Wal-Mart defended

Read the whole column - but here is an excerpt.

Eighty-six percent of Wal-Mart employees have health insurance, more than half through the company, which offers 18 plans, one with $11 monthly premiums and another with $3 co-payments. Wal-Mart employees are only slightly more likely to collect Medicaid than the average among the nation's large retailers, which hire many entry-level and part-time workers. In the past 12 months, Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the nation and in 25 states, estimates that it has paid its 1.3 million employees $4.7 billion in benefits. That sum is almost half as large as the company's profits, which last fiscal year were $10.3 billion — just 3.6 percent — on revenue of $285 billion. Wal-Mart earns just $6,000 per employee, one-third below the national average. Anyway, Wal-Mart's pay and benefits are sufficient to attract hordes of job applicants whenever it opens a new American store, which it does once every three days.
George Will

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Holiday

I - besides pastoring a church - work at the county courthouse here. This year, we were given today off (Martin Luther King, Jr.day, if you didn't know) for the first time ever. It was a 2-1 vote by the commissioners.

So, I just finished cleaning out the baptistry here at the church. It had some mold and mildew in it because we created a water fall in it for Vacation Bible School last summer. Yeah - I know. Why has it not been cleaned out before now? Does the word "procrastination" mean anything to you?