The War Against Poor People

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This came to me today in an e-newsletter called Daily Wealth, which I now have serious doubts about.
It looked good in the beginning, but has turned out to be pretty much advertising to buy one of their reports. Lots of 'teasers' and not much substance.
What's your take on this guy's view of WalMart, poor people, and 'intellectuals'?
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The War Against Poor People
by Dan Ferris
November 04, 2006

Wal-Mart is quite possibly the most democratic institution in existence.

It doesn’t traffic in airy political votes. At Wal-Mart, customers vote with dollars, born of much blood and sweat. That’s a real democracy. That’s power for the people like it exists in few places on earth.

But let’s face it, most people love humanity only from afar and hate the way it smells up close and personal. That’s why so many people love to hate Wal-Mart. With Wal-Mart comes a kind of economic equality no social planner ever has or will create. Wal-Mart makes the promises of the liberal/conservative political axis ring hollow.

You want a revolution that gives people a more dignified standard of living? You got it.
Intellectuals hate real democracy, the democracy of the marketplace. All you need there is money, and most intellectuals don’t like money, because you have to earn it by being useful to another human being. When votes are dollars, they count as much to the voter as the voted. Because dollar votes cost the voter something, they are placed with care. Dollars are scarcer for Wal-Mart’s core customer than for most people reading an investment letter.
http://www.dailywealth.com/archive/2006/nov/2006_nov_04.asp?printdoc=print

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1. Oh goody!

Here's a flash: dollars are not democratic - you don't vote with dollars - you buy goods and services with them.

When corporations like Walmart become mere individual businesses by renouncing their corporate protection and expose their shareholders to liability, instead of hiding behind the State for phony protection, I'll take this drivel seriously.

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2. Wish I could find an e-mail address for the author.

I'd give him an earful.

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3. Poor People

Poor People

Poor people cry
poor people die
They are so poor
I wonder why

Everytime I see one
I try not to run
I just look, I just stare
Their bodies are bare
I really do care

Everytime I pass one
I feel a funny way
As if I were to say
WHY ARE YOU SO POOR?