Let's kill Wal-Mart

[votefreedomfirst]

Just to be clear, QFT is an acronym for "quoted for truth".

 

[Melissa]

I don't shop at walmart any more and have not for months, thier are other stores it just takes a bit of looking around

 

[Truth Warrior]

Oh, I looked up "qft" and all I could find was "quit fucking talking".

Since you quoted my post, I thought you meant me.

Ok, misunderstanding, I apologize I guess.

Friends?

qft = "quoted for truth".

Apology accepted, I guess.

Your call, it's up to you. I'll survive, either way.

 

[AJ Antimony]

One, we haven't even been able to get 100,000 people out of 1.2 million to simply sign up on a fuckin website, let alone work together on a project

And Two, Wal-Mart hating is BULLSHIT!

 

[Truth Warrior]

One, we haven't even been able to get 100,000 people out of 1.2 million to simply sign up on a fuckin website, let alone work together on a project

And Two, Wal-Mart hating is BULLSHIT!

qft!

 

[yongrel]

I like Walmart. I am on a shoestring budget, and it's fantastic to be able to buy everything that I need for under 30 bucks. If you can find another store where I can buy 3 tshirts, 1 pair of shorts, a 6 foot extension cord, Thomas the Tank Engine bedding, and double-sided tape for less than the $28.90 I paid this morning, don't keep it to yourself.

Walmart has helped the poor of this country far more than any government program.

 

[Petar]

One, we haven't even been able to get 100,000 people out of 1.2 million to simply sign up on a fuckin website, let alone work together on a project

And Two, Wal-Mart hating is BULLSHIT!

Well, we have more than 80,000 people that the CFL will hopefully promote this project to, and that would be a very good start.

And if it starts making significant money for the businesses who participate, then why should not all of the 1.2 million people who voted for Ron hear about it quickly?

Don't you think that money is a good motivator?

I'm not really asking people to do any work, I'm just asking businesses to sign up, so that we'll all have an easy way to find each others businesses.

Unless I'm mistaken, shopping is also a common activity that people regularly participate in anyways?

 

[Truth Warrior]

I like Walmart. I am on a shoestring budget, and it's fantastic to be able to buy everything that I need for under 30 bucks. If you can find another store where I can buy 3 tshirts, 1 pair of shorts, a 6 foot extension cord, Thomas the Tank Engine bedding, and double-sided tape for less than the $28.90 I paid this morning, don't keep it to yourself.

Walmart has helped the poor of this country far more than any government program.

I've recently just fallen in love with "Dollar Tree", etc., etc.

Everything for a FRN.

 

[acptulsa]

Walmart has helped the poor of this country far more than any government program.

Yes indeed. By acting as a major clearing house for imported goods of every description, they have helped a whole bunch of blue collar middle class people escape the drudgery of their backbreaking jobs. And out of the middle class, but that's beside the point. Right? What better way to help the poor than to increase their numbers so they aren't all alone?

And, yes, there were government programs that made it all possible.

 

[Petar]

I like Walmart. I am on a shoestring budget, and it's fantastic to be able to buy everything that I need for under 30 bucks. If you can find another store where I can buy 3 tshirts, 1 pair of shorts, a 6 foot extension cord, Thomas the Tank Engine bedding, and double-sided tape for less than the $28.90 I paid this morning, don't keep it to yourself.

Walmart has helped the poor of this country far more than any government program.

Okey doke, fair enough, shoe-string budget, and Wal-Mart sells cheap stuff.

Well, hopefully when all liberty supporters are listing their businesses on here and supporting each other, then maybe you can find some competitive deals.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could also know that your money was also going towards liberty campaigns, and maybe even made in America products?

That's all that I'm going for here really.

That, and maybe a way to work in gold based or alternative currencies too.

 

[Truth Warrior]

I once saw a "BUY AMERICAN!" sign in a WalMart.

On the back, in fine print, it said "Printed in CHINA".

 

[NEPA_Revolution]

Hasnt anyone seen the south park wal-mart episode? You have to break the heart by the TV section

 

[Ozwest]

I love Walmart for their efficiency and effectiveness. I hate protectionism, and I hate the minimum wage. Eliminate the minimum wage and you've made Walmart's current business model much less appealing.

For those advocating the end of the currently dismal minimum wage, why not similar dissatifaction towards over-blown executive salaries, perks, and severance packages?

It is the minimum wage earners fault that the economy is in decline, not Enron type executives, unscrupulous private parties, greedy lenders, apathetic politicians, thieves, and con men.

Who is exploiting people and weakening civil society?

The person flipping your burger or cleaning your toilet. Makes perfect sense.

 

[liberteebell]

what's wrong with wallmart?

by attacking wallmart, you're attacking a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. the fact that America can trade paper dollars for the import of real goods that can be sold for cheap in wallmart is a good thing for the time being. unfortunately, that system will come crashing down because it's not sustainable... so this is what you need to be attacking... not wallmart. they're just running a business, and they run the business very well. if you want America to start to produce things, they can't have the ability to print paper dollars instead of producing real goods.

