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1 posted on 07/11/2011 9:29:46 AM PDT by massmike
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“We should not just settle for any jobs”. Ever been married and unemployed Horace?


2 posted on 07/11/2011 9:32:35 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massmike
..."but we should not settle for just any jobs."

And the reason for that is? Hello? Hello?

3 posted on 07/11/2011 9:34:11 AM PDT by JPG (Sarah is ready to rock 'n roll!)
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"but we should not settle for just any jobs, when we can have good Marxist government union jobs."
4 posted on 07/11/2011 9:37:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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“I understand that the black community has been decimated by double-digit unemployment, but we should not settle for just any jobs.”

Stupid, stupid bastard. Somehow not allowing Wal-Mart in is going to improve the job scene? Don't people work there of their own free will? And what about the other benefits of a low priced store?
5 posted on 07/11/2011 9:38:16 AM PDT by youngidiot (Hear Hear!)
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7 posted on 07/11/2011 9:38:56 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To paraphrase the late sainted “Tip” O’Neill, Bostonians need Wal-Mart to continue justifying voting Democrat.


9 posted on 07/11/2011 9:42:25 AM PDT by Theodore R. (98)
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“I understand that the black community has been decimated by double-digit unemployment, but we should not settle for just any jobs."

The Nagin/Katrina bus argument applied to Boston unemployment, with the same, predictable results.


10 posted on 07/11/2011 9:47:08 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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"“We should not just settle for any jobs”. "

spoken like a man with an agenda - and a job. YOU can go without YOUR job until HE approves of it. talk about arrogance.

11 posted on 07/11/2011 9:48:59 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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Horace Small, executive director the Union of Minority Neighborhoods... “I understand that the black community has been decimated by double-digit unemployment, but we should not settle for just any jobs.”

Union you say?

12 posted on 07/11/2011 10:14:18 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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I just had a mini debate with a liberal on this issue. I asked her basically what is her goal? There is no evidence that small stores pay better wages or benefits. Also the key indicator that determines retail diversity is availability of good private sector jobs. When coal took at hit post 80s in appalachia and thousands of miners were layed off retail diversity contracted in those areas for some time. The truth is Walmart doesn’t kill business or retail diversity it usually causes more diversity because competitors usually use Walmart to help determine where they will locate. So where Walmart leads others follow because they know money is to be made.

There will always be spurts of consolidation and fragmentation in the retail space but this is no different today than with other large retailers of the past such as Sears and Roebuck. We see the same thing in the Pharmacy business and usually customers benefit from such consolidations as was the case with Standard Oil in the energy sector and when they don’t new competitors step in to fill the opportunities provided by dissatisfied customers.

We have seen countless new boutique style stores and speciality stores in the era of Walmart which flies in the face of liberal arguments. They may cherry pick towns in Nowhereville America which already were economically depressed before Walmart and try to make a case against Walmart but it is an empty one because if Walmart pulls out it probably means the area was already too far gone to be saved and where ‘Mom & Pop’ stores close well that happens with or without Walmart. I know personally of towns that went through a slow death all by themselves and a Walmart isn’t within a hundred miles. Blaming Walmart suggests that some how there is need for an entitlement program for inefficient businesses that people don’t want to shop at or can’t afford to shop at. This is crazy and doesn’t benefit anyone in the long term instead it keeps communities imprisoned and isolated. The North East in my opinion is running behind the South in cost of living and retail expansion because of stupid hostile policies against franchises and retailers.


14 posted on 07/11/2011 10:33:15 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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Just go to the Walmart in New Hampshire on a Saturday afternoon.
Mass license plates outnumber N.H.’s 4 to 1.
We do pretty well when they don't have a store to call their own. PLUS THEY PAY NO SALES TAX.
15 posted on 07/11/2011 10:35:25 AM PDT by lucky american (I'm tired.)
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That horrible Wal-Mart, giving people jobs and affordable products... just terrible.


20 posted on 07/11/2011 11:15:43 AM PDT by Made In The USA (This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
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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.


21 posted on 07/11/2011 1:17:38 PM PDT by jimt
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