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   lalas said, 5 months ago

   Inaney, I am stunned that you just don’t get it.
   /snark

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Wal Mart definitely “giveth with one hand, while taking away with the other”. The image has LOTS of fine print in their corporation “benevolence”. But the real issue is on consumers part as well, if we didn’t jump like sheep toward only the lowest price, instead of quality, all those jobs might not have gone to china. Now China does produce better quality too, how sad is that!

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   deadheadzan said, 5 months ago

   Danziger’s got this one right. I remember Walmart advertising that their products were made in the USA.

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   tpenna said, 5 months ago

   Good luck, DPR. I’ve tried meeting ANandy’s arguments with reason and facts before as well. He goes along pretty well for awhile before hopping off on tangents, hoping to distract you. Don’t get too sucked in, or it will waste all of your time.

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   oldlegodad said, 5 months ago

   tpenna speak truth. Amos is real nutcase.

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   fennec said, 5 months ago

   ^ ^^ agree.

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   lalas said, 5 months ago

   Why do think I call him Inaney?

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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   ^^^^ agreed … the avatar with the 666 puts me off right away … and the posts just confirm it

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   longtimecomicsfan said, 5 months ago

   Ya gotta admit that it’s pretty hilarious (as well as a clue to the person’s psychological makeup) when the poster refers to themself by name!

   Insane Andy replies: Is that second or third person singular?

   At any rate, Wal-Mart by definition cannot be “too big to fail” since that term specifically refers to the government position that large, money center banks that are central to the Federal Reserve system of overnight lending would bring down the entire financial system if the government just stood by while they went insolvent - kind of like Lehman Brothers (which probably shouldn’t have been allowed to fail and arguably made the situation much worse when they did).

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    Simon_Jester said, 5 months ago

    longtimescomicsfan…Charles DeGaulle also liked to refer to himself in that manner.

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    deadheadzan said, 5 months ago

    Universal, affordable health care taken off the backs of some, if not most, employers, would be a tremendous boost to the employers. Imagine the freedom for the individual if they did not have to depend on a certain job with a certain employer, to gain the benefit of paying for their own, affordable policy.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    Senor Bullwinkle responds too, to A NINNY, So Wal-mart DOES NOT pay a living wage. Workers are forced to seek FOOD STAMPS and HEALTH CARE from the state and the fed.
    Wal-mart kills better paying jobs, by killing small businesses.
    little towns give tax breaks for Wal-mart to come to town. Then their tax base starts to dry up when small business fail, and workers cant find jobs, and have to go on welfare.

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    pbarnrob said, 5 months ago

    “There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.”
    –John Ruskin (at first I thought it was Ben Franklin).

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    believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

    Recommend a documentary called “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.”

    I too remember when Wal-Mart promotions used to stress a “made in America” theme. Now, it’s difficult to find much of anything in the store that is made in USA

    Wal-Mart snookers cities into believing they will create jobs (even thought they are low-end jobs) because it usually ends up a zero-sum game. The jobs Wal-mart creates just come from other stores that teeter, totter and finally go under. And then, when all its competitors are gone, it raises prices.

    Where I live, since Wal-Mart came to town, these other similar, discount stores have closed: K-Mart, Big Lots, Factory 2 U, Mervyns, and I think I’m forgetting at least one other. Now if I decide I want a new shower curtain or new table cloth, or a slew of other household goods, there is ONLY one store left. Sometimes I shop out of town because I don’t like Wal-Mart and what it does to local economies.

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    Michigander said, 5 months ago

    Our city rejected a Wal Mart a few years ago for fear it would kill our downtown businesses and those are what make it unique. Good for them. Anyone here who wants to go to one has to go west 15 miles and shop away to their hearts content.

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    olfart said, 5 months ago

    THIS is why I read the comments! Thanks, everyone, for your thought-provoking insights.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 5 months ago

    CF Bastiat famously argued that the only legitimate role of government was to protect the rights of the individual. He also described public education as a redistribution of wealth and declared that wherever socialism takes root, communism must follow.

    Yet, we know with certainty that countries that do not provide public education are among the poorest and least productive in the world. (The Chief Economist at the IMF discusses the difficulty of implementing infrastructure projects in a country populated mostly by illiterate farmers…who runs the water plant when nobody can read?)

    And somehow, we come to the conclusion that gaining access to health care is best left to the individual. But businesses obviously need a healthy work force to be productive, just like they need an educated workforce. How would supermarkets function if they couldn’t get employees that could read and show up for work reasonably often? Or if their employees had to quit every time they got injured?

    Government does not exist without the consent of the governed. Business does not exist without the permission of government. (Except for drug traffickers, right?) So where does the responsibility to provide for social good reside? In government, of course, which regulates business and thus makes the charter of business to be at least not antagonistic to the public good.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    DRED, my hero. You should run for some office, and kick some @ss !
    .
    Did you know that everyone dies ? Do you know how many family’s don’t have the money to take care of the dead ? And I don’t mean a funeral, I mean, pay to dispose of the body ? I mean, my nephew died not to long ago. S.S. I think, came up with $250.00 and we had to come up with another $250.00 dollars, along with a ambulance fee and fire dept. fee.
    .
    He had a good job that gave medical insurance, but he got sick. He had water around his heart and breathing problems
    .. He went to the hospital. First for a week, then a month later, he was in again . He was out of work for 2 weeks, and went back to work. Then a month later, back to the hospital for 4 days. Then they let him go (fired) at work. 1 month later lost his medical insurance. 2 months later he was dead. GOD BLESS AMERICA. And he was a F ing republican,… to the end ! Altho he did file for state med, and was waiting for it.
    He was 32, wife and 2 kids. Tell me MR. REPUBLICAN who won here ? But YOU still have your money in your pocket, except now the kids will get S.S. food stamps and what every else. Still think we don’t need health care? Where are his kids going to get health care ? From there paper route ?

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    HEY, DRED, I really thought you quit, after old gonad told you that social security was a pyramid scheme. LOL ! I almost died laughing .

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    Preventive health care, I believe, would have saved his life, and in turn, saved the tax payer from paying for this family to live in poverty for the next several years. and when the kids turn 18, they can go buy health care, like all good 18 year old’s do. Sure they do !

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    tpenna said, 5 months ago

    Hey, Irish. This really isn’t the place for proselytism. And while you’re at it, perhaps you should turn from your hateful portrayal of Barack Obama (a Christian, whom you seem to urge others not to hate) in your avatar.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    HEY, SATIPERA4, You say the Chinese capitalist don’t care, and the answer is no. Well the answer is , They don’t have to. China is communist. Therefore the people are taken care of by the state.
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    HEY, N/A ANDY, Da bisnuss of bisnuss is bisnuss. Business is NOT for social programs.
    Really. Did you get that line from Dickens, “a Christmas carol” or the Godfather ?
    I’ve seen on the TV, where companies not only have insurance, but maternity leave and day care centers as well. Some help with the elderly, sick kid’s and the like.
    N / A ANDY I think your hard, greedy, cold, cruel, unkind, selfish, and unAmerican, but that’s just my opinion.