[Vision2020] I do not care about the economy

[Phil Nisbet]

Chas

News flash for you.  Wally World does not support the GOP.  You might want 
to look at where they do put the $169,000,000 they do laddle out every year. 
  The truth is that Walmart pays Greenmail in buckets.  They put money into 
the WWF and into the NWF in the millions.  They pay off any City with cash 
when any town wants to slow their development plans.  They do not send money 
to conservative think tanks like CEI, they send it to liberal think tanks 
instead, trying to get favorable reviews.

Walmart is getting to the point that as far as I am conderned, they have 
become a Trust just as did the Rockefellers.  You should note that the 
Rockefellers, other than Nelson, were solid for the Democrats, something 
that seems to happen whenever companies reach trust size.

The giving to buy support for themselves is something that the big boys do 
because they can and the smaller firms can not.  It means that the 
regulatory ax does not often fall on them and instead chops the smaller 
companies to ribbons.  Thats why you will often see an Exxon or a Chevron or 
a Walmart support stringent regulation, becuase they know that they can 
afford it but their competitors can not.  They realize that they can spread 
largese in the right corners to get enough of a blind eye so that the other 
guy is the one used to prove a regulatory point.  That is not the level 
business playing field supported by Free Enterprise and is one of the 
reasons that TR started the anti-Trust laws in the first place.

Phil Nisbet


>From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
>To: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] I do not care about the economy
>Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:19:20 -0800
>
>On 1/9/06, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am still waiting to hear any legitimate complaints against Wal-Mart.
>
>I have legitimate complaints against Wal-Mart.  I shop at Wal-Mart.  I
>shop at Wal-Mart because I am a hypocrite.
>
>My complaints:
>
>1.  Wal-Mart supports the GOP.  Costco supports the Dems.  I'm a
>Democrat.  I'd rather support a Costco than a Wal-Mart.  Bring a
>Costco to Moscow, please.
>
>2.  Wal-Mart doesn't pay as well as Costco, and offers less generous
>benefits.  Allegedly.  I don't have the time to dig for corroborating
>URL's.
>
>3.  Wal-Mart, Costco, etc., lead to a certain homogeneity that I find
>distasteful.  I like a little adventure/diversity in my shopping.  I
>may be in the extreme minority in this.
>
>4.  Wal-Mart actively censors.  I resent bowdlerized content, even if
>it is good for me.
>
>Good things about Wal-Mart:
>
>1.  They didn't cave-in to the "Happy Holidays" weenies.
>Surprisingly.  Gratifyingly.
>
>2.  Wal-Mart employs the handicapped in large numbers (or so it seems
>to this shopper).  Bravo!
>
>Those are my reasons for liking/disliking Wal-Mart.  You may have
>others.  That's okay.  Those are mine; you can borrow a few if you
>want.
>
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