Dear mr Kendall:

#1 Were the slaves set free after the Emancipation Proclamation?

#2 Were the slaves working men and women?

Even if you disqualify this answer as not immediately freeing the slaves, it was still a thing done for the slaves and constitutes one thing that the Republicans have done.

as the Union armies advanced, hundreds or thousands of slaves were liberated each day — until nearly all 4 million were free by summer 1865. (The border states freed their own slaves, except Kentucky, where some slavery existed until December 1865.) The emancipation was permanently effected by the Thirteenth Amendment ratified in December 1865.

As a matter of Fact, the Republican party was founded to prevent the spread of slavery to new states as they joined the union. So the whole Republican party was something done for working men and women. No doubt you will find some tedious way to disprove that statement of fact.

Big Mick: You have accused me of being a retired union guy which I am not and moaning about the good old days when I am pleased with the present, now out of desperation you accuse me of being a paid Propagandist.

I am none of those things. The only interest I have in Walmart is when I shop there and the fact that the Democrats are trying to demonize Walmart and use it as a tool to get elected. Somehow it turned into a battle about unions.

The more I look for those vile, hated, cut and pastes to counter the assertion that others make here, the more I learn. I found how Democrats suck up to the unions to get votes and the unions suck up to the democrats to get more money. All the while, jobs are moving offshore to where there are no unions.

What great intellect is required to figure this out? People claim that are never what they appear to be on the surface. There are things being covered up and the real state of affairs is different from what you see because of some evil thing that is trying to control you.

I know I am free to do whatever I please and I enjoy it. I can shop at Walmart or Nordstrom's or Dollar general. By a Chevy (which I did) or a Toyota.

I enjoyed the bit about "two big burly Wal-Mart recruiters jumped out from behind the trash bins and Shanghaied me." it perfectly illustrates the fallacy of the anti-Walmart rhetoric.

In other places people assert that Walmart runs other small stores out of business and the people have no choice but to work for Walmart. Other times they sate when Walmart opens where there are no jobs and people go to work for Walmart, it is still a bad thing because of health care.

So fire away at me and Walmart, it's your right to do so. Maybe I am a mile wide and a half inch deep. That way you can see that I am not covering anything up.