Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]blah, blah blah No mention of more jobs created, no mention of price gouging by the local store owners just rehashed BS from dan rather and the like in a nice neat P.C. image of the big bad company. Please Nathan don't get the impression that all of us Americans believe the spew from 60 minutes and dan rather. The jobs created by Walmart and the economic growth is rarely mentioned. Just some bleeding heart story how nobody goes down town to mr. zifles to buy a 30 dollar hammer anymore and talk about whos pig is bigger. And of course these rural folk are too stupid to realize that if they don't support the WalMart it will go out of business, and they wouldn't want that? My brother lives in rural America and they drive out of their way to buy goods at lower cost. Imagine that, the free enterprise system at work where intelligent folk can decide where and when to spend their hard earned cash. Why doesn't my idiot brother listen to the bleeding hearts spin on 60 minutes? Doesn't he realize he should pay twice the price so he can preserve the local color? Jeez, next thing ya know he'll be buying stuff off eb_y! Call dan rather and tell'em to drive his Mercedes up here to do a story on how the internet killed small town America. Next thing ya know mr ziffle will be running a server in his back room selling goods and services to the world....the nerve. After all these bleeding hearts want to take pics of the 'real' small town America with their 2 thousand dollar Leicas. Thank god these bleeding hearts aren't deciding what small town America will be, the residents are. The big bad walmart story paints a 'nice' P.C. image, but when you scratch the surface it smells real funny. On my way to Walmart...Doug This ones for the birds http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=442115 - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Aram Langhans Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:25 PM To: wajsman@webshuttle.ch; leica users group Subject: [Leica] Proper Peanut butter?? Oh, my goodness, Nathan. Here in the US of A it is hard to find that great peanut butter made of just peanuts and salt. Adam's Old Fashion is the BEST peanut butter I have ever tasted. Mix it up, put it in the refrigerator and enjoy. After years of Skippy and Jiff garbage it is great to taste peanuts rather than sugar and who knows what else. Now that we have been eating Adams, I hate going back to that other stuff. It is like spreading sweet lard on bread. WalMart has messed up so many rural American towns it isn't funny. They build a large WalMart in every town, even though they are only 15 miles apart separated by miles of farmland. There is no way that the local population can support so many stores. Then, after they have driven the local businesses out of business, they close all but one of the stores and leave the other one open. They killed the other towns. I have seen it done just down the road from where I use to live, and I have seen reports on news programs like 20/20 or 60 minutes that documnets this. They may be fine in the large cities, but they are killing rural America. I didn't realize they were in Europe. They are the last place I would ever shop. Aram >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:09:54 +0100 >From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> >Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW week 3: US imperialism in Germany >Message-ID: <3C4BBEC2.CDB917D7@webshuttle.ch> >References: >Last weekend we went shopping to Singen, a town just on the other side >of the Swiss-German border. This time we went to a huge WalMart there, >and my wife was in heaven, being able to stock up on a lot of local >staples but also hard-to-find American items (such as proper peanut >butter rather than the organic stuff with oil on top commonly found >here). The German retail sector can surely use the kind of competition a >WalMart provides. Having said that, I hate being inside such places, so >I hung around outside with my Leica: This message is made of 100% recycled electrons. No new atoms were destroyed in making it. Aram Langhans Science Teacher, Naches High School P. O. Box 159/101 W. 5th. St. Naches, WA 98937 "Science Rules" - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html