America absolutely loves Wal-Mart. 100 million customers visit Wal-Mart
every single week in this country. But is Wal-Mart good for America?
That is a question that most people never stop and ask. Most of us love
shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap
merchandise, but the truth is that Wal-Mart is destroying America in a
lot of ways. As you will see below, Wal-Mart has destroyed tens of
thousands of small businesses and countless manufacturing jobs over the
past couple of decades. Wal-Mart has become a gigantic retail behemoth
that sells five times more stuff than any other retailer in the United
States.
Unfortunately, about 85 percent of all the stuff sold at Wal-Mart is
made overseas. What that is costing the U.S. economy in terms of lost
jobs and lost revenue is incalculable. But Wal-Mart is a perfect
example of where our economic system is headed. Our economy is becoming
completely and totally dominated by highly centralized monolithic
predator corporations that ruthlessly crush all competition and that
will stoop to just about anything in order to cut costs.

In the future, will we all be working for gigantic communal entities
that funnel all of the wealth and economic rewards to a very tiny elite?
That sounds very much like how communist China works, and red-blooded
Americans should want no part of that. America is supposed to be about
free enterprise and competition and working together to build up this
country, and Wal-Mart is destroying all of that.
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Barbara J Llorente, 71 Cerritos Ave San Francisco, CA 94127.