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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Maybe I'm wrong in the way I think , Marie; but, I see the coming mess making 
us even more dependent on the huge corporate giants like Walmart, as well as 
the gov't.  Where gigantic corporations and government summate into 
'corporatism', 'fascism', 'liberalized socialism', whatever the current 
synonym.

A behomoth likw Walmart has more power than most countries on earth, and 
could easily move to singapore (with its proits and taxes).  As easily as 
Barney Frank rolled over for Fannie Mae, and Chris Dodd was bought by 
Countryside, the non committe chairman wouldn't have a chance trying to stand 
up to such power.  This is another of the big problems with centralization.

p.s. I don't have a problem with Walmart as a store, as long as that is what 
a community really wants; not just what it has to accept to survive ...bobford


--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Short-term versus long-term
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:16 PM
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:03 PM, 
> <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
> > No, that's why I don't buy food from China. 
> Once of the reasons.  But the
> > fellow who has trout ponds 40 miles from here and
> sells (or should be able to)
> > to me directly, why should he be under the same
> regulations as WalMart??
> 
> I agree completely. The answer, of course, is that WalMart
> doesn't
> want the competition. I'm hopeful that if things get
> tough enough --
> and I, like most people here, have every reason to think
> that they
> will -- that small businesses -- can shed the regulations
> that are
> solely intended to drive them out of business. Even the
> Russians
> allowed peasants to sell from their small plots, for
> heaven's sake.
> 
> Marie
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