Anyone ever seen Michael Moore's film THE BIG ONE? Very enlightening.

His website may be of interest: www.michaelmoore.com.

Personally I see no need to give up French wine or Italian shoes (yeah like I can afford 'em!) or Swedish cars (one of which I used to own)..the probelm seems to me to be the way that American businesses get sucked inthe corporate vortex of bigger, faster, cheaper. The evil Walmart Kendall speaks of, and other places like it, is the new anti-Christ, no question. Think about it: how many people will go to the local hardware store to buy tools, their local paint store to buy brushes and paint, their local garden shop to buy plants and gardening tools, their local feed supply store to buy bird seed, and their local camping supplier to buy propane, when they can get it all at HOME DEPOT, and faster and cheaper too?

same with Walmart: milk, cookies, nail polish remover, dish towels, guns and ammo, electronics, brassieres, shoes, CDs, fabric and sewing notions, etc. etc. all UNDER ONE ROOF! And at prices that NO MOM AND POP STORE CAN HOPE TO COMPETE WITH?

Soon we will have no choices at all, and our towns will have only CVS, big grocery chains, Walmart, Home Depot, Petco, and the multiplex cinema to patronize...what happened to all our choices? They went away when WE made the choice to sacrifice them: for the sake of convenience, saving a bit of money, and blind allegiance to the bigger-is-better mentality.

God bless America. We are surely screwed.