Walmart-a-Caid

Why is all the weird or disturbing news coming out of Florida these days? Isn't that why God created California?

The St. Petersburg Times reports Wal-Mart, "which is getting millions of dollars
in state incentives to create jobs in Florida, has more employees and family members enrolled in Medicaid than any company in the state." The paper reports the state has paid Wal-Mart more than $51 million in incentives since 1981. By way of gratitude, the superstore is letting Florida taxpayers foot the bill for the 12,300 workers and dependents it pays so poorly that they qualify for Medicaid, the state's health care program for the poor.

It must be the curse of the 2000 election. Well, we've all been cursed by that but whatever.