Moonbat economics
Here's how the "progressives" over at DU welcome the creation of many thousands of new jobs.
Not im MY hometown... if we have anything to do with it.and one of the behemoth monsters is going to be in my neighborhood... ick
Ugh! One day the landscape is going to blighted with these massive abandoned Wal-Mart stores.
Why Dont they Try Something differnt... Like take care of their employees????
I pledge allegiance to the smiley of the United Corporation of Wal-Mart and to the shareholders for which it stands, one store under Mammon, indivisible, with false savings and crappy merchandise for all.
Yeah, this Wal-Mart expansion is a bad idea. Because you just know that if Wal-Mart doesn't create those stores, the vacuum will immediately be filled as 1,500 "Mother Jones Organic Co-op and Soy Vanilla Latté Stand and Biodegradable Indie DVD Rental and Moss Tampon Emporium" will no doubt open in their place, hiring hundreds of employees each at high-paying, union scale wages and a benefits package that acknowledges "domestic partners."
That's what will happen if Wal-Mart doesn't expand, right? Right??
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barry if you want to learn to dance you're going to have to refer to "high-paying, union scale wages" as a "living wage". Framing is everything.
Posted by: ortho | February 8, 2006 02:03 PM
Barry, you ever shopped at a Walmart? Have you ever even seen one?
The stuff they sell is just this side of crap and the jobs are just barely better than nothing.
Posted by: Bob | February 8, 2006 07:21 PM
Bob, something is better than nothing. Not to rag on Hicksville, USA, but I think I'd rather have a full time job at Wal-Mart making $11 bucks an hour, versus a part-time job at the local machine shop making $8 bucks an hour for 10 hours a week.
Face it, liberals hate Wal-Mart because it's "big business," and big business = the opposite of communism, which is exactly what they want.
To a liberal, they believe if you're poor, you should have automatic income from the tax placed on the rich people. That is because (obviously) the fact that poor people didn't mean to be put in that situation, and it's obviously not their fault.
Liberal Economics 101
Posted by: Motor | February 8, 2006 09:32 PM
> Barry, you ever shopped at a Walmart? Have you ever even seen one?
You're kidding, right?
Posted by: Barry | February 8, 2006 09:41 PM
>You're kidding, right?
What, now you're going to tell me a yuppie like you shops at Walmart?
;)
Posted by: Bob | February 8, 2006 11:16 PM
Hey Motor, I've seen up close what Walmart can do to a small town.
Before Walmart a thriving main street with numerous small businesses, after Walmart empty storefronts.
Don't give me this Walmart is good for America crap when you clearly don't get it.
Posted by: Bob | February 8, 2006 11:19 PM
> What, now you're going to tell me a yuppie like you shops at Walmart?
I swear, you know how to hurt a guy. I avoid Wal-Marts as much as possible, simply because I don't enjoy shopping there (although it is one of the few places where you can still get a genuine Icee.) I have, however, been in my fair share of Wal-Marts, particularly since I grew up in the South.
I'll confess to being a Costco shopper myself, but I don't feel the need to disparage the shopping choices of others. If they want to buy "crap" then let them. (Although surely you realize that much of what Wal-Mart stocks are the same name brands you find everywhere else.)
And believe it or not, I also mourn the deaths of downtowns and the demise of mom & pop retail stores and the srip mall-ification of our landscape, but I believe Wal-Mart is more a symptom of this disease than a cause.
Posted by: Barry | February 9, 2006 07:28 AM
yeah most of the anti wal-marters people dont shop at those 'mom and pops' either!
i guess i'm also a spineless hypocrite because i support walmart but hate shopping there.
gah some people get suicidal when a walmart closes too...like the land is ruined forever!!!
Posted by: ortho | February 9, 2006 06:56 PM
>I believe Wal-Mart is more a symptom of this disease than a cause.
Willows, CA had a nice little main street lined with stores until they opened up a Walmart out by the airport. Believe me, Walmart wasn't merely a symptom, it was the cause.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 9, 2006 07:49 PM