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Any ideas why a Wal-Mart exec would give such a large amount to a guy who hates capitalism?

My best guesses:

1. Obamugabe is a pansy when it comes to standing up against China, and China is a big source of inventory for Wal-Mart. If Obamugabe played tough with China, China might "punish" Wal-Mart by slowing down their product distribution.

2. Obamugabe hates capitalism, but most of his hatred, for now, is targeted toward SMALL businesses...and Wal-Mart is likely big enough and rich enough to weather four more years. Besides, if small businesses in America are strangled to death by Obamugabe, Wal-Mart can more easily get a bigger share of the market.

1 posted on 10/22/2012 12:02:20 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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>>>”1. Obamugabe is a pansy when it comes to standing up against China, and China is a big source of inventory for Wal-Mart. If Obamugabe played tough with China, China might “punish” Wal-Mart by slowing down their product distribution.”

Tariffs on less costly foreign goods don’t work and never have. The only victims of such economic punishment would be those who shop at Wal-Mart, whose costs of providing for their families would then rise.

>>>>”2. Obamugabe hates capitalism, but most of his hatred, for now, is targeted toward SMALL businesses...and Wal-Mart is likely big enough and rich enough to weather four more years. Besides, if small businesses in America are strangled to death by Obamugabe, Wal-Mart can more easily get a bigger share of the market. “

Bingo. The thing that Big Business fears most of all is the free market: they love capitalism when they themselves were struggling to become Big; once they succeed, however, they fear competition from upstarts who want to knock them off their perch. It’s much easier for Big Business to be a crony to Big Government than it is to compete constantly in the free market.

That’s why big, established businesses often lobby in favor of government regulation in their own industries; it imposes an economic hurdle that smaller, more innovative, upstart businesses cannot pass.


75 posted on 10/22/2012 1:21:45 PM PDT by GoodDay
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Wallmart shoppers already stupidly support China, why not Obama? / s


78 posted on 10/22/2012 1:42:39 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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Rob Walton (son) is the chairman. His full name is Samuel Robert Walton, so I guess the reporter could call him Sam.


80 posted on 10/22/2012 1:48:46 PM PDT by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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hmmm...I smell a shakedown...


81 posted on 10/22/2012 1:55:23 PM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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I thought Sam Walton was dead, does he have a son also named Sam?


84 posted on 10/22/2012 2:30:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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I recently set up a computer workstation in my back room.

I searched 3 different Walmarts for a computer stand/desk.

Not happy with ANY of the CRAP they had, I just built my own. Came out WAY better and cost $10 (2-2x2’s at Home Depot, some screws). Everything else was scavenged. Now painted, it even looks good.


86 posted on 10/22/2012 3:27:03 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com (I AM UNREPRESENTED))
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Dont matter. My wife (the lib) still won’t shop there.


88 posted on 10/22/2012 5:02:16 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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