Originally Posted by 
Superfreak 					
 				 				This is why you are a retard... you cannot understand anything.
1) Walmart sales are slipping because of the foreclosures and the fact that they don't always go up.
2) Medical insurance is too expensive because idiots like you chant  Universal Healthcare rather than looking first to see WHY the costs are  rising so rapidly and then DOING something about the higher costs.   Instead you want the inept government to mismanage yet ANOTHER aspect of  our lives, despite their failures with SS, Medicare, Medicaid,  Education etc....
3) Foreclosures/bankruptcies are up primarily due to two reasons...  one  is that the government tried to intervene and pushed for more people to  be able to buy homes. 
 The mortgage companies took advantage.  The  second reason is far too many people in this country bought more home  than they could afford.  If in the lowest interest rate environment in  40 years you could not afford to get a 15 or 30 year fixed... then you  had NO business buying the home with an ARM or interest only loan.   Interest rates only had one direction to go..... UP.... and only a  complete retard doesn't understand that higher interest rates equates to  having to pay more.  Unfortunately... a lot of people are retarded.