I found this article today, which talks about how the relatively poor in European countries use IKEA stores as an alternative to welfare.
Obviously some are blatantly exploiting the free services of IKEA, such as parents who drop off their children at the store’s day care facility, and then take off to run errands elsewhere. [...]
Whether you have a high or low opinion of Globalization, you can’t deny that it’s here to stay. Politicians in westernized countries may be pressured by their constituents to resist change, but global pressures from the WTO and other organizations are pushing countries to relax their tariffs and open up their boarders to [...]
I don’t neccesarially approve of all Senator John McCain’s ideas, as evidenced recently via his many phone calls and letters directed at informing me as to how I should vote today in my state (which, by the way, is not AZ). Regardless, I am regularly impressed by what he doesn’t do, as opposed to [...]