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Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« on: 24-01-2011, 17:01:48 »
News Update:

Today I saw an article which (once again) brought mixed emotion, a mixture of anger, disgust, and uneasyness...

We all know the world has become a complete battle of greed, however, the idea that a corporate entireprise as big as Wal-Mart and other stores would consider destroying a national historic landmark just to increase their already enourmous profit. I find that rather disgusting, the lack of respect and honor for ones country, just to fill one's own pocket.

Anyways - this is about a Civil War site in Virginia where Wal-Mart wants to establish yet another building in their already over-whelming and dominating store chains.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41221369/ns/business-us_business/?gt1=43001

Let me know what you think.

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #1 on: 24-01-2011, 17:01:52 »
I agree with you on this oddball

Sites like these are important to remind of us of our mistake.
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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #2 on: 24-01-2011, 17:01:35 »
I agree with you on this oddball

Sites like these are important to remind of us of our mistake.
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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #3 on: 24-01-2011, 17:01:23 »
Unless an overwhelming amount of people come together to prevent this construction, I don't see how legally Wal-Mart wont be able to build at the site.

While it is sad, the truth of the matter is, hundreds of historical sights get destroyed every year by modern construction, in-fact numbers of Civil War battlefields are now covered by roads and highways, residential zoning or even industry.

A hundred years from now I'd expect only that stone to remain in place, and when you look across the field there will be a new city of stores.

This battle seems lost before it began, sad but true.

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #4 on: 24-01-2011, 18:01:14 »
Um, its not on the site, its outside the park limits by quite some distance.  I don't see the problem.  Unless they are literally building in the forest over the bones of soldiers, I don't see what's wrong here.

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #5 on: 24-01-2011, 18:01:34 »
Um, its not on the site, its outside the park limits by quite some distance.  I don't see the problem.  Unless they are literally building in the forest over the bones of soldiers, I don't see what's wrong here.

Yeah I read this yesterday off a link windows live gave me.  I was shocked and outraged.....Until I noticed that yeah it is just being built close by.  Big whoop.
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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #6 on: 24-01-2011, 18:01:20 »
A bit like that thing they wanted to build 4 city blocks away from that other site then. What happened with that anyway?

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #7 on: 24-01-2011, 19:01:50 »
this is just like the discussion about the mosque close to ground zero.

totaly bullshit

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #8 on: 24-01-2011, 19:01:38 »
More informative
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08222008/404923/

Its a super Wal-mart Supercenter center.
For a community of less than 35,000, no point, but then there is the tourist; 170,000 annually.

What the historians worry about.


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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #9 on: 24-01-2011, 19:01:24 »
things like this would be forgotten after like 1000 years anyway... you can't preserve everything, the earth would be filled with historical sites. But I do think it is a respect to the soldiers not to build anything on the battlefield unless necessary.

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #10 on: 24-01-2011, 19:01:51 »
Um, its not on the site, its outside the park limits by quite some distance.  I don't see the problem.  Unless they are literally building in the forest over the bones of soldiers, I don't see what's wrong here.

This.

It must have been mentioned 5 times in the article. It's a mile away from the entrance at least. I can see many reasons to fight the Walmart, but not this one. Its most definitley a local issue and if they do not want it, they should be able to stop it. Unfortunatly, the ground work was already laid, they are asking to build in a location already properly zoned. I live and work only a few miles from Valley Forge National Historical Park. There is a ridiculous amount of retail nearby, probably closer than what this article states. If I took you there, you'd never know all of that was nearby. Have a look...

They are not asking to bulldoze the park! But again, it is a local issue.

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #11 on: 24-01-2011, 22:01:42 »
Man, how come threads always die with me?!?!
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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #12 on: 24-01-2011, 23:01:17 »
I donno, I read your response, and other's to mine, smiled, and felt nothing more needed to be said after your post :3

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #13 on: 24-01-2011, 23:01:39 »
Seems like a classic case of 'We don't want this 'monstrosity' to be built here, so we will find some plausible but ultimately BS reason why it shouldn't be built and then that will attract a media circus and we will be the good guys because we implicate the developers as destroyers of history/environment/picturesque rabble rabble rabble".

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Re: Wal-Mart Rebellion...
« Reply #14 on: 24-01-2011, 23:01:19 »
 as long as you want to buy cheeseburgers in bulk packs of 24,

as long as you purchase 400 rolls of toilet paper at once,

as long as we don't want fresh produce or specialty foods,


 THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A WALMART.


Seriously, this is no biggy to me. There's bigger problems with Walmart like equitable pay and health care, so in my mind it's just a red herring. People should protest the Walmart for it's failings and hold them to a higher standard if they are to be allowed into that town.
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