Originally posted by: Sweeney599
Wasn't Wal-Mart the company that put mom and pop stores on main street out of business? Also those scholarships and charities are chump change to Wal-Mart. They only do that stuff to look good.
Originally posted by: C3PX
Corporations have to be "greedy" the whole point is to make money.
and not serve humanity. thanks for making my point, moron. Wasn't it your Saviour said you can't serve two masters at the same?
Sweeney, I don't give a damn what my "Saviour" said. Would you please stop using scriptures of which you know nothing about and have no respect for in order to "prove" your points. It is really getting retarded. I am not going around pushing my religious beliefs on you, stop pushing what you "think" my religious beliefs are on me.
Originally posted by: C3PX
I find it ironic companies like Wal-Mart are evil greedy corporate empires that are making the world a horrible place, while at the same time the poor single mothers who Hilary claims to be supporting probably all shop at Wal-Mart because they can afford it. You know that the even greedy Wal-Mart even gives out scholarships and supports charities. How dare they!.
Corporations have to be "greedy" the whole point is to make money.
and not serve humanity. thanks for making my point, moron. Wasn't it your Saviour said you can't serve two masters at the same?
Sweeney, I don't give a damn what my "Saviour" said. Would you please stop using scriptures of which you know nothing about and have no respect for in order to "prove" your points. It is really getting retarded. I am not going around pushing my religious beliefs on you, stop pushing what you "think" my religious beliefs are on me.
Originally posted by: C3PX
I find it ironic companies like Wal-Mart are evil greedy corporate empires that are making the world a horrible place, while at the same time the poor single mothers who Hilary claims to be supporting probably all shop at Wal-Mart because they can afford it. You know that the even greedy Wal-Mart even gives out scholarships and supports charities. How dare they!.
Wasn't Wal-Mart the company that put mom and pop stores on main street out of business? Also those scholarships and charities are chump change to Wal-Mart. They only do that stuff to look good.
Yes, Wal-Mart does put mom and pop stores out of business. It is called economics. If you really understood it you could see that you are free to shop where ever you want. The only thing Wal-Mart is guilty of is providing better prices and services. It is the consumers choice of whether or not to shop there. The market (essentially the consumer) decides who will live and who will die. The mom and pop store can't provide prices as low as Wal-Mart, sure, that is sad. But they have the option to adapt and attempt to compete, if they can't then they have to close shop. If they go out of business it is not because Wal-Mart put them out of business, it is because the market chose Wal-Mart over the mom and pop store.
If we really felt this was a great injustice upon mom and pop stores, as you seem to, then rather than having the government tax them to death (which = prices go up, and we the consumers make up for it), or having the government regulate them in ways that somehow restricts them from putting small businesses out of business, why not just go out and practice your freedom of speech by telling people not to shop at Wal-Mart and letting them know how they are destroying small businesses. If your news media outlets would start pumping that into people's brains and informing them how the power to turn the tides on Wal-Mart is in their hands, and that if they would shop at mom and pop's instead of Wal-Mart, mom and pop wouldn't be out of business. Ironically many small businesses use Sam's Club as a means for aquiring inexpensive supplies and merchandise... not quite sure how that adds up but... whatever.
"Also those scholarships and charities are chump change to Wal-Mart. They only do that stuff to look good."
Yup, no doubt. But chump change or not, it is still money that is going to help people. A good deed done for an arguably selfish purpose is still a good deed is it not? If Ebeneser Scrooge offered you five hundred bucks, and somebody else offered you five cents, which one would you rather have? Sure, appreciate them both, but the five hundred bucks is going to stretch a lot further than the five cents.
Hmm, if you added up all the mom and pop stores and all their donations and scholarships they provide, I wonder how it would add up to Wal-Mart's chump change?