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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (451294)	1/27/2009 6:13:08 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 1576919

Have you forgotten that my wife is a pharmacist? Pharmacists in retail are generally treated like well-paid convenience store clerks. Not much room for professionalism. And it's all because of the Walgreens and the CVS's that have displaced traditional local pharmacies. All true. So now what? Break up Walgreens and CVS? No clue, I was just commenting on if we were better or worse off with giant corporation, rather than individual business owners controlling the marketplace. It's a mixed bag. Unionize the pharmacists? Yeah right, no one is going to have any sympathy for professionals making as much money as pharmacists do. You don't need 'sympathy' to form a union. I probably sound like I'm whining, but hey, I'm not going to fall into the anti-corporation trap and and pretend that things were necessarily better back when we had fewer big box marts and store chains. In fact, I think we are indeed better off with Walgreens and CVS, but there are always consequences of killing off small business, and the better we deal with them, the better off we'll all be as a society. Think of the options your wife would have had in the old days. With 1000's of independent owners, she could have taken a job with any of them, they had to compete for her services. Now she's down to a couple of choices... which probably collude on pay scale and benefits. She could have saved to buy her own business, or started a new one. Now that's almost impossible... the big guys will stomp on you like a piss ant. I guess the reason I feel the way I do is that I instinctively believe we are better off with people who live in their community running the businesses in their community. Rather than some New York financial managers answering to stock holders. How do we get back to an "ownership society"? No clue.

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