Quote:Wal-Mart has done more to help the poor than the Catholic Church and the Salvation Army
I was tired last night when I read this and thought it was stupid. After reafding it again this morning I just came to the conclusion this is one of the most assinine comments I have ever read on this site.
Lech Walensva(sic) said that before the Pope visited Poland the solidarity movement was going nowhere and was ragtag and was actually folding. He said the Pope rallied the people and that is what got the solidarity movment going. He said without the Popes visit the crushing of the comunist would NOT have happened. It was the key factor.
Also I'm Catholic and I know what my local church does for the poor. Walmart could not hold a candle.
Charities help a very few poor a great deal. WalMart helps a great lot of poor a little bit. Prices for generic stuff carried by WalMart are the same or less today than 20 years ago. That's thanks to WalMart, either by selling things cheap, or forcing their competition to do so.
I tried to find an office chair 5 years ago, and most were several hundred bucks, many almost a thousand. Last week, I bought a great leather office chair for only a bit over one hundred bucks. Cheap stuff is great.