Feed dealer outbids Wal-Mart for fair pig

Country today ^ | 8-16-03 | Dana Pronschinske

[Texas_Dawg]

Good for him. Free-market capitalism is a beautiful thing.

Wal-Mart is one of the greatest institutions America has ever created.

[StatesEnemy]

Wal-Mart is one of the greatest institutions America has ever created.

Ya. They've done a wonderful job cannibalizing local economies, with sweatshop wares.

[joesnuffy]

Chinese slave labor discount store...aced out
-decent!

[Valpal1]

Soooeeeeeeeeee! $3562.50 for a 4-H, that's only $3450 over market value. Our daughter received $2.50 lb. for her swine project hog. The grand champion went for $5.50.

Should note that here our 4-H market hogs must weigh 230-280 lbs or cannot be sold at auction. This girl would not have made the grade at our fair.

[Texas_Dawg]

Ya. They've done a wonderful job cannibalizing local economies, with sweatshop wares.

They've actually been one of the greatest boons to local economies that the U.S. has ever seen from one corporation. Towns everywhere are begging to get them. Not that facts will do anything to diminish your anti-business Marxist worldview though.

[Guillermo]

Wal mart would shut its doors if people didn't shop there...

[StatesEnemy]

Towns everywhere are begging to get them.

Been smokin' that mexican again, eh?

TD, you're just a typical Free Trade idjit.

[Texas_Dawg]

TD, you're just a typical Free Trade idjit.

You mean a capitalist as opposed to a socialist like you? Absolutely.

I wonder how you explain the overwhelming growth and popularity of Wal-Mart ($62,640,000,000 in sales in the past 3 months). I guess all the people shopping there were forced into it or something.

[rmmcdaniell]

What would Wal-Mart want with a $3,500 pig? Breeding?

[StatesEnemy]

You're not a capitalist. You're a filthy robber baron.

You believe in slave labor - and bleeding the middle class to pad the bank accounts of the elite few.

You and your ilk herald the systematic destruction of the US - it's happening as we speak.

[Texas_Dawg]

You're not a capitalist. You're a filthy robber baron.

Uh huh... Yawn...

[Dan from Michigan]

Good. Walmart sucks. They backed Klinton, and have everything made in China.

So I take my business elsewhere.

[Texas_Dawg]

You and your ilk herald the systematic destruction of the US - it's happening as we speak.

Haha. Really?

The U.S. holds a larger market share of the world's economy (approx. 33%) than at any time in its history. The average American (your beloved "little man") lives an easier life and is wealthier than any person of his equivalent position anywhere else on Earth at this time or at any other point in the history of the world. You sound like the perfect leftist Democrat. The sky is always falling despite every single fact which points to the exact opposite.

[Texas_Dawg]

So I take my business elsewhere.

And that's your right. You're in a very small minority though.

[Dan from Michigan]

You're in a very small minority though.

Maybe, but that's $40 a week that doesn't go to Klintler backers.

[StatesEnemy]

What planet are you living on?

'Average Americans' are so far in hock as to be functionally serfs.

Explain to me, ohhh Lone Star Mutt, how a country that doesn't produce anything can survive.

[LibKill]

fair pig

Is that a good-looking pig?

"You can put a dress and lipstick on a pig and drive it downtown, but it's still a pig."

[Texas_Dawg]

Maybe, but that's $40 a week that doesn't go to Klintler backers.

Or to help feed and clothe 1.3 million Americans and their families directly employed by Wal-Mart.

[Texas_Dawg]

'Average Americans' are so far in hock as to be functionally serfs.

Can you show me the economic data of yours that disproves my statement that the average American is wealthier than the average citizen of any society in the history of the world? Please, name me one society whose average citizen is wealthier than the average American today.