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Jul 24 2007 12:00am EDT

Attention Wal-Mart War Room

Wake up the war room! Tonight Show host Jay Leno was picking on Wal-Mart last night:

"Wal-Mart is considering of investing in the retail business in China. But there are issues of employees: Slave labor, horrible working conditions and brutal treatment. But China said, 'Oh, Wal-Mart's welcome, anyway.'"

by Mark Stein


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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