<div id="RTEContent"><font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">"Wrong again Donovan. My political beliefs have never been posted on this board so you haven't a clue about my political beliefs."-Don Huskey<br> <br> Yeah, they are such a mystery. </font></font><br> <font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><br> "But I do have a Masters Degree in Business Administration and the rise of dominant companies like Standard Oil in the 1890's, or Carnegie Steel in the same period and I would argue Walmart and some other very large present day companies are NOT the result of free markets but of laissez faire unfettered capitalism. "<br> <br> You may have a MBA but you obviously missed American History from 1860-1945. Wal-Mart, and I know this may come as a shock, never shot and killed villages full of men, women and children camped out in tents. So comparing Wal-Mart to Rockefellar's Standard Oil is a bit over th!
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<br> <br> Wal-Mart rose to power not by unfettered capitalism from a multi-billionaire. Wal-Mart became successful because a couple of poor brothers from Bentonville, Arkansas started a business with the novel concept of offering the lowest price they could offer to low income families. The Rockefeller's, Carnegie, JP Morgan, and the other criminals of the 1800s and 1900s murdered their workers, gouged their customers, and bribed the political leaders of the time. </font></font><font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">Wal_Mart started in the shadows of KMart, Sears, Macy's and other retail giants. <br> <br> The people that shop at Wal-mart, work at Wal-Mart, and have experienced the greatest increase in wealth in US history are the poor and minorities, the very people that liberals elitists claim to be championing. <br> <br> <br> <br> _DJA<br> </font></font><font><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia"
size="3"><br> <br> <br> </font></font><br><b><i>DonaldH675@aol.com</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"> <div>Wrong again Donovan. My political beliefs have never been posted on this board so you haven't a clue about my political beliefs. But I do have a Masters Degree in Business Administration and the rise of dominant companies like Standard Oil in the 1890's, or Carnegie Steel in the same period and I would argue Walmart and some other very large present day companies are NOT the result of free markets but of laissez faire unfettered capitalism. The regulatory side of the free market has failed in the United States and what we have is oligopoly and/or fledgling monopoly both !
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are described as detrimental to free markets by no less a personage than Adam Smith who just happened to coin the term free markets as we know it.</div> <div> </div> <div><font family="SERIF" ptsize="12" face="Georgia" lang="0" size="3">Don Huskey<br><br>"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi</font></div></font>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br></blockquote><br></div><p>
        
        
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