[cincinnati65]

"Today, Wal-Mart employs approximately 1.2 million people in the United States, and it makes a yearly profit of about 17 billion dollars.

So why does it need 2.6 billion dollars of help from the U.S. government?"

Not agreeing with the author's premise, but didn't he answer his own question here?

[DoodleDawg]

Not agreeing with the author's premise, but didn't he answer his own question here?

Where?

[JAKraig]

The writer so misunderstands the responsibilities of governments and business.

First Government does not have the responsibility to see that I make enough money to eat, only that the the country will be protected from those that would make it impossible for me to find a way to support myself.

Second, a business has no responsibilities to its employees except to pay what it agrees to pay them for a given amount of work. If the employee does not want to work for the amount then the employee has no responsibility to continue working there. When a company does not pay enough to attract good workers they either pay more or go out of business, or at least should.

We need to get the government out of our lives. The government should not be worrying about our salaries, our food stamps, our rent payments, our mortgage insurance or so many other items.