Posted on 07/11/2011 9:29:40 AM PDT by massmike
Mayor Thomas M. Menino may be reluctant to roll out the welcome mat for Wal-Mart, but some Boston residents say they want the jobs and low-priced goods.
The battle over bringing a Wal-Mart to the city is heating up. On one side are Menino and activists who have criticized the retail giant’s wages and benefits, while on the other side are city residents who insist the mayor should bring Wal-Mart — and its jobs and rock-bottom prices — to Boston.
Darnell Williams, president of the Urban League of Massachusetts, ratcheted up the debate last week when he told the Boston Business Journal the city should “embrace a project that would bring jobs for residents.” Williams could not be reached for comment yesterday.
But Horace Small, executive director the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, an advocacy group in Jamaica Plain, countered, “I understand that the black community has been decimated by double-digit unemployment, but we should not settle for just any jobs.”
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The commie yuppies in my neighborhood are trying to block a Walmart.
What business is it of theirs ? The store will be 15 blocks south, across the freeway, in an area of Houston hardly related to our “Heights” neighborhood.
Hurt local business ? Yeah, right. I have a Home Depot and a Lowes quite close to me, but I still shop at my local hardware store for almost everything. Why ? I can park 15 feet from the store (instead of 500 feet), and the service is attentive and outstanding as opposed to sparse and rude. There are maybe 3 people in the checkout line instead of 10 or 15. And it’s closer.
More ignorant liberals trying to make everybody live “their” way.
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