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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Maybe we should have had a government stepping to to save those little stores. Because certainly they deserved to survive as much as the independent bookstores do today.
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Nobody stepped up to help them, right?
Just as nobody stepped up to save Borders.
Minor regret expressed but when it came time to put money behind the words...
When citizens get to vote with their wallet *they* don't vote protectionist; that is for politicians taking care of the entrenched powers at the expense of the consumers.
It's all a matter of whose money is at stake.
