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When justice comes to America every WalMart executive who tells a vendor to outsource their products will be made to wear a sandwich sign around his/her neck:

....I'M A THIEF, I STOLE FROM AMERICA...

Big scarlet letters.
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I don't know where to post this, but did you know that GW's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved in a planned coup to overthrow FDR???

BBC reports.....click my name

And now they control the government....warrantless wiretapping, illegal war, etc...

That really is scary.

JD, it was led by Wall Street financiers.
who hired Smedley Butler (see wikipedia) to command an army of 1200 disenchanted soldiers to overthrow the U.S. government. The plot was discovered and reported to Congress whereupon the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was formed to investigate. They did a thorough investigation and presented their report to FDR who read it then filed it in the bottom of his desk and remarked "This is good work. You never know when you may need one of those financiers for something."

Later one the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was used by Joseph McCarthy to do the "witch hunt" on labor organizers, commies and "com-sympths."

Office of Independent Prosecutor was created by Demos to go after Nixion's corruption. Then in 90s RightWiing Mafia used it (Ken Starr) to go after Clinton.
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So Larry, would you prefer communism to capitalism?

Wal-Mart is THE American Dream. Small town man builds incredible retail empire.

The retailing landscape in our country is constantly changing. Next you'll be bitchin' about Ebay. Americans must continue to learn to compete with the discounters by providing services that the large big box stores cannot.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

The people that steal most from Wal-Mart work at Wal-Mart. Seeing Tom Coughlin outside his mansion with this message somehow seems much more just than sentencing him to 18 months of luxury.

The Wal-Mart of today was not Sam's dream. He would never have gotten in bed with China. Remember "Buy American"?

Wal-Mart is not capitalism, it is carnivorism.

The American Dream is not someone's kids inheriting billions of dollars extracted from small towns across the country.

That's not free market capitalism, rising on your own merits. It's just the opposite. Money for nothing and the creation of a ruling class.

Wal-Mart in most instances no longer gives you the chance to buy an American-made product, that's why I rarely cross their threshold. In most departments its only their made in China or some other third world crap or nothing.

Me? I'd like to see Lee Scott with a sandwich board saying "I hornswoggle customers any time I can."
Yeah, yeah, I know I took the pledge: No more Wal-Mart. I backslid. Again.
And what happens virtually every time I do backslide? I come upon a bargain, the last being luscious looking nectarines for 98 cents a pound. But when I check out, they've jumped up to $1.50 a pound and the cashier insists I've made the mistake. Four people in a hurry behind me convinces me to tell her to put them back. A ten minute unsuccessful wait to see a manager to complain about repeated events of this sort really put me in a good mood.
I've sworn off again.

>>Wal-Mart is THE American Dream. Small town man builds incredible retail empire.<<

When the "Dream" becomes a nightmare it's incredible that the corportacracy allows such a forum as this.

Sam Walton did embrace much of what is happening in his name. He did not instigate outsourcing but he pushed it along rapidly and streamlined it's implementation. He was very contemptuous of labor and not too many were fooled by his patronizing and dishonest labeling of employees as "associates."

What you laissez faire enthusiasts
hopefully see that communities are just as responsible for the production of wealth as the entrepreneur. Without communities large wealth creation is impossible.

Community is dwindling in America due to to the policies of WalMart. They now set standards and practices which, by competitive law, drags the rest of commerce into their low set of values.

Walmart has done more to undermine the concept of value than any other entity in our history.
It's called "special runs" of merchandise which Mr. Sam used to get an edge on his competition while treating customers dishonestly. You bought what was portrayed as a standard merchandise from a name-brand producer which Walmart had forced into a lower standard of production, if the producer wanted to survive and do business with WallyWorld. From then on it was a downhill race in product quality.

>Next you'll be bitchin' about Ebay.<

I can think of no two businesses so opposite of each other than eBay and Wallyworld. If you can't make the distinction you truly need help.

Ebay enables others to have an enterprise, WalMart thrives by driving out other businesses. Can I walk into WalMart and make an offer on something I want?

In many small towns WalMart has virtually become the only non-choice retailer using predatory pricing which was once prohibited in this nation.

>GOD BLESS AMERICA!<<

Religion is the last refuge of scoundrels. Whether god, yaweh, Jehovah, Odin, or Dianna, or John Smith blesses America we will never know. But the printing presses are blessing WalMart.
When the mint stops printing it up or gov quits issuing digital credits then do blessings come from god while you're standing in the soup line?

btw bill, good trolling.