Much like a squamous cell growth will progress into sarcoma, the problem with the expansion of Wal-Mart isn’t its low prices. The problem with Wal-Mart is that Wal-Mart is on the US corporate welfare dole. Taxpayer subsidies are the reason Wal-Mart is building SuperCenters everywhere while still offering us those low, low price tags we all love so darned much. Feel the progress yet?

In spite of the fact that Wal-Mart appears to offer contributions to a community, such as Sam’s Club, employment for the retired, welfare-to-work, and developmentally disabled employee, that doesn’t change the fact that these charitable gestures result in HUGE corporate tax breaks.

Wal-Mart’s massive profit margin allows them to offer low, low prices earned off of the sweat of an immense group of disenfranchised, non-union workers who are paid low, low wages and worked just enough low, low hours to not qualify for health insurance, ever.

One result of Wal-Mart’s “passing the savings on to you” employer policies is that a vast many of Wal-Mart’s employees are eligible for Medicare, food stamps, welfare, and earned income tax credits. In fact, the annual amount of tax money spent to subsidize the low, low wages of every single Wal-Mart retail employee is estimated to be as high as $14,000 each, and no less than $6,000.

With all those hidden taxpayer subsidies underwriting the Supersizing of Wal-Mart, doesn’t it seem like those low, low prices are climbing? I’m seeing the growth; where’s the progress?

The low, low tactics don’t stop there, friends and neighbors, Washington DC researchers, JobsFirst, has compiled documents that account for over one billion dollars in direct US government subsidies given to Wal-Mart since 1980, which doesn’t take into account the taxpayer funds spent on employee welfare subsidies. Evidently, Wal-Mart is the largest US corporate beneficiary of US government grants, tax waivers, abatements, exemptions, easements, bonds, sales tax incentives, employee training allotments, infrastructure, access roads, utilities, etc. Why, there’s an entire eight-lane freeway out in Oklahoma that dead ends at a Wal-Mart distribution center. No potholes in it either. Just try to get the government to fix the potholes on your street.

Since a great many of my neighbors are Republicans, I won’t even attempt to sway you with liberal-media borne tales of Wal-Mart’s profiteering on the backs of child laborers in China, or what a threat China is becoming to the American economy, or how all of our jobs are being outsourced via operations similar to Wal Mart’s. We’ll worry about the sociopolitical economic concerns of ruinous foreign and domestic policies, later.

For now, it’s time to address our government’s dirty dealing corporate welfare subsidy cards to Wal-Mart cons so they can play low,low price Monty with the easily bamboozled American shills, er…taxpayers. When that happens, and the State is sponsoring it, it’s not an economic system based on free-market capital anymore, it’s state-sponsored monopocapitalism, or, more simply put, fascism. It’s a cancer. Comprende?

I didn’t think so.

Listen, do y’all think you’ll be rapturing along soon or waking the heck up or at least try reading a different book for once? I’m darned tired of hearing you pro-death-penalty-pro-interfering-with-other-peoples’-lives-pro-lifers using Jesus as a some sort of Morality– brand-name logo icon to defend the rightness of your right-wing righteousness, the likes of which is apparently comprised of some pretty god darned unchristian works: elitism, war, depleted uranium, envy, sloth, greed, voting to eliminate social programs for the poor while simultaneously blathering on about your right to purchase cheap plastic garbage from a cracked back megasuper sto rich on welfare!

Class dismissed, retardos. Like, amen, or whatever.

I left the US, and got out of the dollar, after El Idioto was allowed to steal his second term.
Best move I ever made.

I actually still try to buy some American goods. Mostly from my pals in the outdoor sporting goods industry. Most of those guys are old now and the younger ones have already shipped out so that’s nearly over too. America is history. Another fallen Empire due to greed and ignorance.

The American taxpayers pay $9 billion in HIDDEN TAXES jus to clean the fish out of ballast tanks of ships.

If the American consumer keeps spending George Washington to a foreign land for so-call cheap items….he can’t help the American people being stuck in a foreign bank.

America was NOT like tis before Wal*Mart.