"Who needs a Waldenbooks or a Barnes and Noble when there's <font color=”#0000ff”>Prairie Lights</font> nearby? Why would anyone order from Dominos with <font color=”#0000ff”>Pagliai's</font> in town?"

Anyone trying to buy books on a budget might want the Barnes and Noble. Ditto for pizza and Dominios. This issue can split right down class lines: Lower middle class Americans often appreciate the relief big chains can give to tight budgets. Upper middle class folk (& up) are more willing to pay for the atmosphere.

So unfettered capitalism gave us sweatshops and robber barrons and the government saved us again. What a bunch of socialist nonsense. This is the typical response from people educated by our Marxist educational system.  Capitalism is what brought the country out of that situation through inovation, it's called an air conditioner. A "progressive" is just another word for a socialist or Marxist[H. Clinton for example}. They think all you have to do to cure a problem is use government force backed up by a gun to change the way people do things. If governments can fix everything why doesn't North Korea just wave a magic wand and stop all of their people from starving to death?

Capitalism through the protection of one's property is ths source of everything good that we have. Government is the source of war and plunder.

Have a nice day.

So unfettered capitalism gave us sweatshops and robber barrons and the government saved us again. What a bunch of socialist nonsense. This is the typical response from people educated by our Marxist educational system.  Capitalism is what brought the country out of that situation through inovation, it's called an air conditioner. A "progressive" is just another word for a socialist or Marxist[H. Clinton for example}. They think all you have to do to cure a problem is use government force backed up by a gun to change the way people do things. If governments can fix everything why doesn't North Korea just wave a magic wand and stop all of their people from starving to death?

Capitalism through the protection of one's property is ths source of everything good that we have. Government is the source of war and plunder.

Have a nice day.

"Who needs a Waldenbooks or a Barnes and Noble when there's Prairie Lights nearby? Why would anyone order from Dominos with Pagliai's in town?"

Anyone trying to buy books on a budget might want the Barnes and Noble. Ditto for pizza and Dominios. This issue can split right down class lines: Lower middle class Americans often appreciate the relief big chains can give to tight budgets. Upper middle class folk (& up) are more willing to pay for the atmosphere.