Wal-Mart, a place of discovery and wonder, is nothing more than a place where you can buy cheaply made objects at cheap prices. Not that saying that your average person thinks that far into it because a person just wants a good price. It is not everywhere that you can buy a good-looking watch for twenty bucks. At the same time though, why are the prices that low and how do they keep them that way. At what lengths does the corporation go to just to satisfy the customer? Has this company gone to far in its efforts to make life our lives as the customers simpler?
             How many companies in the last ten years have gone out of business because of Wal-Mart, how many local stores? In principle no company should be able to gain so much power and influence in the U.S. political system. Wal-Mart since it opened has slowly taken over the business world and become a major part of our everyday lives. Going unnoticed with its influences in this past election and the amounts of money donated to George Bush. Workers of this company cannot even afford to shop at the store they work at if they pull 32 hours a week.
             Even if you are a demarcate you still helped Bush enter into both terms of his presidency. How you might ask, well because you shop at Wal-Mart. The Walton family supports the Republican Party, hoping that a few bothersome tax issues will be taken care of. The major one being the estate tax, which Bush won the approval of a gradual reduction for, culminating in a full repeal by 2010. This past election year the Wal-Mart corporation donated $2.7-million in political contributions. The Republican candidates received 80% of these contributions. The donations did not only go to the White House though, some of it went to their favored congressmen. One being from our home state David Vitter and John Thune of South Dakota, both were elected to the Senate this year for the first time. These two men are opposed to the bothersome est...