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Mmmm baby. I hear you! Damn boy! Can I have some biscuits and gravy in the morning?? :-P I'm not knocking em at all. I shop at Wal-Mart. I get clothes, fishing gear, lawn and garden, etc etc. It's just that to me, Wal-Mart is a large discount retail store and that's all it is. I think it's twisted that it's a political issue. Bizarre, really.

[Steve_Seattle]

My son works for Barnes & Noble, and a few weeks ago a liberal woman (customer) told him that she only buys books at B & N because it supports Democratic candidates. My son didn't tell her that B & N pays him only a little bit above minimum wage, and he has no medical benefits. Moreover - and my son didn't know this - when the B & N came in, it put out of business a small, locally-owned bookstore that had been in that mall for years. I told that anecdote to my liberal sister - who self-righteously refuses to ever set foot in a WalMart - and she had no reply.

You are right: the left has just singled out Walmart, as they periodically do with one or another major capitalist enterprise, and the media picks it up and runs with it. But they never seem to pick on liberal-owne dbusinesses with similar practices. And if Castro pays his workers $2.00 a day, the libs have no problem with that.

[Zon]

I think it's twisted that it's a political issue.

Why is it a political issue? Why does a dog lick it's private parts? Because it can.

 Bizarre, really.

Actually, it's but one of many bizarre issues that emanate from the much larger arena of bizarre politics. Politics is not the solution. Politics is the problem. Yet there are endless debates arguing to vote for this candidate over that candidate. Yet voting for the lesser of evils still begets evil.

Problem: dishonesty, irrational principle.

Solution: honesty, rational principle.

The federal government creates about 3,000 new laws and regulations each year. Each state has it's own mini-mountain of laws it creates each year. How is it that in the past hundred years individuals and society increasingly prospered without the new "must have" laws that politicians and bureaucrats proclaimed that without them persons and society would run headlong to self-destruction? How do persons and society increase wealth today without next year's new laws and the new laws to come five, ten, twenty-five years ahead? 

Critics of capitalism proclaim from on high that they will save us and society from destroying itself. Their solution is to tax, obstruct and even plunder that which creates wealth.

Capitalism and the workers that fuel it are the host. Politicians and bureaucrats are parasites living off the host. They leech just enough to gain unearned paychecks, prestige and power. Sure to not so encumber the host where it reduces its production of goods and services beyond that which would leave the parasites to perish. For the parasitical elites cannot produce those much needed, life sustaining necessities.

Calling it bizarre would be an understatement. It's lethal. It's the anti-civilization.