The Walmart State

Walmart to get $1.3 million of your money to buy land:

PRINCESS ANNE - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s newest planned distribution center could receive up to $1.3 million in federal aid following approval of a Community Development Block Grant application by Somerset County Commissioners this month.

The bulk of the grant - $810,000 - would help fund Wal-Mart's purchase of land for the proposed center on Revells Neck Road in Westover.

It's your money, as King George says. Now I may not be some fancy, big-city, ivory tower egghead like our dear President. But I could think of at least five better places $1.3 million could go to, other than the world's largest corporate empire.

Perhaps some of you can think of one or two or three hundred thousand.