[stentorian conservative]

What a moot post. Have you nothing more intelligent to contribute aside from some text speak?

I have decided to take my money to local small businesses for MY OWN reasons. Simply because the majority of you disagree will not convince me that buying loads of low-quality crap NOW will somehow be better than saving and buying higher quality products from local merchants. I was taught that spending MY money should always be conscious effort. I CHOOSE to know where my money is going and if that means helping to fund "Pa's" kids college education, more the better.

Incidentally, I don't point crooked fingers and make nasty insinuations about someone's intelligence because they choose to shop at a retailer whose business practices, while incredibly successful, I PERSONALLY find distasteful.

But then again, I probably understand better than most the ability to exercise said rights. My husband will get a chuckle out of the fact that he goes to Afghanistan leaving a rather conservative wife to return home to a tree hugging, economically inept isolationist. It's gratifying to see Americans exercising the rights he and his Brethren provide you... AND ME!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[Gabz]

I have decided to take my money to local small businesses for MY OWN reasons.

I do as well, however, many of those same local small businesses have SENT me to WalMart for different items and WalMart employees have SENT me to the local small businesses for other items.

I have nothign against people that don't like WalMart, there are lots of chain stores I don't like -- what I dislike is disinformation bordering on downright falsehoods that many of them bandy about about WalMart, while ignoring the fact that the retailers they promote are doing the esxact same thing.

But that is the price of the freedom your husband is fighting for.

God Bless him and you.