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I'll tell ya, this socialist claptrap over Wal-Mart really rubs me the wrong way. I grew up in a small town in Michigan, and we would have loved to have something like a Wal-Mart. There is a certain kind of tyranny that a small businessman wields when he is the only local supplier of a certain product or service, and when a Wal-Mart opens, the locals are as much glad to give the tyrant his comeuppance as they are to save a few bucks.

Wal-Mart is a lot of things, but it is not upscale and it does not give a lot of service. If a small business can't compete on those advantages then they have no reason to be in business.