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July 31, 2009 08:13 PM UTC

The Steroids Era and Wal-Mart

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  • by: WakeUpWalmart

When we look back on The Steroids Era in baseball, we’re going to see a bunch of players who broke the rules and grew to an unnatural behemoth size, and how the people who were supposed to provide oversight either turned a blind eye or even encouraged it.

Well, if you think about it, wasn’t our economy in sort of a similar Steroids Era?  Real estate prices were pushed to unsustainable levels, Wall Street raked in unhealthy and astronomical profits, and our SUV’s looked like they had a case of elephantitis.

The poster child for the Excess Economy was Wal-Mart, the king of suburbia that built Big Box Supercenters anywhere it could find cheap land, introduced oversize shopping carts for its Canyero-driving customers, bought cheap goods in bulk from China, and was the darling of Wall Street.

Like in MLB, the oversight into Wal-Mart’s unprecedented behavior didn’t exist.  Bush was Bud Selig.  So while Wal-Mart may have broken records, it left an ugly legacy on the American economy by destroying small towns, short-changing workers, and selling out American vendors in favor of China.

I’ve had enough with The Steroids Era, and so that’s why I’m doing some work with Wake Up Wal-Mart this summer.  Like in baseball, it’s time to reform the system and restore American tradition in our economy.  Join us if you’re sick and tired another so-called “record breaker” juicing the system.  

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  1. WalMart provides quality products at good products.  It has definitely been a net gain for the middle class.  It has worked out well for WalMart also.  

    1. Also, studies have shown that towns with Walmart benefit from its presence.  It’s towns with a Walmart next door that get hosed.  The viability of a small town’s economy can be determined by the gradient of the flow of money across city limits:  If it’s mostly outbound, your town is in bad shape, but if it’s inbound, you’re good to go.  Works that way with cute little downtown storefronts as well as with Walmart.

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