NPR STILL DOESN'T GET CAPITALISM
In another hit piece today, NPR reports from its basic assumption that Wal-Mart is destroying the country and its wonderful, friendly, hometown culture. Funny how when NPR can long nostagically for the 1950s America. Today's report was about a small town in Wisconsin called, I think, Viroqua, that was able to preserve its downtown and keeps its small businesses from getting "rolled over" by Wal-Mart. Nice loaded terminology about the results of efficiency and competition. How did this Wisconsin town survive? By repairing "dilapidated" buildings and studying the market to determine what are the customer's needs and figuring out how to fill them. They discovered that they were a farming town and a little agricultural expertise in their "variety" store was a good thing.

But what NPR doesn't undrestand is that the local businessmen were operating out of dilapidated buildings and failing to serve the needs of their customers (not to mention the high prices), and this complacency did not end until Wal-Mart came to town and forced these people to compete and stop.

Tomorrow, NPR promises to look into "whether Wal-Mart's price cutting has gone too far"? Shocking question, isn't it. I guess NPR doesn't count a lot of the working poor among its listeners.