They were going to build a WalMart in my neighborhood last year, but some local poverty pimps made so much noise about it that they chased WalMart away. They claimed that WalMart doesn’t pay a “living wage”. I was so mad that I went to the town hall meeting and got in their faces about it.
“What gives you the right to deny employment to somebody who needs a job, just because you don’t think they’d make enough money? It’s that kind of self-righteous fake altruism that makes people hate liberals!”
When Wal-Mart opened in my town a few years ago, people were happy to have them; thousands of people applied for a few hundred jobs, and everyone saves a lot by shopping there. They built on land that probably couldn’t be used for much else (in a swamp, near garbage dumps); everyone came out ahead.