Wal-Mart Food For Thought I am a Wal-Mart shopper. Now that does not mean I approve of how they do business or run their organization. It means I like their prices. The union’s of this country are continually attempting to get Wal-Mart’s employees to join at least one of the unions, however, to date this as not happened. So here is the questions: 1. If a union or unions prevail will we see a large up swing in prices from Wal-Mart? 2. Will the people working for...
You are probably wondering what the above title is leading to. Several months ago my father was diagnosed with cancer. He is 82. His common-law wife (Lois) is 87. Let first talk about Lois. Lois is not a well person. In the last 10 years she has had a heart attack that lead to three of the ports leaving, and entering the heart to be by-passed. She has also had eight Minnie-strokes; my dad prefers to call them as dizzy spills. Because of the small strokes Lois h...
After reading JeremyG’s article on what is basically a need to rid ourselves of those who do not confirm to the norm (physically and mentally) of society I find this sad. The reason I find this sad is because as someone in a sense I belong in the categories he was talking about. I was born in 1946, and in 1949 was diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic. Not quite three years old. Now at that time my mother and father had only four children. Three girls an a boy. I was the second child. Th...