I never said the whole thing was Wal-mart's fault.  Still if a mugger robs a poor guy of his rent money and the guy ends up homeless, do we give the mugger a pass because he's not responsible for the guy being in trouble in the first place?

You describe a lot of valid problems with small towns and the economy.  No one's saying Wal-mart caused them nor that getting rid of Wal-mart would fix them.

Still, as I said before, they're capitalizing on the problem and making it worse.  I called it economic strip-mining, DeAnander called it predation -- whatever you want to call it, it's a bad thing and they deserve as much criticism as we can dish out.  They are part of the problem.  They're making things worse and a pretty big scale.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes