TCS - (via Dissecting Leftism):
"Between 1990 and 2002 more than 174 million people escaped poverty in China, about 1.2 million per month. With an estimated $23 billion in Chinese exports in 2005 (out of a total of $713 billion in manufacturing exports), Wal-Mart might well be single-handedly responsible for bringing about 38,000 people out of poverty in China each month, about 460,000 per year. There are estimates that 70 percent of Wal-Mart's products are made in China. One writer vividly suggests that "One way to think of Wal-Mart is as a vast pipeline that gives non-U.S. companies direct access to the American market."
Even without considering the $263 billion in consumer savings that Wal-Mart provides for low-income Americans, or the millions lifted out of poverty by Wal-Mart in other developing nations, it is unlikely that there is any single organization on the planet that alleviates poverty so effectively for so many people. Moreover, insofar as China's rapid manufacturing growth has been associated with a decline in its status as a global arms dealer, Wal-Mart has also done more than its share in contributing to global peace."
Yet the Dems OPPOSE Wal-Mart. WHY?!?! Because most have never been in one, that's why. WHY HAVEN'T THEY BEEN IN ONE?! Because according the the Left, they're "too smart to shop in Wal-Mart." Corrollary: Wal-Mart is only for people who are too dumb to know were they really should shop."
My message to the Left: if you don't like Wal-Mart then don't shop there. But don't stop people who do like shopping there from shopping there; just mind your own business. Nobody is forced to shop in Wal-Mart or eat a McDonald's. So stop putting down these two hugely popular companies.
The Left's proclivity for this prescriptiveness, for a nanny-state, is another affinity they have with the jihadists. Both oppose free individuals freely deciding for themselves what to spend their own money on and where. Both oppose the free marketplace of goods and ideas. One major reason they oppose individual freedom and free marketplaces is that they know that the ideas which they hold so dear - Leftism and jihadism - can't survive the competiton.
More on Wal-Mart Derangement Syndrome here.
My message to the Left: if you don't like Wal-Mart then don't shop there. But don't stop people who do like shopping there from shopping there; just mind your own business. Nobody is forced to shop in Wal-Mart or eat a McDonald's. So stop putting down these two hugely popular companies.
The Left's proclivity for this prescriptiveness, for a nanny-state, is another affinity they have with the jihadists. Both oppose free individuals freely deciding for themselves what to spend their own money on and where. Both oppose the free marketplace of goods and ideas. One major reason they oppose individual freedom and free marketplaces is that they know that the ideas which they hold so dear - Leftism and jihadism - can't survive the competiton.
More on Wal-Mart Derangement Syndrome here.
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