No ‘Choice’ (projectile vomit communist tirade alert)

In These Times ^ | March 31, 2004 | Glen Ford and Peter Gamble

[El Conservador]

Soldier on, comrades!!! (/sarcasm)

[EternalHope]

Wow! Guess I'll have to buy more at Walmart...

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[ladyinred]

If evil could be branded, its emblem would be the Wal-Mart logo.

Hadn't they better get the UN and France's permission to go to war against Wally world?

Communist tirade if ever I heard one! How dare these Waltons be rich and help education! What on earth was Bush thinking inventing these people?

[syriacus]

I've just surprised myself.....I'm beginning to like the Waltons.

[davisfh]

"an infusion of $20 billion into the Walton’s private philanthropy, most of it earmarked for education “reform”—the euphemism for school privatization."

Bring it on!!!!!!

[ASTM366]

"destroying communities"

Ah, forgive me guys but I don't think a retail store can "destroy" a community.

[MarkM]

Wow! If Walmart is that good I guess I better shop there more often. I didn't know Walmart was helping to fund school choice and bust the tax-hiking teachers unions. Thats good. Its just another reason to shop at Walmart.

[upchuck]

How good is Wal*Mart? So good that I rarely have to shop anywhere else.

It is a real convenience to get groceries, clothing, a DVD and home furnishings all at the same place. Wish mine had gasoline :)

Bless you Sam. Ya done good.

[Army Air Corps]

"In Los Angeles, Wal-Mart attempts to usurp the public’s power to decide how communities are developed, asserting a virtual right to barge in where it’s not wanted."


Damnit! If anyone is going to dictate terms to the people it should be the commisars comprised of the self-styled vanguard of the proletariat!

*Sarcasm off*

[CARepubGal]

I am too. Scary thought.

[E Rocc]

I'd love to see the reaction of Fannie Lewis (black radical Cleveland councilwoman and huge vouchers advocate) to this premise...LOL.

-Eric

[Army Air Corps]

Ah, forgive me guys but I don't think a retail store can "destroy" a community.


Well, there are nut-burgers on the left who believe that they can. I had to read a book for a graduate history class that was written by an anti-corporate nut (Naomi Klein). she claims that thses chains destroy public space; public space described in a non-existant past utopia. accroding to the lefties, these businesses cause the town square to disappear. It is a fairly long-winded theory that would occupy too much room in a post.

[narses]

Another great reason to shop WalMart! (Besides lower prices and no unions!)

[narses]

"In the here and now, two forces stand in the way of total corporate hegemony over U.S. political life: Black American voters and organized labor, particularly the teachers unions, whose members are highly active and dependably progressive even in the more reactionary regions of the country. Blacks and labor are the two pillars of the national Democratic Party, without which not even a shell would remain."

Shop WalMart!!!!!!!

[narses]

"In the here and now, two forces stand in the way of total corporate hegemony over U.S. political life: Black American voters and organized labor, particularly the teachers unions, whose members are highly active and dependably progressive even in the more reactionary regions of the country. Blacks and labor are the two pillars of the national Democratic Party, without which not even a shell would remain."

Shop WalMart!!!!!!!

[Libertina]

LOL I think they uphold the 2nd amendment as well...

[JasonC]

"K-12 is worth $350 billion yearly to taxpayers"

Is worth? Don't you mean *costs*?

"The teachers unions—the National Education Association (NEA, 2.7 million members) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT, 1 million members) spend about $350 million a year combined, for all purposes"

So can anyone taught by public schools still do the math? 3.7 million teams cost $350 billion a year, means around $95,000 per year, each. And four hundred school districts in California want to opt out of Algebra I requirements, because they were confused about whether high school seniors had to have signed up for a class with "3 + 2x = 7" in it, or had to actually be able to pick "x = 2" out of four choices when presented that sort of thing. After 13 years of math class, five days a week. (And Pershing Road, educrat central here in Chicago - where the kids can't even read - is paved with pink marble).

Commies are terrified of a "tidal wave of money", in the form of $1 billion of philanthropy? But taxpayers can't possibly be outraged at $350 billion a year, decade after decade, with less and less to show for it. But oh, to commies it isn't less and less. It is less of that oppressive math that might make people prefer things that are cheaper or more efficient, and more indoctrinating commie drivel.

They are scared. They should be scared. Not of the Waltons. If the American people knew what they are really about and what they have already done, they would have to count themselves lucky if they were only looking for a job at Walmart, rather than hanging from the lamp-posts, by morning.

[litany_of_lies]

Who needs vowchers? The publick skools are doing sutch a grate job.

[BlazingArizona]

Each of us votes with his wallet on where to shop. Wal-Mart has the power to move wherever it wants to precisely because Wal-Mart is where Americans like to shop. The dumpy little local stores where liberals purportedly refer to shop are being steamrollered by Wal-Mart precisely because of the retail choices the majority is making. The zoning nannies are getting blown away by Wal-Mart because the huge majority pf shoppers - the "community", remember - has decided they would rather shop at the big store that has everything.