<div id="RTEContent"> <pre><tt>"The arguements given below are pretty weak. <br>Sorry, but "Someone wants to walk or ride a <br>bike to WalMart"? What does THAT have to do with <br>ANYthing?"--Jackie Woolf<br><br>And what does anything that the Anti-Wal-Mart forces presented<br>have anything to do with anything?<br><br>If I want a Wal-Mart because it is blue, that should be<br>reason enough. It is my choice as a consumer to shop at<br>only Blue stores when Elizabeth is the Queen of England.<br><br>Is it rational, is it connected to reality, is it arguable?<br>No, it isn't, but either is the misinformation being<br>presented by the anti-Wal-Mart forces. Everyone of their<br>claims from Low Wages(40% over minimum), no health insurance<br>($11 a month after full-time status for 6 months like any <br>other company), they buy stuff from China(everyone does,<br>including the Co-Op), and force people onto disability benefits,<br>have all be discredited.<br><br>Your only legitima!
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argument is that the building is ugly<br>and blocking the view of dead people. And as someone whose<br>plot is going to be blocked, I can honestly say I am not going<br>to care and nobody else has said a thing. <br><br></tt> "The reasons that people object to WalMart, KMart, Target, Costco, etc. has <br>NOTHING to do with limiting shoppers choices and certainly has NOTHING to do <br>with limiting the poor (personally, that argument is so lame, its hardly <br>worth much more notice than that) and it has nothing to do with dictating <br>what a landowner can/cannot do with their land"<br><br>But that is what you are doing regardless of if that is<br>your intention or not. <br><br><tt>_DJA<br><br><br><br> <br><br><br></tt></pre> <br><br><b><i>J Ford <privatejf32@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> The reasons that people object to WalMart, KMart, Target, Costco, etc!
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<br>NOTHING to do with limiting shoppers choices and certainly has NOTHING to do <br>with limiting the poor (personally, that argument is so lame, its hardly <br>worth much more notice than that) and it has nothing to do with dictating <br>what a landowner can/cannot do with their land (BTW, that is done daily - <br>can't build a fence on your property higher than 4ft., can't build just any <br>kind of building anywhere you want in town/county, etc.)<br><br>What it has to do with is the fear (or better yet, concern) for the economy <br>and the autonomy of the town. As well, it has to do with what people see <br>corporations do to their workers (or not do to the them; i.e., provide <br>proper level of health insurance, decent pay, etc.)<br><br>If those arguing on an emotional level could just rise out of that and look <br>into the facts and present logical, non-emotional arguments, it might help <br>move things along.<br><br>The arguements given below are pretty weak. Sorr!
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"Someone wants to <br>walk or ride a bike to WalMart"? What does THAT have to do with ANYthing?<br><br>And please, for once keep the response on a non-nasty level - just write <br>about the facts or arguments as you see them; don't attack the person <br>writing about this, ok? (Please re-read my statement in para 3 - the <br>ARGUMENT is weak, not the person making it.)<br><br>J :]<br><br><br><br><br><br>> If you want reason of why it limits choice I will give you several of <br>>them;<br>><br>> Someone does not have a car to drive to Pullman<br>><br>> Someone does not want to burn the gas to drive to Pullman<br>><br>> Someone does not WANT to drive to Pullman<br>><br>> Someone does not have the TIME to drive to Pullman<br>><br>> Someone is not allowed to go to Pullman or cross state lines<br>><br>> Someone wants to work at a Super Wal-Mart in Idaho<br>><br>> Some one does not want to pay 5% tax on
groceries<br>><br>> Someone wants to keep tax dollars in Idaho<br>><br>> Someone wants to do one stop shopping in Idaho<br>><br>> Someone wants to go for long walks indoors in the winter or rain<br>><br>> Someone wants to do donuts in their big parking lot a 12PM<br>><br>> Someone wants to walk or ride a bike to Wal-mart<br>><br>> There is giant snow storm a Pullman is too far<br>><br>> There ice cream might melt<br>><br>> There trunk does not close and want to avoid the highway<br>><br>> They get lost in Pullman<br>><br>> They hate Pullman<br>><br>> Pullman traffic is horrible because they have a game<br>><br>> They do not know their way around Pullman<br>><br>> They like the Color Blue<br>><br>> The Queen of England is English<br>><br>> Their girlfriend is ugly<br>><br>> OK so the last three were irrational and illogical but so is the <br>>re!
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