Time to Vent

Today is going to be venting Friday. Once again the song Pave Paradise, Put Up a Parking Lot is going through my head. I'm trying to think of something positive to write today, but with the plans announced yesterday to make a major shopping development just a few miles from my house, I am having a difficult time. The fact that it's just a few miles from my home is not the issue, but the fact that these same stores, Fred Meyer, Home Depot, and Walgreens, are all already 4-6 miles from where the proposed shopping area would be is the issue. Why would you put stores this close together, especially when the new Cabela's is drawing in the same businesses, and they would be another 5-6 miles away in the other direction? The only answer is GREED. How can all these stores survive so close to one another? How can the stores, like Super 1 which is locally owned, make it with all these mega stores going up everywhere? I think the same thing when I hear that Walmart wants to go in by Cabela's, but they already have a mega store 5 miles from that site, and another one about 10 miles away in Spokane. Wow, how greed has taken over everything these large corporations do, and the city planners are approving. I also wonder how these mega stores can go out on the prairie over the aquifer that they are "trying to protect," and why they aren't being met with the same opposition that the proposed hospital and church are being met with. Why? MONEY AND GREED!

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. Frank Buchman

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. ~Janwillem van de Wetering