Reply #57: I don't care that someone else wrote the goddamn screed [View All]

[truedelphi]

What has ALWAYS bugged me about "It takes a village" is that Hillary was, through her time served as personal attorney to Sam Walton and in her position on the Board of Directors to WalMArt, circa 1986 to 1991, she was one of those who either helped WalMArt destroy the village, or one who stood by and did nothing.

Circa 1986 to 1991, WalMarts were built across the MidWest and many times, the location chosen was a small town environment with many local mom and pop stores. These stores would be driven into bankruptcy by the underselling of product pricing - bu tthen - get this! Once the mom and pops closed up, often WalMart decided to close down the store in that exact location, as it "did not show a "positive positioning" in the retail climate.

So then the people in those locations had nowhere to shop. In addition to no jobs either.

How many kids went to bed worried and sick knowing their parents' stores had closed. or that Mom's job at the wonderful New WalMart was gone.

If you never heard about this, here's one reason -- The news media is beholden to its advertisers.

I know about this because of living in the San Francisco Bay area - an area where "Big BOx stores" are voted down through ballot measures. Because WalMArt is not within the confines of the city of San Francisco, WalMart paid no advertising to the San Francisco Chronicle.

So the SF Chronicle was not beholden to WalMart and ran several exposes on this facet of the corporation. Hillary was not mentioned - she was only the wife of a governor of one of the more obscure (by CA standards) states in the South.