More than Wal-Mart - Page 3

AhabtheArab · 10-06-2006, 09:32 AM

Im more of a target person my self. Better clothing if you ask me

politicoaware · 10-09-2006, 01:42 AM

If Wal-Mart hadn't shown up, some other heartless big-time retailer would have. But either way, the small-time ma and pa operations don't even have a choice anymore. That's another form of regulation: regulation of individual-choice through monopolies which pose as harmless contributors to a "free-market" economy.

Feslin · 10-09-2006, 03:18 PM

I support Wal-Mart, because corporations like it give their workers good wages, and stimulate the economy.

ilikeGW · 10-09-2006, 03:50 PM

Walmart Lawsuit filed in New York and Washington

Google "Walmart lawsuit" there are over 4 MILLION links (Results 1 - 10 of about 4,520,000 for walmart lawsuit).

Freedom for All · 10-10-2006, 04:48 PM

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LOL.

Yep, KMart and Sears merged (actually, KMart BOUGHT Sears!!) and pulled themselves out of bankruptcy. They closed a few hundred stores and restructured and became Big K.

Yeah, I should have gotten a copyright on that "Big K", thing. I worked there 20 years ago and that's what I started calling it....sigh.

ilikeGW · 10-10-2006, 04:54 PM

Oops, I better trademark Wally World before Walmart gets any ideas.

Freedom for All · 10-10-2006, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Green Arrow

I reccomend the goverment get off it's lazyass, stop wasting our hard-earned money on stupid wars and other insane projects, and take our money to trample these multibillion dollar coporations and force them to loosen thier grip over the free market. A truly free market isn't one controlled by a handful of elite forces, it's one with many small, nearly equal competitive shops. Republicans worry about inflation, but if we don't do something about Time Warner, Wal-Mart, and a slew of other monopolies soon, we'll have more then just inflation to worry about. Inflation+an unliveable wage=dead. Or atleast you'll wish you were..

So, you're saying we should liberate the free market just like Lenin liberated the Russian workers, but putting chains on it?

Guess what, dude? The growth of conglomerates is a natural by-product of the free market and...their ability to make savings on huge economies of scale is a net benefit to the buyers, who save money which they can then use to purchase other items, thereby fueling the economy.

The purpose of every business is to make a profit for the owners. Businesses aren't in business to create jobs, they create jobs because the labor serves a necessary function for that business.

Don't like Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, or Sak's Fifth Avenue? Resent where and how the goods they sell are manufactured? Then don't buy from them. If you can't get enough people to join your boycott, then you clearly don't have the support to justify any government action...and if your boycott worked, government action wouldn't be necessary, right?

Freedom for All · 10-10-2006, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ilikeGW

Oops, I better trademark Wally World before Walmart gets any ideas.

Too late for that, National Lampoon already has it...

Freedom for All · 10-10-2006, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Green Arrow

The goverment exsists as an insturment of the people, therfore it's the job of the goverment to do the people's will, and the will of the people is we crash these huge coporation's party! I'm tired of sitting idoly by while big coporations abuse the working class..

I covered this in a previous post, but I'll repeat:

You people DON'T have the majority behind you, because if you did, you'd be able to boycott those corporations effectively and you then wouldn't need to abuse the power of government to attain your goals.

Freedom for All · 10-10-2006, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by davideyoung

When Walmart came to Lemon Grove, CA, it saved the economy. Ma and pa businesses were running out of customers, and money in the neighborhood was scarce. Then Walmart came. Now thousands of people shop there every day, and patronize the surrounding businesses as well. Walmart saved dozens of little shops and resteraunts there just by bringing the crowds of shoppers to the neighborhood, and employing hundreds of local workers who also spend money in the neighborhood.

If Walmart had not come, there is a good chance the neighborhood would have a lot of vacancy signs in the store windows right now. I was there to see the transformation, and it is a good thing for the economy all around.

Jesse Jackson and the usual bunch of idiots protested Wal-Mart's plan to build in COMPTON, California, and succeeded in stopping them from building a facility that would have provided dozens of short-term construction jobs and a hundred or so long-term retail jobs. The Compton city councilors actively joined the protest, and the issue failed on the special ballot. Compton is a mostly black, poor not-working class suburb of Los Angeles, and the protectors of the poor, aka the poverty pimps, prevented them from getting jobs. And the city also lost millions in retail tax revenues.

The city of Carson, ten miles down the freeway, let Wal-Mart build, and is now enjoying more jobs, more tax revenue, and a useful structure built on a vacant lot. And the people that would have shopped at the Compton Walmart are just as happily shopping at the Carson Wal-Mart. After all, this it Los Angeles County, and a ten-mile zip down the highway is a what our "culture" hear is all about.

But I get so tired of the anarchist/leftist/socialist gripes about the evils of big businesses when this example so clearly proves what is either their ignorance and their arrogance.