Newt on Walmart, from NPR's Marketplace

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Newt Gingrich commentary on WalmartI heard this on the radio, and wanted to pass it along. I'm anti-Walmart in general, not because of its squashing of local businesses, but because of the fact that it's always packed full of assholes. Too many people. This is the same reason I dread going back to China, ever. Way too many people. But I

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an easy counter point: Employees hired by Walmart should be prohibited from voting on the grounds that working there clearly saps both their intellegence and their will to live.

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Still, I think most people are rightly suspicious of companies "suggesting" how people should vote, and having them provide voter registration to increase the number of employees who vote.

I am also dubious of claims that Walmart saves anyone money... Walmart is known for dumping expenses to the County and State which normaly are retained by a company, such as healthcare, food stamps to feed their employees etc.