[Vision2020] Correction: Donovan, Gallileo,

[Joan Opyr]

Before the grammar cop arrests me again, allow me to correct the first sentence of my
second 
paragraph.  Mea culpa grammatica.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com


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) 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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