Class warfare summed up in a simple joke (with an accompanying cartoon)

Google turned this up. Wonder which sjer started it?

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207533052

 

Did you read the description? No one here writes that poorly. Except maybe YankeeFan.

 

I don't have the time to read stuff people post on the Internet.

 

Wal-Mart employs an army of lawyers, CPAs and lobbyists in an absolute effort to find every loophole and exploit to the maximum possible effect. They are generally shameless in sucking off the public teat as much as possible.

They also use the clout of gigantic buying power to force better deals out of vendors.

Wal-Mart rarely loses, they rarely blink and they have bent over and fucked nearly every municipality and state they do business in.

If they want to build a new store, they simple build what they want and make the local plan and zone commissions change their rules. If they won't do that, they go to the mayor, if the mayor won't budge, they go to the state legislature. And eventually the governor, but rarely get that far. And if they do, they just wait out term limits, support candidates who are friendly to the Wal-Mart way and get them elected, so then they can do what they wanted in the first place.

Most politicians just take it though. Employing the Bobby Knight philosophy of if you're going to get raped, you might as well enjoy it. After all, Wal-Mart does bring jobs to town and the always promise more — a distribution center here, a larger store there.

In the very rare case of towns fighting back, they go to war and say that mayor is costing the city jobs, tax revenue, etc. But, like I said, rare. I'm only aware of one southern town — Ridgeland, Miss. — that told Wal-Mart to go fuck themselves and the mayor not only survived it, but thrived.

It is astonishing to see the number of people willing to defend the Wal-Mart way using some sort of crutch of that's just business or look at the tax they did pay bullshit.

Wal-Mart only gives a fuck about making more money so some dumbass Walton can buy more expensive art and then move to Texas to get out of paying state income tax.

 

Wal-Mart only giving a fuck about making more money is good for the country.

 

Walmart has had an incredibly hard time breaking into both New York City and Chicago -- two cities dominated by democratic politics.

In both cases, the residents in the neighborhoods they sought to locate in wanted the stores -- both for the shopping and for the jobs.

In the meantime, Walmart has ringed Chicago with stores and the City loses sales to the suburbs.

Staten Islanders regularly go to Walmarts in New Jersey.

And, if you don't like all the lawyers and loopholes, then fight for smaller government.

It's only because government has too much power and make so many laws that they are so many ways to get around them.

 

Nine pages on a Goddam cartoon. And not one person has change another person's mind. Well done.

 

No one is going to change anyone's mind. Some people are rich and support government intervention to support the rich. Some people are poor and support government intervention to support the rich. Some people are middle class and slipping fast and even though they don't support government intervention to support the rich, there's not a damn thing they can do about it. Well, except keep their personal boycotts going.

 

Who's "rich" on this board besides maybe Boom?

What's right and what's fair have nothing to do with what is in my own self interest.

 

What does this thread have to do with a cartoon?

 

Depends on your definition of rich, I guess. It seems to me that people were criticizing the teachers in Wisconsin for having salaries of $50,000-$55,000 so I guess they think that's "rich."

 

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