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This has nothing to do with anyones post, but one of my friends made a somewhat off color comment the other day about how Wal-Mart was promoting a subversive kind of communism.
He quoted Ronald Reagan in saying that we should never have to stand in line for bread, but then said,"But we do anyway, when we shop at Wal-Mart."
It's kind of like choosing your own communism, but in a way, that's kind of what we're coming to. Wal-Mart was only recently pushed out of being the most profitable company by Exxon-Mobile this last week. Wal-Mart carries everything everyone needs (not necessarily wanting.) and it has the corporate power to buy out all of its competitors as well as shutting down small businesses and turning rural townships into ghost towns with its practices.
I have known many people who have worked for Wal-Mart, and they have yet to recieve any sort of raise which is fair to what the living wage is. But this is also standard American corporate practice.
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