[Oe List ...] Wal-Mart and the weapons of mass destruction

Tue Apr 8 16:20:23 EDT 2008

Well, Someone won a Nobel prize for implementing our plan for the villages 
of the world.

Len

At 04:15 PM 4/8/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't think we (ICA/EI) knew a helluva lot about economics.
>
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>From: Marianna Bailey <wmbailey at charter.net>
>To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Sent: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 3:04 pm
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Wal-Mart and the weapons of mass destruction
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>Let's not forget the economic principles that we used in human development 
>projects.Money should circulate 5 times before it leaves a community. When 
>Wal-Mart comes into a town small family owned businesses that have been 
>their for several generations go out of business. The family owned 
>business circulated the money 5 times and use to pay living wages. 
>Wal-Mart pays low wages and the money leaves the community everyday. What 
>we gain short term by low prices does not reflect the long term 
>consequences of our local economy.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:cdhahn at flash.net>Charles or Doris Hahn
>To: <mailto:oe at wedgeblade.net>Order Ecumenical Community
>Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Wal-Mart and the weapons of mass destruction
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>I want to second Randy's comments, and add another concern.  We shop a 
>little at Walmart here in Bloomington and earlier in Bastrop.  The people 
>we see in Walmart are primarily people in well-worn clothes, many are 
>unkempt, i.e. they are people one the lower end of economic hierarchy.  If 
>they have a job, they do not make much, and perhaps they have more than 
>one part-time job.  They can't go to Macy's and it's many 
>equivalents.  Also Walmart has no more imports than Macy's, or Talbots, or 
>Penny's, or Sears, or Target.   I do not see aged, or handicapped, or many 
>minorities working at Macy's, etc.  Enough badmouthing  Walmart!!!
>Charles Hahn
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>From: R Williams <<mailto:rcwmbw at yahoo.com>rcwmbw at yahoo.com>
>To: Order Ecumenical Community <<mailto:oe at wedgeblade.net>oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 8:53:39 AM
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>I am in complete agreement with everything George, Jon, Marshall, et al 
>are saying about Walmart.  But there is one little twinge I have.  In our 
>town of 5,600 people there is a Walmart of course, and I have been in 
>there.  Here's my twinge.  The employees there, regardless of deplorable 
>wages, benefits, working conditions and the rest, because of education, 
>age, disabilities or whatever, likely would not have jobs anywhere 
>else.  What are we to think of them?
>
>Randy
>
>George Holcombe <<mailto:geowanda at earthlink.net>geowanda at earthlink.net> 
>wrote:
>I suppose we're fortunate in Austin, TX, many of our local chains like 
>H.E.B. and Fiesta have better prices on the items that we buy than Wal 
>Mart.  I understand that due to a suit that Wall Mart has withdrawn its 
>claim to have the lowest prices.  Both H.E.B. and Fiesta have far better 
>and fresher produce than Wal Mart.  I wouldn't doubt that because of the 
>fuel increases and the far flung shipping  routes that Wal Mart uses, the 
>locals, who buy local, may have an advantage in their costs and prices for 
>their customers.
>
>George Holcombe
>14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
>Austin, TX 78728
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>On Apr 7, 2008, at 3:08 PM, <mailto:jonzondo at juno.com>jonzondo at juno.com wrote:
>>I have not shopped at WalMart in years.  And what I find amazing is the 
>>number of "aware" persons in my life who have a bundle of excuses for why 
>>they continue to shop at Walmart.  The brainwashing machine surely seems 
>>to work sometimes, eh?
>>
>>My new idea is that for the next person I know who speaks of shopping for 
>>something at WalMart, I will offer to pay the difference if they go to 
>>another store.  I wonder what will happen with that idea...
>>In Balance,   Jon
>>
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>>-- "W. J." <<mailto:synergi at yahoo.com>synergi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>But wait! Wal-Mart is just a good target for our outrage, After all, it's 
>>the world's most powerful delivery system for exploiting a global market 
>>economy which wields the economic weapons of mass destruction.
>>
>>Ah, yes. The tyranny of the economic process. It's coming back to bite 
>>even those of the affluent 15% who believed that the U.S. housing market 
>>would never deflate, and bought in at the top of the speculative bubble. 
>>(For the story in Wiegel's area, see 
>><http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/keymagazine/406ariz-t.html?ei=5087&em=&en=136025ebaea46e85&ex=1207713600&pagewanted=all>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/keymagazine/406ariz-t.html?ei=5087&em=&en=136025ebaea46e85&ex=1207713600&pagewanted=all) 
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