Walmart an Evil Empire? Walmart sought to meet the needs of Hispanic and Asian immigrants in LA’s China Town. They became a cheaper source of food and necessities compared to the local drug stores. But the political activists in the city didn’t welcome them. They claimed Walmart was a climate change criminal (since they are a large 33,000 square foot store). They hated that Walmart refused to unionize, and they demanded that Walmart pay their employees $15 an hour. So LA isn’

Check out these new minimum wages, effective January 1, 2016. Um, $10 per hour is now minimum wage in California? Five years ago, it was $8. Nursing graduates from private universities in California are being offered rates as low as $14 / hour. So what are we doing? Elevating the lower class to even out the odds? Why go into debt for a college degree and even grad school when the government is upping minimum wage to make it not even worth going the extra effort? What the gove

Summary Greek Bailout Fund, a crowdfunding venture seeking to pay off Greece’s latest debt payment due June 30, was kicked off this week and has already received over 160,000 euros. However, in order to pay off Greece’s latest debt payment, the initiative needs 1.6 billion euros. Proponents of the campaign say this equates to every European paying 3 euros. As Greece lurches towards default, this crowdfunding venture is admirable, but will most likely fall short of its goal fo

Yesterday a service technician from Time Warner showed up to hook up my cable and Internet. But as we began to talk I learned that he wasn’t only a service technician – he was also a serviceman, a former army medic. I began asking questions about his experience in the military. He was as medic at the nearest hospital to the twin towers in New York when they fell on 9/11. He was a first responder. He went back and forth between the hospital and the pentagon in the afterma