A Legitimate Job Creator

At a time when the country is struggling economically and jobs are scarce, and politicians on all sides are filling the air with vacuous rhetoric and empty promises, there is an organization that has not only stepped up to the plate in getting America back to work (it employs about 1.4 million people--see HERE), but it has also put $250 billion of its money where its mouth is--dedicating the funds over the next 10 years to increased purchase of goods made in the U.S.

You can read about the Walmart "Investing in American Jobs" project HERE.

Whether you love or hate Walmart (I happen to love the store chain on a number of levels), they are doing a good thing in today's world.

Sadly, as the saying goes, "no good turn goes unpunished," and this is no less true for this Walmart project, as recently discovered by Mike Rowe, host of "Dirty Jobs" and narrator for "Deadliest Catch" TV shows, and creator of the WORKS Foundation (a $250,000 scholarship fund for training in skilled trades), and the celebrity featured in the Walmart ad for this project. (See HERE)