I worked retail. It pay's minimum wage. Stores operate with a part-time work force and a couple of full time managers who are salaried. However, if you break down their salary against what kind of hours they put in, they often times make less than minimum wage. Add to that, health care benefits are non-existant for part-timers. Retail is migrant work with a dress code.

For all I care, High can do whatever they want with their money. What I personally resent is their demand for $22 million in taxpayer dollars to "fix" a highway that was just fixed only a few years ago. If High wants an additional $22 million in highway improvements, then High needs to put up the $22 million - or shut up about it.

Remember all of those candidates for office who have promised to reduce the cost of government by eliminating "earmarks" and "pork"? Ladies and gentlemen, this $22 million in taxpayer dollars is exactly the kind of "earmarks" and "pork" they are talking about!

A person cannot possibly be a "fiscal conservative" who supports pork like $22 million taxpayer dollars earmarked specifically for the support of a shopping center.

It's like the Con-vention Center. Just say no to socialism.

I understand that. My point was in response to the statement that there are big bucks to be made in retail. My point was that those big bucks are NOT made by sales personnel. My point was that the bottom line profits for retail are HELPED by keeping costs as low as possible -- and one of the major COSTS is PERSONNEL. Policy: As few full-time as possible, as few benefits as possible, as low a salary as you can get away with. Believe me, I understand capitalism. And anyone who does knows that the working people are NOT the major concern of the retailer. Check with any retailer in the area -- employment is a revolving door.

When I worked in the business, I tried to convince upper management that increasing pay and benefits and seeking to retain the best sales people was in our best interest, would INCREASE sales, promote employee loyalty, and cost us less in training and re-training and training some more. They didn't believe it. They obviously still don't.

No mention of all the "innocent people" in East Hempfield who are royally screwed when this monstrosity sends gridlock into our township. The proposed "improvements" are token as far as fixing any problems on Harrisburg Pike. No mention of widening the bottleneck under the rail road either. Bull patty.

Simpson certainly didn't give a rip.

How does this High fellow rate all this public funding? Who does he give campaign $ to?