Reply #12: I think walmart is at the heart of it all

[angrycarpenter]

They have turned consumerism into a religion. They have convinced people to shop when they feel sad or bored. I actually went into a walmart this weekend. I had not been in 10 months. I looked in peoples baskets as they went by. I estimate that 90% of what I saw was useless junk. Even the food was junk. pre-sweetened processed artificial crap. Is this what we traded our freedom for? A credit card fueled departure from sanity?

A trip to walmart gives the impression that the economy is booming. The people who run walmart cannot possibly care about the damage they have knowingly done to us as a country. And yet even here people will defend their right to squeeze the country dry.