Why should politicians that you and I elect hand out subsidies at all? Corporate welfare sucks. Is Walmart holding a gun to the heads of our elected officials?
Shifting the blame? Someone walks in your office handing out as many $100 bills as you can carry, am I to believe you won't take any because of your "conservative" principles?
What I do is not the point. I am just pointing out the fact that Walmart is not the bastion of conservatism that some people seem to think it is.
I don't hate Walmart and I actually will shop there once in awhile if I need something that I can't get at a better price or quality somewhere else. I just don't pretend that Walmart is something it is not. It is a giant corporation that at the end of the day, will do whatever is best for itself, not neccessarily what is best for its customers, not for any local community, or for the United States.