Thomas Sowell: Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

Capitalism Magazine ^ | December 9, 2003 | Thomas Sowell

[SierraWasp]

Can you name the senior Senator of Walmart?"

Literally LMAO&PIMP!!! (snort!)

[1Old Pro]

Thanks for posting this. Sowell is a breath of fresh air, isn't he? How I wish he'd take a more public stand...his writing is excellent, but gets to so few people.

Add me to that list. Imagine a prime time cable interview show with Sowell amnd Walter Williams as co-hosts? DYNAMITE.

[Bobby Chang]

Airbus is actually run by a consortium of European governments and that was Boeing's complaint -- the government spends money on running Airbus.

[Beaware60]

Competitors......Oh really! Well, alot of people work for their those competitors. I myself work for a c-store distribution center that is privately owned. And it is harder for us to compete against Sam's. And as if things aren't bad enough they are now opening c-stores. So now the people that buy from them to stock their stores are now going to lose their stores to the Neighborhood c-stores which are owned by Wal-Mart....Give them time they will own the USA. Wake up America! The choices that we letting the government make for us is going to destroy us. Our country is no longer our own.

[Middle Man]

"At one time, the A & P grocery chain had 15,000 stores but now they have shrunk so drastically that there are probably millions of people -- especially in the younger generation -- who don't even know that they exist."

I remember a chain called "Jitney Jungle" from my youth. Clever name, anyway.

[JLS]

Yeah competitors. I would make more if no foreigners were allowed to come to the US to work in my areas. But they are routinely allowed and the US is better for it.

Competition is good for us. It makes us more efficient and productive.