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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 07:20 PM
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WalMart Commercial shown on "Countdown" a few minutes ago
...featuring this grinning "actor" that tells us how he BOUGHT A HOUSE while on "active duty" in the military (no branch specified), and how he owes this all to WalMart, where he's worked for 8 years.

Am I the only cynical bastard among us who QUESTIONS THIS ridiculous bullshit?

I'd like to SEE the kind of house a WalMart worker in the military can AFFORD.
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NorCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 07:22 PM
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1. One in Baghdad, perhaps? n/t
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 07:23 PM
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2. Well, a nice house....

The problem is, he probably didn't buy it. He probably borrowed it. With no money down, and 30 years hard labor or they take it away.

Helps to have some perspective.

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nosmokes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 07:27 PM
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4. i like the one that features the woman wal-mat employee
who had cancer and is extolling the virtues of walmart's benefits. manages it with a straight face. too.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 07:26 PM
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3. Or, perhaps he used that dastardly liberal...
... GI Bill to buy one with no money down....
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 07:44 PM
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5. I watched a couple of minutes of Countdown...
I pulled the plug about halfway through the first segment of BS about some idiot who jumped off one of the upper balconies in a stadium during a baseball game.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 09:36 PM
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6. Sounds like a zero down mortgage with interest payments only
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 10:40 PM
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7. I saw a Vomit commercial the other day talking about how someone
worked at Walmart & got help when they were very sick. A woman this time. Don't know if the commercial originated in Canada. But aren't they cutting back hours of employees so that they don't have to pay health care?

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