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Wal-Mart: Our shoppers are 'running out of money'

Have you ever been to WalMart on the 1st or 15th? It's a d*mned madhouse.
 
What's so special about the 1st of 15th? They have a sale or something?

I know this will result in a slew of insults for my ideological stand point, but....

those are the days the welfare/SSI checks are received/deposited/cashed. Also, the days food stamp cards are re-upped.
 
I know this will result in a slew of insults for my ideological stand point, but....

those are the days the welfare/SSI checks are received/deposited/cashed. Also, the days food stamp cards are re-upped.

lol not surprised at all.
 
I haven't shopped at Walmart in over a year. Ha, ha......
Walmart and McDonalds...........dirtbag companies.
 
Does anyone else find it funny that people are complaining so much about rising gas prices? How can you expect the price of a FINITE resource to remain the same forever? The answer? You can't. I thought conservatives were free market types, understanding of supply and demand. When supply goes down and demand remains the same the price will go up. We might be able to fenagle our way through a few more years with prices remaining artificially low because of deals cut by the government, or by taking over oil rich countries, but it's not gonna last forever.
 
Does anyone else find it funny that people are complaining so much about rising gas prices? How can you expect the price of a FINITE resource to remain the same forever? The answer? You can't. I thought conservatives were free market types, understanding of supply and demand. When supply goes down and demand remains the same the price will go up. We might be able to fenagle our way through a few more years with prices remaining artificially low because of deals cut by the government, or by taking over oil rich countries, but it's not gonna last forever.

Psst, it's not about gas prices. It's about the "FACT" that everything Obama does is evil. Because he wasn't born here (even though he was, and it's been proven).
 
but we elected him to fix it last i checked, he better wipe that "solace" off his face and get busy
tick tick tick


I guess the idea of alternative energy doesn't sound so unimportant now does it?
 
but we elected him to fix it last i checked, he better wipe that "solace" off his face and get busy
tick tick tick

Really? You didn't vote for him so quit telling me why I elected him. Go hang out with McCain and Palin and talk about who is more maverick, rogue, and outsiderish.
 
Walmart has two reasons to pay attention.

One years ago Walmart started doing massive amounts of business with China to give us cheap goods to buy, and in the process over the years put a great number of businesses out of business.

Now we have fewer good paying jobs for for people to earn a living and buy things from Walmart because they are on public assistance or just have a lower paying job.

So it's been a tow edge sword.

In order to make things affordable they killed their own business,and didn't even know it.

I saw it coming years ago but like so many times no one was listening.
 
Is it a bad sign when Americans are beginning to not have money even for the cheap Chinese knockoff crap Wal-Mart sells?

Wal-mart thrives in a bad economy because they gain customers who wouldn't normally shop there. When they start losing business we're really in big trouble unless it's because things are getting better. I think we all know that's not the case.
 
I know this will result in a slew of insults for my ideological stand point, but....

those are the days the welfare/SSI checks are received/deposited/cashed. Also, the days food stamp cards are re-upped.

Yea, that's why I don't understand the liberal hate for Wal-mart. Wal-mart makes money stretch farther for low income people and those on government subsidies.
 
Yea, that's why I don't understand the liberal hate for Wal-mart. Wal-mart makes money stretch farther for low income people and those on government subsidies.

Liberal hate for Walmart? I am so excited for you to back that statement up.
 
Does anyone else find it funny that people are complaining so much about rising gas prices? How can you expect the price of a FINITE resource to remain the same forever? The answer? You can't. I thought conservatives were free market types, understanding of supply and demand. When supply goes down and demand remains the same the price will go up. We might be able to fenagle our way through a few more years with prices remaining artificially low because of deals cut by the government, or by taking over oil rich countries, but it's not gonna last forever.

We'll be running out any day now. I've been hearing that for fifty years. Oh well, we can convert our cars to natural gas if the environmental wack jobs would get out of the way.
Peak Oil Debunked: 404. 100 YEARS OF NATURAL GAS
 
We'll be running out any day now. I've been hearing that for fifty years. Oh well, we can convert our cars to natural gas if the environmental wack jobs would get out of the way.
Peak Oil Debunked: 404. 100 YEARS OF NATURAL GAS

Did you really just cite peakoildebunked.blogspot.com in a ****ing debate?

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Granted, it is better than most who would just say it and not cite a source at all.
 
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I guess the idea of alternative energy doesn't sound so unimportant now does it?

I guess the idea of drilling in AWYR doesn't sound so bad now.
 
I guess the idea of drilling in AWYR doesn't sound so bad now.

What is AWYR? Drilling in ANWR might get some extra oil but it won't affect prices or supply very much. It would be wiser to hold onto it for future needs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36121239/ns/business-oil_and_energy/

*Edit:

I figured this MSNBC article would be about how drilling for oil would barely affect the world's supply but rather it was about how long it may take before drilling begins (which is true but unimportant since even when drilling begins gas prices will not change). Here is a better source:

The problem is this: While increased oil and gas drilling in the United States may create good-paying jobs, reduce reliance on foreign oil and lower the trade deficit, it will have hardly any impact on gas and oil prices.

That's because the amount of extra oil that could be produced from more drilling in this country is tiny compared to what the world consumes.

Plus, any extra oil the country did produce would likely be quickly offset by a cut in OPEC production.

"This drill drill drill thing is tired," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, which calculates gas prices for the motorist organization AAA. "It's a simplistic way of looking for a solution that doesn't exist."
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Did you really just cite peakoildebunked.blogspot.com in a ****ing debate?

*Edit to add:

Granted, it is better than most who would just say it and not cite a source at all.
sorry,
There are plenty of other links, that was just top of the list.

this is the second one. look legit

RIGZONE - US Has Almost 100-Year Supply of Natural Gas

The amount of natural gas available for production in the United States has soared 58% in the past four years, driven by a drilling boom and the discovery of huge new gas fields in Texas, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, a new study says.
The report, due to be released Thursday by the nonprofit Potential Gas Committee, concludes the U.S. has more than 2,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas still in the ground, or nearly a century's worth of production at current rates. That's a 35.4% jump over the committee's last estimate, in 2007, of 1,532 trillion cubic feet, the biggest increase in the committee's 44-year history.
 
What is AWYR? Drilling in ANWR might get some extra oil but it won't affect prices or supply very much. It would be wiser to hold onto it for future needs.

More offshore drilling won

*Edit:

I figured this MSNBC article would be about how drilling for oil would barely affect the world's supply but rather it was about how long it may take before drilling begins (which is true but unimportant since even when drilling begins gas prices will not change). Here is a better source:

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Liberal answer is always, it won't help because we won't see a drop of oil for 10 yrs.They've been saying that crap for more than 10 yrs.

We can give Brazil 2 billion dollars to drill in the gulf and tell them we'll be their best customer, but we won't open up ANWR. Makes no sense to me.
 
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