Nurses Strike: How This Relates to Buy Local

It seems so simple to prioritize people before profits. 

If you aren't familiar with why nurses are on strike read this great article from Berkeleyside: Nurses' Strike Draws Cheers and Honking Horns.  Corporation is mentioned in that article.

We all should know by now that Walmart only hires part-time employees so that they don't have be responsible for providing benefits.  That means all they have to worry about is paying their part-time employees minimum wage.  That's it! A company responsible for producing billionaires only has to worry about paying the lowest wage legally allowed to a working human here in America.  In fact, they teach their employees how to apply for government aid:

Walmart fails to provide a livable wage and decent healthcare benefits, costing U.S. taxpayers an annual average of $1.02 billion in healthcare costs.

But hospitals are not retail stores and we don't have the flexibility to "shop" elsewhere.  However, if citizens can show limitless support for these nurses, then our voices cannot be ignored.

As for Walmart, why do we continue to support a corporate with a CEO that makes more per hour than their employee makes in a year.  Let's make a more conscious effort to shift local and cultivate a community that buys local.

Iron Man 3 - Message Regarding Big Oil

There's so many messages in films that go beyond the surface of what the movie is about.  After watching Iron Man 3, I still keep thinking about Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) referring to BIG OIL.  As the primary antagonist of the movie, does his message encourage sympathy for BIG OIL?

One of Aldrich's motivation for the bad things he plans to do is because of BIG OIL.  I'm torn: is the message a slap on BIG OIL or since it's coming from a bad guy, maybe its reverse psychology?