[Vision2020] the pledge

[J Ford]

The reasons that people object to WalMart, KMart, Target, Costco, etc. has 
NOTHING to do with limiting shoppers choices and certainly has NOTHING to do 
with limiting the poor (personally, that argument is so lame, its hardly 
worth much more notice than that) and it has nothing to do with dictating 
what a landowner can/cannot do with their land (BTW, that is done daily - 
can't build a fence on your property higher than 4ft., can't build just any 
kind of building anywhere you want in town/county, etc.)

What it has to do with is the fear (or better yet, concern) for the economy 
and the autonomy of the town.  As well, it has to do with what people see 
corporations do to their workers (or not do to the them; i.e., provide 
proper level of health insurance, decent pay, etc.)

If those arguing on an emotional level could just rise out of that and look 
into the facts and present logical, non-emotional arguments, it might help 
move things along.

The arguements given below are pretty weak.  Sorry, but "Someone wants to 
walk or ride a bike to WalMart"?  What does THAT have to do with ANYthing?

And please, for once keep the response on a non-nasty level - just write 
about the facts or arguments as you see them; don't attack the person 
writing about this, ok?  (Please re-read my statement in para 3 - the 
ARGUMENT is weak, not the person making it.)

J  :]





>   If  you want reason of why it limits choice I will give you several of 
>them;
>
>   Someone does not have a car to drive to Pullman
>
>   Someone does not want to burn the gas to drive to Pullman
>
>   Someone does not WANT to drive to Pullman
>
>   Someone does not have the TIME to drive to Pullman
>
>   Someone is not allowed to go to Pullman or cross state lines
>
>   Someone wants to work at a Super Wal-Mart in Idaho
>
>   Some one does not want to pay 5% tax on groceries
>
>   Someone wants to keep tax dollars in Idaho
>
>   Someone wants to do one stop shopping in Idaho
>
>   Someone wants to go for long walks indoors in the winter or rain
>
>   Someone wants to do donuts in their big parking lot a 12PM
>
>   Someone wants to walk or ride a bike to Wal-mart
>
>   There is giant snow storm a Pullman is too far
>
>   There ice cream might melt
>
>   There trunk does not close and want to avoid the highway
>
>   They get lost in Pullman
>
>   They hate Pullman
>
>   Pullman traffic is horrible because they have a game
>
>   They do not know their way around Pullman
>
>   They like the Color Blue
>
>   The Queen of England is English
>
>   Their girlfriend is ugly
>
>   OK so the last three were irrational and illogical but so is the  
>reasons for opposing the right of shoppers to shop where they want.

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