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- James Howard Kunstler -

Small businesses in America drove the economy at one time and I wouldn't necessarily label them inefficient. I would rather, under all circumstances, purchase from a small business than something like Walmart. I know, I'm 'old fashioned', out of touch and ultimately 'anti-capitalism' simply because I'd rather support someone who made their way and their livelihood from a business they created from practically nothing. I admire that. What we're left with according to the 'logic' of Mr. North is that the reality of the small business model in America is inappropriate and has seen its day. I wonder what's going to happen to all those folks with good ideas who want to put them into practice. Will people who want to start a small business simply give up because they cannot reconcile operating 'inefficiently' with 'inefficient' employees with the possibilities of a successful operation? Yeah, I understand, Walmart is efficient and they're bottom line proves it; but without China, they're simply taking up space. Give me the Main Street small operation anytime - a place where I can hang out and shoot the breeze, perhaps bargain for a better deal or ask for a little more time to pay the bill. What Mr. North obviously neglected to consider is the fact that businesses like Walmart ultimately lead to less choice rather than more, less competition and its attendant result of a better product and better service. I don't fancy the possibility of Walmart selling everything, owning everything and wiping out the small guy before they even get started. Doesn't sound like capitalism to me.

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Beginning of the headline :Last week, extreme right-wing, hyper-patriot blogger and "Christian Reconstructionist" Gary North published a piece that bounced around the Web titled "James Howard Kunstler: Foul-Mouthed Apologist for the Good Old Boys." Gary North was inflamed because I had put out a recent blog inveighing against the chain-store rape of local economies from sea to shining sea. North wrote:Consider his [JHK's] most recent screed. It begins with an attack on the most successful free market retailing operation o... Read More

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