[Vision2020] Courtney, WalMart and the poor

[Joan Opyr]

In response to Keely's most eloquent testimony, I would just like to 
say a very loud "Bravo!" and a very humble "me, too."

Liberals hate the poor?  Really?  Good grief, Dale Courtney: do you 
have any idea how many liberals *are* poor?  Or how many liberals (like 
me) were once dirt poor and that's the very reason why we're liberals?  
Some of us believe that we have a social obligation to ensure that 
everyone has equal access to a quality education and equal access to 
quality health care; we believe that there should be a minimum standard 
of living for everyone; we believe that in a nation as rich as the 
United States, no one should ever go to bed homeless or hopeless or 
hungry.  We really believe that no child should be left behind, and 
that's why we are so disgusted to find that that phrase has been 
co-opted by a man and a movement determined to further enrich the haves 
at the expense of the have-nots.

I don't want to mingle with the poor at the Wal-Mart?  You think I want 
to waltz instead with the rich at Nordstrom's?  You really are a 
complete ma-roon.  Honestly, Dale, "bullshit" isn't strong enough.  You 
don't know shit from Shinola.  I don't give a damn about your 
Libertarianism; it's your professed Christianity that worries me.  It 
seems to bear no resemblance whatsoever to the teachings of Jesus.  How 
hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God.  
Are you clear on that?  Or are you too busy running your nasty blog, 
slamming public education, and policing my bedroom to actually read 
your New Testament?

If you believe that Jesus is coming, Dale, then you'd better start 
looking busy.  You are a camel; you need to pass through the eye of a 
needle.  Please bear in mind that neither Jenny Craig nor Slimfast are 
sound theological options.  What are you going to do?

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com


On 21 Nov 2005, at 20:29, keely emerinemix wrote:

>
> Once again, I find inspiration, if not revulsion, in Dale Courtney's 
> blog.  This time our sage blogmeister has quoted extensively from the 
> pro-Wal-Mart forces, and while some of the arguments are the same-old, 
> same-old, one in particular is downright sickening.
>
> It seems that those of us who are identified as "liberals," either by 
> ourselves or others, don't want Wal-Mart around because of our 
> animosity toward the poor.  Liberals hate the poor, asserts the 
> blogmeister, and so we hate places "they" might congregate.
>
> Yep, Dale and his buddies have nailed it -- rather than objecting to 
> Wal-Mart because the company exploits the poor and contributes to the 
> failure of small businesses and the breakdown of community, we libs 
> hate Wal-Mart because poor people shop there.   We evidently don't 
> like shopping around poor people, who may, we learn, be overweight, 
> shabbily dressed, and uncouth.  It seems we prefer to shop where our 
> fellow shoppers and sales clerks are snappily dressed, educated, and 
> slim.  And, just for good measure, our disdain for the poor extends to 
> wanting to deny them the $2300-plus a year the Wallies insist poor 
> families save by shopping at Cheap Plastic Nirvana.  Evidently at our 
> last liberal get-together, we progressives all conspired to make sure 
> that poor people spend too much on food storage containers, corn 
> flakes, and pocket T-shirts -- and thus was born our opposition to a 
> Moscow Wal-Mart Supercenter.
>
> Dale, please indulge me for a moment:  Bullshit.
>
> Your affirmation and repetition of such divisive, stupid, and 
> calloused remarks requires a stronger response, but I'll stop there.  
> I sometimes wonder if you even believe the things you say, and I 
> hesitate to dignify your comments with a response, but this time 
> you've scraped the bottom of the rhetorical barrel AND shown us your 
> heart besides.  It ain't pretty.  You know nothing of what motivates 
> me to do anything, and your smugness reveals nothing of your concern 
> for the poor and everything about your hatred of people you disagree 
> with.  It's a hell of a testimony, and I mean that as literally as 
> possible.
>
> keely emerine mix
>
> Hey, Dale --
>
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