You don't get to deprive someone of their property just because you feel they have plenty of it. And this is just ONE instance where they could have let irrational emotion rule over logic and law...what if Wal-Mart made a habit of always doing what "felt good"? It'd never have become a mega-chain...it would be a po-dunk herbal store run by some damned dirty hippies!

In this ONE instance, I agree...it wouldn't have hurt Wal-Mart too badly, it would have made great PR, and might even have created enough goodwill to generate sales that completely covered their loss. Or not.

But nobody should get to decide what Wal-Mart does with Wal-Mart's money besides Wal-Mart, as long as they're within the law. Which they were.

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Some people might say cutting employee benefits by 40 cents is also greedy and heartless. You disagree?

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Greedy and heartless? No. Sounds Liberalistic and Democratic. Rob the majority to give to the minority! Here comes Darth Robin Hood!

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Declaration of Independence
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman

Wow, I can’t believe the whole episode is online. Great link.

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"If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you may be sure that whatever their motives, love for man is not one of them." - Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

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New Law Trashes Genetic Science

Name a show and I can find it for you. Just PM me.

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"It is the Right of the People to alter or abolish the Government"
Declaration of Independence
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
Thomas Jefferson
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman