Tribe Approves Wal-Mart

Tribal Council approved a lease for Wal-Mart to be located on Hospital Road in Cherokee. I'm opposed to this plan for two big reasons.
The first is that the tribe is building their store. I'm opposed to tribal money being used in any way for what should be private enterprise developments. Wal-Mart is one of the world's top retailers, if not the world's top retailer. Why in the world should tribal money be used to build a store for this corporation?
The other is Wal-Mart's effect on local economies. It destroys them. While the chief mentions that there aren't a lot of mom and pop stores in Cherokee that could be effected, the tribe could well find itself in the same situation as the city of Clyde. Wal-Mart decided they needed to expand, which meant a whole new store built. However Wal-Mart tends to keep their leases, at least for a while, on the old locations, preventing new businesses from locating in them. The city of Clyde is left with a giant empty store where Wal-Mart was. The same could well happen to Cherokee. Even in situations where other businesses can locate to old Wal-Mart locations, those typically end up being terrible locations, as when Wal-Mart left, the businesses connected to them typically fail. What happened in Murphy is a prime example.
A protest should be filed and Council should uphold that protest for these reasons.