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To: koan who wrote (755070)	11/27/2013 7:49:59 PM
From: jlallen	4 Recommendations Recommended By d[-_-]b i-node steve harris Tenchusatsu Respond to of 1579842

I have a confession to make about Walmart: it has never been where I prefer to shop. I believe I have been in a Walmart store three times in 46 years. But, I will make a point to buy something from their website for Christmas. Walmart is one of the greatest American success stories in history, it is the quintessential American dream: one man from a small town worked his hands to the bone and gave the people what they want: low prices. For years, Walmart--not Target, not Nordtsrom, nor Macy's--has been under attack by collectivists. To watch what Ayn Rand accurately called "looters"--these union extortionists like Andy Stern--pay people to picket in an effort to stop other people from shopping at Walmart simply sickens me. The SEIU, the extortionist group who leads a lot of efforts like this, is run by people who make huge money by quite literally building nothing and standing on the backs of people who are often forced to hand over percentages of their paychecks to the unionist gaggle of takers in union headquarters. Union heads leach onto the paychecks of people who are working what are (and in a healthy economy should be) entry-level jobs and the SEIU does everything they can to make those low-wage jobs permanent because the extortionists at the SEIU make more money for every person who they can pack into low wage jobs. Walmart isn't where I like to shop, but this Christmas they will get some of my business because I stand with the free will over force and invention over coercion. -TH for PR.

To: koan who wrote (755070)	11/27/2013 8:24:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579842

Koan, And the fact of the matter is many poor people in red states could be getting needed health insurance and they won't because the red govs wont accept it. And many middle class people in blue states such as California found that their health insurance policies, the ones that Obama promised that they could keep if they liked, would be cancelled. Guess what? These people will still vote Democrat. Why? Because they've been conditioned to believe that, as bad as the Democrats are, the Republicans would be worse. Same thing probably happens in red states. Lot of poor conservatives are on the dole and would have their benefits taken away if it were up to the GOP. Yet they would still vote Republican because they believe that Democrats are worse. This is why the "red state vs. blue state" meme is totally bogus. Tenchusatsu