A picture Wal Mart wishes was not on the net.

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27. The relationship with poverty is BOTH cause and effect

It is cause because Wal*Mart has put so many other retailers out of business, leaving people to have nothing but minimum wage jobs. It is the cause of poverty because, far from the Wal*Mart of the 1980s that championed "Made in America", the modern Wal*Mart sells virtually nothing made in America other than perhaps a few paper products.

But it is also effect. Wal*Mart is not the only force that has driven Americans into poverty or near poverty. And when you are looking at your last 20 dollars, you have to buy the cheapest stuff you can get by with. The only principle that matters at that point is staying alive and keeping the family together. So people go to Wal*Mart because the have to.

it is the ultimate truly vicious cycle.