Posted on 08/25/2006 4:33:57 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
I'm trying to remember what the outcome was in Chicago when Walmart proposed a store on the s.w. side of the city....sometime in the past year...?
I remember that...
As I recall Walmart still built the store, just outside the city limits. So the people still got the jobs, but the sales taxes and property taxes all went to the neighboring city.
( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
IMHO, WM "deprives" the Dems of potential constituencies....and introduces them to the benefits of capitalism.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565376/posts
Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits.
That's it! Thanks. Good for Walmart. That was a solution!
Thanks!
Excellent point.
How long before Walmart goes over to the Democrat side? How long before they do the Dixie Chicks' shuffle and bow down to the all powerful liberal press and politicians?
LOL-indeed. I recently encountered someone so afflicted - a tech/assistant-type at a physical therapy clinic. She, like, just graduated from high school? and, like, doesn't know what she wants to study in college? She's thinking about history or poli-sci? because, like, she was sooooo inspired by her high school history teacher. Her high school history teacher filled her head with "issues" and "causes" to stand up for. Top of the list? Why, Walmart, of course!
This young lady let loose with a tirade one day, and the whole clinic basically came to a standstill to listen to her. Walmart is soooo evil. Walmart uses sweat shop labor while the fat cats drive Ferraris. Walmart won't pay their employees but the 'heirs' get the fortune without having to work for it. Boycott evil Walmart!! Blah blah blah, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
When it became clear that the clinic management thought this kind of nonsense *wasn't* inappropriate, the patients formed a conspiracy of their own and started asking a few questions of the young rocket scientist...
If target is a better place to shop and work, what's stopping an unhappy Walmart employee from working there? (her answer was that mostly 'old' people work at Walmart and wouldn't be interested in Target which is where young people work. One guy asked her what she had against old people? Shouldn't they have jobs so they can buy their perscriptions? LOL) Why is it better to buy sweatshop products at Target than at Walmart? Is it better to have a job in a sweatshop or to have no job at all? If a father has a sweatshop job to put food on the table for his kids and buy them a better future/more opportunities, would you rather he go back to the farm or wherever where his kids have no future at all? Are you against children in poor countries?? (heh - this one made her upset) So the fat cats own a lot of stocks and bonds. Your high school was built with bonds, would you rather have the new school building or the old one? Buying a Ferrari means the people who make and ship and sell Ferraris *have* jobs. People who mine the iron ore, who make the steel, who make the parts, who make the cars, the designers, the marketers, the people who make the slick magazine advertisements all have jobs because of people who buy the products. Their kids get to eat, get to buy pencils and lunch boxes for school, get to go to college... And so on.
There were four of us piling on. The poor girl had no chance. Finally she gave up and said, "I don't care! Walmart is still evil. That's why I shop at Target."
Her generation is our future...
Confronting a liberal with reason and logic is truly casting pearls before swine...............
Asking to be specific about their generalizations is good sport. They hate that tactic because it forces them to think.
Wally ping.
Can you explain to us why a company, widely viewed as one of the best if not THE best run Corporation in history, would follow the example of the Dixie Chicks whose actions destroyed their earning potential? Are you not aware their latest tour is an unmitigated disaster?
They whine: "Why is there no inner city development?"
Then they drive off anyone who tries.
True, but it was cheap entertainment, too.
Wal-Mart is going to remain the dominant player for a while, but they aren't going to crush folks like they used to do.
That was to cover the cost of closing their German operation. That had not been succussful.
Outisde that write off, I believe they were up 3% or so.
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