This comment makes an interesting point.  Walmart is crying about their customers tax refunds to provide money for their customers to spend.  Hope those customer get those refunds and spend the money somewhere else.

The Execs would never get to the check out line.  They would be too busy in the management office cutting employees hours and jobs to meet cost quotas...and they certainly wouldn't buy Walmart junk for their own families.

Actually, they care a lot about their "stock value", as that is the basis for their multibillion dollar net worth.  The ONLY way to get to a billionaire is through his/her brokerage account.

"Profits" were once considered the surplus cash after deduction of all costs of production. Walmart has made a science of finding surplus cash by exploiting the means of production. Like the others on this thread, I won't intentionally exploit my fellow man (and woman) by shopping at the 21st century flea market.    ...more

I agree, albeit I don't see the Federal Government as the "Power" in this instance.  The Fed is really a group of private companies and citizens of various nations that own a vast majority of the world's money. Although I am no expert in the monetary markets, what I read indicates that the super wealthy wield all the p...more

George Orwell, alias L. Ron Hubbard, captured this moment long before 1984.  Mind control definitely has its perks in modern corporate/medical workplace. Just imagine how many employees (and patients?) will be "cured" in the Florida Dynamic Health Services Clinic.  Wonder if it got tax exempt status....?

The remind you of the Taliban because they are America's version of the Taliban.  Both sects are cemented in the interpretation of ancient texts that were written before the wheel was invented.  And the always get it wrong.  Always.

Leave it to the Christian right to try and live their meaningless lives in a world without humanity.  Will these American Taliban radicals ever, I mean EVER, get the heads out the **** and try to imagine a world that is not based on the misinterpretations of 2000 year old stories by modern day charlatans and shopping c...more

This is my rifle.  This is my gun.  My gun was so small, I bought a bigger rifle....