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For Profit, Anti-Poverty: No institution or agency has done more to help the poor than Walmart
City Journal ^ | 04/17/2017 | John Tierney

Posted on 04/17/2017 2:27:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/17/2017 2:27:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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NO WALMART HAS BEEN THE DEATH OF SMALL RETAIL.

Now, look at the individual lives of the Walton clan....billionaire nitwits and loony leftist.

Walmart is a curse.


2 posted on 04/17/2017 2:32:55 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: SeekAndFind

Praise Government from who all blessings flow!
Praise it all creatures, fear it so!
Praise it above the Heavenly Host!
Praise Government’s sons or you are toast!......................


3 posted on 04/17/2017 2:33:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberals have decided that they hate Wal Mart. It doesn’t matter what facts are presented, they will hold to their theology that Was Mart hurts workers and hurt the poor and hurt all of us by their big market share of retailing.


4 posted on 04/17/2017 2:34:28 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I am pretty sure the reason lefties hate it, is the peasants shop there and they do not want to see the peasants. I kind of dont like being in the peasants presence either as they are quite revolting, but I would not fight to keep them from having a way to get modern gadgets at good prices. Unlike democrats who always try to ruin it for everybody, I just shop there at 7AM when the peasants are sleeping


5 posted on 04/17/2017 2:36:30 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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I am pretty sure the reason lefties hate it, is the peasants shop there and they do not want to see the peasants. I kind of dont like being in the peasants presence either as they are quite revolting, but I would not fight to keep them from having a way to get modern gadgets at good prices. Unlike democrats who always try to ruin it for everybody, I just shop there at 7AM when the peasants are sleeping


6 posted on 04/17/2017 2:36:48 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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Dem Pols hate Walmart and want to get rid of it by hiking the minimum wage. Funny that’s what they want to do with McDonald’s. Amazing how the want to sink these kind of boats for the poor to get out of poverty.


7 posted on 04/17/2017 2:37:41 PM PDT by CptnObvious
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—agree—Walmart has also done more to reduce medical costs ,I suspect than anything else in the last twenty years (although I don’t need most of the medications they sell at discount prices)—


8 posted on 04/17/2017 2:41:38 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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I live in a smallish Montana town ~ 15,000, with 65,000 in the entire county (BTW, this county is the size of the entire state of Delaware).

Walmart has been a boost here, our Downtown is thriving and folks come from 100+ miles to shop here Instead of Billings, for example.

Walmart has hurt small retail in many places, but it has only helped us here.

Peace.


9 posted on 04/17/2017 2:45:07 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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“...Walmart has also done more to reduce medical costs...”

Excellent point.

We had a diabetic cat and saved $100 a month on Walmart brand test-strips.

Over 10+ years those savings really added up.


10 posted on 04/17/2017 2:47:34 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Walmart in New York
Way way way way too redneck
City with no sleep


11 posted on 04/17/2017 2:49:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Peasants do annoy
Until you need something cheap
Then Walmart you shop


12 posted on 04/17/2017 2:51:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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When Walmarts move in, gas stations, restaurants, fast food and strip malls follow suit.

One small business makes way for another.

13 posted on 04/17/2017 3:00:16 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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HEY! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR 10 YEARS!!!

WHY WAL-MART IS GOOD FOR AMERICA: THE LOW COSTS FOR LOW COSTS


14 posted on 04/17/2017 3:00:41 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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Lol! Walmarts are surrounded by satellite businesses. Walmarts are good. We shop there all the time. $3.50 for a can of raisins at Walmart vs $5.00 at Harmons. All arrogant smarmy snobs can kma.


15 posted on 04/17/2017 3:01:35 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you V1orga feelthy.)
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The truth is, Walmart is a complete free market success story. Plus, love it or hate it, Walmart does help the poor and middle class purchase goods at less cost because they are highly competitive.

It is understandable the Left fights Walmart and small business at the same time. The Left has no interest in helping anyone.

Notice how the Left uses Walmart as a bogey man while sitting on its board? And at the same time they attack small business with regulation and taxes and anti-American laws? Yeah, that’d make perfect sense for someone intending to use poverty to control a population...like Marxists. The idea of Walmart is pretty good. The people who control Walmart and much of our three branches of government and the people running communist NYC- not so much.


16 posted on 04/17/2017 3:15:46 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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I disagree with the headline. Bill Gates created a capitalist marketing system that pulled entire 3d world economies into the 1st world. He made possible everything that followed in the worldwide tech boom.

Bill never had the best OS, or best spreadsheet or word processor. But his pure capitalist marketing system set the path for the tech explosion. Without it Apple, RadioShack, IBM, Commodore, Nintendo had no clue how to make it boom like Bill did. Cisco, Oracle, Dell, google, Amazon, etc would be very small if not for the capitalist marketing system created by Bill Gates.

More than Walmart, he brought people from poverty into the middle class. He caused the creation of more millionaires than anyone in history.


17 posted on 04/17/2017 3:27:01 PM PDT by spintreebob
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You save 5% buying imported cheap low quality crap. But to get that 5% "savings" in return you get massive unemployment, de industrialization, taxpayer funded welfare programs and massive trade deficits.

Great deal! /sarcasm

18 posted on 04/17/2017 3:34:37 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Walmart is also responsible for importing at least $50 billion worth of goods from China annually, or roughly 15% of the total US China trade deficit give or take. Additionally Walmart and their vendor base which includes a lot of tech companies employ a significant number of H1B visa holders.


19 posted on 04/17/2017 3:36:49 PM PDT by maxtheripper
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Great for the world, not so much for the average tech worker. I am not a citizen of the world. I am an America citizen and screw the rest of the world.

Bill Gates set software back decades and set wages back even farther. I hope he rots in hell one day.

20 posted on 04/17/2017 3:37:08 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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