Shop 'til you drop, literally

Every product I pick up at Walmart is made in China.

Walmart, the family-controlled (by American family aptly named the Waltons) mega-chain.

The Waltons are one of, if not the richest family in America.  Among them, they have a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined. 

They do have a foundation “the Walton Family Foundation” that invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year in education reform, the environment and the family’s home region of northwest Arkansas.

Philanthropists.

And yet, pick up a product in their store and most likely you will see the label “Made in China.”

So, on one hand, they co-opt the soul and foundation of this country to China in a way that I have the sense that none of us at this point truly understands and, on the other hand, they are giving the poorest people in this country (millions of them) cancer, with their plastics and low-grade toxic materials and harmful ingredients all of which dear China doesn’t give a crap about.  And I’m not talking making everything organic.  Walmart is a toxic land mine.

I was there this morning, because where I live that’s where you shop and I was infuriated by this.

And don’t tell me Walmart shoppers should boycott Walmart because if you do (and I’m sure there is a word for it and I wish I knew it because I see the scenario all the time) you are asking the impossible of the population.

But you know who should boycott somebody or something, the Waltons.  All this money, and then all this ostensible giving to charity...their store, it’s products…are a crime, a crime against our country, and a crime against humanity.

Honestly, it is subtle terrorism on every level and hurts everyone.  We have words for other forms of obscure terrorism, like cyber terrorism.  I think what the Waltons are doing is economic terrorism, it is so unpatriotic, it is so uncool, and it is also homicide.  Sure, be a capitalist, but honestly, do you care about no one?

Rolling out of Walmart, I angrily mused, I bet Trump has a hand in this.

But, nope, the Walton’s supported both Obama and Hillary.

They have a lot of guilt, evidently, but no balls.