droves-especially primary care doctors.
The other thing is if they continue to tax the "rich" as they are and increase that taxation, there wont be enough "rich" people left to bear enough of the burden. As it stands the segment of the population that even pay federal taxes is shrinking at an alarming rate. This deterioration will only increase, thereby neccesating the lowering of the levels at which they heavily tax a group. Also have you every heard of a poor person starting a business or highering multiple groups of people? Not last time I checked, esp in today's climate of anti-private business, over-taxation, over-regulation, and out of control political correctness. The environmental nuts aren't helping either.

The second point of concern is even deeper than this. The greed and corruption of our politicians is just disgusting. They don't listen to the people who they are supposed to be representing. Instead they are listening radical organizations such as Acorn and SEIU, the Unions, and the corrupt special interest groups. We have lost our voice and our way.
Its disheartening when thousands of people say hey hold on a minute we don't like the direction you are going with this and they push ahead anyway as if to say we are too stupid to know whats really good for us. Who died and made them God?

I wonder if we as a nation will wake up in time to turn things around and save this nation or if it isn't too late and this is just God's will. Time will only tell.

Well Said Speech by Newt Gingrich.

This video makes so much sense its amazing. I think this guy makes more sense than all them lap dogs running the show right now.

Interesting email I came across that was sent to me by a dear friend, still applicable I think.

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Who is Barack Obama?


Very interesting and something that should be considered
in your choice.

If you do not ever forward anything else, please
forward this to all your contacts...
this is very scary to think of what lies ahead of us
here in our own United States... better heed this
and pray about it and share it.

We checked this out on 'snopes.com'.
It is factual. Check for yourself.

Who is Barack Obama?

Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama
was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a
black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel,
Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHIEST from
Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University
of Hawaii. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced.
His father returned to Kenya. His mother
then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.?
When Obama was 6 years old, the family
relocate to Indonesia. Obama attended a MUSLIM
school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a
Catholic school.

Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is
a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, 'He was once a Muslim,
but that he also attended Catholic school.'

Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it
appear that he is not a radical. Obama's introduction
to Islam came via his father, and that this influence
was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama
returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never
again had any direct influence over his son's education.

Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother,
Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama
was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta.

Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed
by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad
against the western world. Since it is politically expedient
to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office
in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined
the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay
his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when
he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy
Bible, but instead the Koran.

Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of
Allegience nor will he show any reverence for our flag.
While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama
turns his back to the flag and slouches. Let us all
remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential
candidacy.

The Muslims have said they plan to destroy the
US from the inside out, what better way to start than
at the highest level - through the President of the
United States, one of their own!!!!

Please forward to everyone you know.
Would you want this man leading our country?
...... NOT ME!!!

Too late, too many folks drank the kool-aide.