Americans are being terrorized into not celebrating Xmas

[theVOID]

We can go back at it if you like. The people that "need their Walmart jobs to feed their children"also needed the full-time job they could have had before the Walmart came to town. The 1000$ a year they save is a trick, because they lose a lot more than that in local economy. You can try to paint those guys any way you want, but the Walmart economic principles are flawed, unfair, fraudulent and stupid.

They also employ a lot of people in areas where small business have failed on their own. Yeah they're big business and there is always a downside, i just don't think it's as one sided as you.

If you really want to save 10 cents on toilet paper from china, then you obviously don't understand the implications of local economy vs. global economy, and fully deserve a 20-hour-a-week minimum wage job, and you are welcome to use the parking lot to live out of your car.

Someone's a little bitter i sense - have a personal problem with a corporation Pippy?

I think global economy is a far more powerful force for good than the local economy. Trade ties established between corporations and countries forge mutually beneficial situations which in tern lead to interdependency and make conflict too costly, local economies by contrast maintain divisions and economic interdependence. Both are essential but ultimately the global economy is more beneficial for both peace and innovation.

But yeah, feel free to defend the Walton family, they need to stay in Forbes top 5.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet also populate that list, yet they are the easily amongst biggest individual philanthropists the world has seen. They've done more for the species than the equivalent net worth of local business owners combined while providing an equal, if not greater amount of jobs.