I think DisturbedComputer is totally right in his initial point.
The truth of the matter is that I can get "stuff" at Walmart cheaper than I can at most other stores.
For a long time I refused to buy anything there because of the way they do business:
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Our government goes along with this crap. They allowed it! They created it and it was when Bill Clinton was president! Bush has added to the misery. Truly a bi-partisan effort. This article is from 2005 but the info is true enough:
WWW LinkOur government sold us out many years ago. Bush has made it his aim to eliminate the middle class and he has just about succeeded. I support a family of 4. I make ok money but in the last 5 or 6 years due to COMPUTERIZATION, bad luck and what I view as a greedy company my pay has gone down by at least 5 bucks an hr. I was laid off from a job I had for 33 years and have never recovered from it. I wasn't alone. The guy who was responsible for who got the ax was laid off himself a few months after I was. The people who replaced us all made 2 or 3 bucks an hour less than us and hadn't been with the company nearly as long as us. When asked how the evaluations were made we were told that the above mentioned guy had evaluated us. I asked how this could be because he only talked to me once for 10 min! 33 years down the drain in 10 min. It was a shame and a sham and all legal! In all this I have used up my retirement funds to make ends meet. My wifes health is bad so she doesn't work. If I made just a little less I could get food stamps! Do you know that for a child of the 50's how that makes me feel? Every year prices go up but pay either goes down or health care increases make it so any raise is immediately erased. Guess what I'm doing now? In the past 5 days I've applied for 10 part time jobs! One of the places was Walmart!
I'm not looking for sympathy. Through all this I still have a house, a car, a good credit rating. The boss I have now is great! I know she would do anything she could to help me. LOTS of people have it a lot worse than me.
The way I see it since Bush has been in power he has just made it better for the rich and made it so that the middle class are rapidly becoming poor. All this and Bush is against universal health care, I pay over 400 a month for my family, slants the tax system towards people who make 6 figures or more. The deficit is up to about 9 TRILLION! He's got the country so messed up he should be impeached!
I can't go on with this it gets me so upset. I'm 55 years old, I'll never be able to retire. My health better hold up or I'll end up in some county rest home laying in my own filth with bedsores.
Merry Christmas to all!