With all this Wal-Mart bashing, I gotta post Carla's lyric. This is about a small midwestern town's fight to keep them out:


We Don't Need a Wal-Mart
By Bob Malone and Carla Ulbrich
www.carlau.com



12 miles to the East... a Wal-Mart sets
12 miles to the North... another one yet
12 miles to the South... that’s right, you bet
That's why I say... we don’t need a Wal-Mart

We don’t need a Wal-Mart... I’d rather have trees and grass
I’d rather have a hemherroid... or an algebra class
They got no scruples, they got no class
We don’t need a Wal Mart, they can kiss my — butt

So we said "Hey, Wal-Mart, we don’t want you,"
"We won’t rezone." They said, “Oh yeah, we’ll sue”
So now we got 3 lawyers all getting their due
Thank you Wal-Mart, that’s mighty neighborly of you

We don’t need a Wal-Mart in our community
The best things in life aren’t cheap... they’re free
We could do without the pleasure of this kind of company
We don’t need a Wal-Mart in this locality

A store so big you got to have a map
Aisles and aisles of cheap imported crap
It’s what some folks like to call progress
I call it proof that sometimes more is less

Don’t really have to think too hard
About whether I want one in my backyard
118 towns already said no
We’d also like to tell you where not to go

We don’t need a Wal-Mart... we already got three
How many big-ass ugly grey buildings with a red stripe do we really need?
I wish Sam was alive so he could hear me
I’d say... "I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy, than a Wal-Mart in front of me."