SLOWPOKE TOON: Krap-Mart's Big Box of Poverty

[Hissyspit]

DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/15/1314040/-Cartoon-Big-box-o-poverty

[whathehell]

1. LOL...Jen Sorensen is the best! n/t

[daleanime]

2. hurts too much to laugh...

[NealK]

3. K&R

[LynneSin]

4. There are Main Streets USA across this country that have been destroyed by Wal-Mart

When I grew up your local town usually had a booming downtown business. Maybe a 5 & 10, maybe a Pharmacy, perhaps a Hardware store and usually a few restaurants, bars and a movie theater to boost.

Now across the country these Main Streets are ghost towns as these businesses are shuttered because they can no longer compete against the Wal-Marts and other superstore giants. These Wal-marts have shut down family run businesses that brought decent incomes to family in favor of creating a lower middle class now reliant on the government for basic necessities. And in place of those businesses you'll find things like Pay-Day loan stores, Car Title Loans or Rent-to-Own Furniture places - business meant to take the already struggling family and make them even more poor.

Shame.

[AngryDem001]

5. USA! USA! USA!

While it's making regular folks poorer, it's making the executives RICHER! Don't you think that is something worth celebrating? Every time a mom and pop shop goes under, a Wal-Mart executive gets a BMW. It's so beautiful......