Wal-Mart Blues
Okay, so I'm writing about Wal-Mart again this week. I can't believe how much I've written about and supported this store. Some people think I have stock in Wal-Mart or something. If I did, would I be so bold about supporting them?
No, the truth is simpler than that. I'm a CHEAP BASTARD. Wal-Mart goes to the trouble of giving jobs to Asian toddlers to produce goods that I can buy at a fraction of the cost of an American made product. I know....globalization is evil. Wal-Mart is evil. They're the phantom menace. I know they're accelerating our decline as a superpower. I imagine some huge rapidly expanding open air bazaar which got its cheap goods made from slaves and barbarians called Wal-Maximus is probably the true reason the Roman Empire fell. But whatever...
If I can buy a case of soda for $3.98, I'll risk the death of the republic.
Mission Village has sat vacant for like 9 years. It's an old rotting strip mall. Boarded up buildings. Fairfield needs this Wal-Mart. The area is surrounded by duplexes, condos, apartments and single family homes. There's an old K-Mart across the street and a high school down the street. Fairfield needs this shot in the arm. And it will bring in up to a million dollars a year in tax revenue.
It's a no brainer.
No, the truth is simpler than that. I'm a CHEAP BASTARD. Wal-Mart goes to the trouble of giving jobs to Asian toddlers to produce goods that I can buy at a fraction of the cost of an American made product. I know....globalization is evil. Wal-Mart is evil. They're the phantom menace. I know they're accelerating our decline as a superpower. I imagine some huge rapidly expanding open air bazaar which got its cheap goods made from slaves and barbarians called Wal-Maximus is probably the true reason the Roman Empire fell. But whatever...
If I can buy a case of soda for $3.98, I'll risk the death of the republic.
Mission Village has sat vacant for like 9 years. It's an old rotting strip mall. Boarded up buildings. Fairfield needs this Wal-Mart. The area is surrounded by duplexes, condos, apartments and single family homes. There's an old K-Mart across the street and a high school down the street. Fairfield needs this shot in the arm. And it will bring in up to a million dollars a year in tax revenue.
It's a no brainer.
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