WalMart is doing exactly what OUR politicians have given them permission to do.

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16. Walmart and others have been undermining the economy for some time.

They created the advantages they now exploit by bending the system. Their management is not as blameless or innocent as the title line of this thread suggests. As has been made very clear in the recent exposure of their bribery practices they are aggressively competitive and will create any advantage they feel they need.

If you have ever fought against one coming to your town you know the truth of this. May their management at all levels find themselves in irons awaiting judgement for the rape and pillage of main street America. They murdered many small towns along the interstates and many ordinary local stores.

The legislators who helped them at federal and state levels, along with "others" in government did so due to the same influences which were so visible in the election: greed and raw money. It is an interlocking and seemingly symbiotic arrangement.