[Vision2020] Donovan, Gallileo, and arguments against a WalMart Supercenter

[Joan Opyr]

Donovan writes:

> If I want a Wal-Mart because it is blue, that should be
> reason enough. It is my choice as a consumer to shop at
> only Blue stores when Elizabeth is the Queen of England.

If you want to shop at WalMart, Donovan, then for God's sake, shop there.  It 
seems to have escaped your notice that we already have one here in town.  High 
on a hill was a lonely WalMart, lady-oh, ah-lady-oh, ah-lady-hoo!  The 
question at hand is not whether a WalMart Supercenter would be good for you, 
Donovan Arnold, or good for me, Joan Opyr; it's about whether a Supercenter 
would be good for Moscow's overall economy.  The evidence on this point is 
overwhelmingly against, not for, WalMart.  

You airily dismiss (without citing any data whatsoever) that all anti-
Supercenter arguments, from WalMart's depressive effect on local wages to its 
workers' dependence on public services and state-subsidized health care to the 
company's proven use of illegal labor at home and sweatshop labor abroad.  You 
say that these arguments are irrelevant.  Irrelevant to whom?  To you?  Who 
gives a flip about you?  These arguments are important to Moscow.  We're 
talking about the future of our community, about the retail health of 
downtown, and, like it or not, this debate is about something more important 
than ensuring that you and Dale Courtney save a few cents on toilet paper and 
Monoxidil.

Take a clue from Gallileo.  The earth orbits the Sun; the earth does not orbit 
Donovan Arnold.  Not yet, anyway.  Not so long as you take your Leptropril and 
keep eating at Subway.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: When is a diet pill worth $153 a bottle?  When it gets rid of a fat head.


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