+1

I can walk to the nearest brand new Super Wal-Mart in my town but I rarely shop there. I despise Wal-Mart, mainly because of how they use eminent domain to acquire property to build their stores. Even so, Wal-Mart is the symptom; who can blame a business for taking advantage of free government assistance and our broken monetary system?

My little "Boycott of One" is to avoid paying taxes or reducing the amount of taxes I pay by buying used goods at garage sales, thrift shops, pawn shops, flea markets, bartering and private sales; buying only necessities at retail stores, doing without the latest fad such as wide screen teevees, and just plain doing without PERIOD. I don't drive unless I absolutely have to and then, I try to combine several errands in one trip.

I otherwise support small businesses whenever possible, and if I know of a Liberty person who runs a business, I support them.

It's difficult to get kids out of the Consumerism mode, especially when all their friends have the latest and greatest of everything but I certainly try to minimize how much my family participates.

 

[Petar]

For those advocating the end of the currently dismal minimum wage, why not similar dissatifaction towards over-blown executive salaries, perks, and severance packages?

It is the minimum wage earners fault that the economy is in decline, not Enron type executives, unscrupulous private parties, greedy lenders, apathetic politicians, thieves, and con men.

Who is exploiting people and weakening civil society?

The person flipping your burger or cleaning your toilet. Makes perfect sense.

Well, I don't believe in minimum or maximum wages, but I certainly don't appreciate criminals in the market place, particularly the super rich ones like Enron executives who cause the most damage.

People need to realize that it is crime, and not capitalism itself that needs to be controlled.

The simple fact of the matter is that the bigger the government, then the less power people have over it, so the easier it is for criminals to penetrate.

The federal reserve system would be a prime example of the biggest criminals in the world, in collusion with some of the biggest government in the world, causing some of the worst destruction possible within a society.

So no, I don't want a maximum wage, I want a smaller government, and that would be the opposite.

So hopefully, when the Fed is abolished one day, then maybe the criminals who run it can actually see justice at some point.

That's the dream anyways...

 

[mediahasyou]

Walmart is helping 3rd world countries modernize. If walmart were not to bring their stores into china, the Chinese would have worse jobs and would be stuck in subsistance farming. However, Walmart can provide cheaper and better products for the Chinese; Therefore, China can focus on more modern services and products than what Walmart sells. Therefore, giving the Chinese better quality jobs.

 

[Petar]

+1

I can walk to the nearest brand new Super Wal-Mart in my town but I rarely shop there. I despise Wal-Mart, mainly because of how they use eminent domain to acquire property to build their stores. Even so, Wal-Mart is the symptom; who can blame a business for taking advantage of free government assistance and our broken monetary system?

My little "Boycott of One" is to avoid paying taxes or reducing the amount of taxes I pay by buying used goods at garage sales, thrift shops, pawn shops, flea markets, bartering and private sales; buying only necessities at retail stores, doing without the latest fad such as wide screen teevees, and just plain doing without PERIOD. I don't drive unless I absolutely have to and then, I try to combine several errands in one trip.

I otherwise support small businesses whenever possible, and if I know of a Liberty person who runs a business, I support them.

It's difficult to get kids out of the Consumerism mode, especially when all their friends have the latest and greatest of everything but I certainly try to minimize how much my family participates.

Well, I do agree that Wal-Mart is a symptom of the disease as opposed to being the disease itself, but I also know that if we can organize ourselves to defeat them in the free-market, then we will have a lot more power to effect the political changes that we need to make in order to cure the disease.

You sound like you are doing a good job on your own, and all that I am trying to do is make it easier for all of us to follow suite en-mass.

 

[Truth Warrior]

The BIGGEST customer of China, Inc. IS WalMart.

Perhaps WalMart is merely a CIA plot. Just get them dependent on WalMart and then cut their throat.

 

[Roxi]

i already boycotted walmart... and i work for one of its competitors, but my boycott was based on the fact that they are evil, not that they import from china, because my company also gets most of its products from china, so does kmart, and dollar general... so if we boycotted based on that we wouldn't be shopping anywhere

 

[Petar]

i already boycotted walmart... and i work for one of its competitors, but my boycott was based on the fact that they are evil, not that they import from china, because my company also gets most of its products from china, so does kmart, and dollar general... so if we boycotted based on that we wouldn't be shopping anywhere

Well, if the 1.2 million people who voted for Ron all list their businesses here: www.freemarketforliberty.com then you'll probably have a lot of places to shop that may be competitive, and may provide you with the added bonus of supporting liberty campaigns (a tool will be added to show this).

Many of these businesses may sell made in America products to, so all in all it will be very excellent for America.