Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I know that the lady no longer works for DFS so she probably doesn't have access to those 30% discounts....and must seek discounts any where possible....(what, no more friends to get the discounts for her either?) The poster on the K57 website didn't say she was shopping for furniture or jewellery.......as you know, the lady's getting ready to move into the big house on the hill and may be trying to save GovGuam some bucks furnishing the place.......alas! my second and most precious point!
First of all A.,...military people earn little money and so they are allowed to shop at these cheap(although these days stores such as K-Mart and similar stores are often more inexpensive)exchances in order to survive. It's a privilege for the military person and his/er dependent to shop at these places.(as well, of course, people who work for DOD, et related fields) B., Guam's government gets almost ALL and I mean almost all of its operating money(other than that of compact impact funds and section 30 monies from the feds) from the private sector....from such companies as K-Mart, Ross, Macy's and oh, gosh, pick up the yellow pages and read the list of the companies that do business on Guam. Companies that employ people, pay gross receipt taxes.........they'd literally die if we all shopped at Andersen or at Big Navy. They'd all wither up and die if we had our cousins, uncles and aunts do our buying our diapers and baby formula at the exchange there instead of Dickerson and Quinn or at Ambrose.
It's my hope that the dear lady was at a grand-opening and she was there for a ribbon-cutting and was merely browsing the pretty aisles because if she wasn't, she owes the members of the Guam Chamber of Commerce and those doing business of Guam a big apology!