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[El Conservador]

Speaker after speaker -- from religious and political leaders to labor and community activists to current and former Wal-Mart employees -- accused the company of providing low-paying jobs with meager benefits, gobbling up competitors and running roughshod over women and illegal immigrants. Wal-Mart disputes the claims, saying it has been unfairly maligned.

Well, well, well. They've nailed every leftist talking point to the last one!!!

[jtminton]

A for-profit business is created for the sole purpose of making money. It's purpose is not to provide high wages and benefits. If Wal-Mart is employing people, then they are paying enough. The only time they HAVE to raise wages is when they lose employees. These are just commies and union thugs scared that Wal-Mart is going to expose the union racket.

[Willie Green]

Everybody used to pooh-pooh the plight of Main Street merchants when WalMart was content to attack SmallTown, USA.
NOW the Beast is getting ready to devour Chicago... it MUST be stopped!!!

[B Knotts]

Too bad Fr. Pfleger doesn't get as outraged about politicians who support abortion as he does about a company that doesn't do business with union thugs.

Remember, this is the guy that let "Rev." Al Sharpton speak at his church.

[Graybeard58]

As an African-American woman, I once worked for $1 an hour. I'm not talking about what I don't know."

As A White Anglo Saxon Protestant I worked for 50 cents an hour, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, as a matter of fact this was my summer vacation from school from the time I was 10 years old until I went in the military at age 18- basic training was a vacation for me. Can I get some reparations?

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Are these the same people who act as though life on Earth will end when gasoline goes up a nickel a gallon?

They're going to love Wal-Mart's everyday low, low prices.

[Fausto]

Interesting. I was channel surfing last night and came across a pro Wal-Mart demonstration apparently led by a few different community leaders, including (interestingly enough) some from the regligious community on WGN (I live in Vegas). Among the signs put forward from folks in the neighborhood was something like "Wal-Mart or welfare?". They got a point. I know my money gets stretched the farthest thanks to Wal-Mart as a consumer, and it provides jobs people do want.

Good to see such passion for consumerism, and not against it! I was actually surprised by the news report as I was expecting to see the some libs giving the normal anti-capitalism talking points against WalMart. Sounds like they won't have any problems finding passionate employees should they move into the 'hood. Obviously, a lot of people don't think it is *slave wages*. Let the individual decide.

[Moonman62]

I find it hard to believe that a well run company like Walmart would go into a market where it isn't wanted. These people making all the noise are professional complainers of the left, who don't represent the majority of their community.

[Steve_Seattle]

Anyone know what kind of a church St. Sabina's is? Sounds Eastern Orthodox.

[vpintheak]

These pathetic, moronic, statists are actually saying that they would rather not work, and despise capitalism. That is the heart of their "protests." If you don't like Wal-Mart, don't shop there, simple as that, it's how free markets work. If you don't want to work, well I shouldn't have to fork over my income taxes to support your lazy self. There is no "Beast" that needs to be stopped, as someone else has posted.

[jpsb]

Does wal-mart sell anything made in the USA? All I ever see in a wal-mart, the few times I am forced to go there, is Chicom crap. Good for Chicago screw wal-mark.

[Mike Bates]

Why the war against Wal-Mart?

[LittleRedRooster]

As an African-American woman, I once worked for $1 an hour. I'm not talking about what I don't know."

As a dishwasher I once worked for 75 cents and hour, and I often talk about what I don't know. Damn I applied for the wrong job.

[goldstategop]

Its funny the same criticism of Wal-mart comes from the same folks kvetching about the outsourcing of jobs overseas. Wal-mart would create thousands of minimum wage jobs for young black men and women in Chicago and give them the chance to move up the economic ladder. But to liberals, better no job than a job that pays an unskilled person a starting wage. That's their compassion for people in Chicago who want a shot at the American Dream: we're going to block the doors to keep you from getting a chance to have it cause Wal-mart isn't paying what WE consider the right wage. Add to that the Left's dislike of people being able to buy quality goods at the lowest prices. Not to mention all that tax revenue Chicago won't be getting to support schools and municipal services. Oy vey!