"Katherine says he's holding out for a management position!"
Posted on 07/11/2011 9:29:40 AM PDT by massmike
Mayor Thomas M. Menino may be reluctant to roll out the welcome mat for Wal-Mart, but some Boston residents say they want the jobs and low-priced goods.
The battle over bringing a Wal-Mart to the city is heating up. On one side are Menino and activists who have criticized the retail giant’s wages and benefits, while on the other side are city residents who insist the mayor should bring Wal-Mart — and its jobs and rock-bottom prices — to Boston.
Darnell Williams, president of the Urban League of Massachusetts, ratcheted up the debate last week when he told the Boston Business Journal the city should “embrace a project that would bring jobs for residents.” Williams could not be reached for comment yesterday.
But Horace Small, executive director the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, an advocacy group in Jamaica Plain, countered, “I understand that the black community has been decimated by double-digit unemployment, but we should not settle for just any jobs.”
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“We should not just settle for any jobs”. Ever been married and unemployed Horace?
And the reason for that is? Hello? Hello?
"Katherine says he's holding out for a management position!"
I da mayah and I know what’s best for youse. So go to da rollin rally for the Red Sock, look at da jumbletroms and use da potta potties. And if dere is, if dere is somethin’ suspicious out dere, call 911.
http://mumblesmenino.us/mumbling/CALL%20911.mp3
Classic stuff!
To paraphrase the late sainted “Tip” O’Neill, Bostonians need Wal-Mart to continue justifying voting Democrat.
The Nagin/Katrina bus argument applied to Boston unemployment, with the same, predictable results.
spoken like a man with an agenda - and a job. YOU can go without YOUR job until HE approves of it. talk about arrogance.
Union you say?
In other words “we need to keep subsidizing Democrat Baby Machines”, aka, welfare queens...
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.
What was the lib’s response?
How soon into your reasoned exposition did her eyes glaze over?
Or just go to the North Shore—Lynn (I think), Salem, Danvers, Peabody. The Salem one used to be a Rich’s Store. But yes MA buyers do go to NH (and before the alcohol sales tax—it was already subject to an excise tax—was repealed BY THE VOTERS, MA liquor buyers would flock to NH. Including a couple “do as we say, not as we do” MA legislators who were caught on camera buying liquor in the Granite State.
She eventually just gave up. The truth is you can’t really reason with people who hold such irrational views some of which are merely political rhetorical warfare against a perceived enemy not necessarily a real reasoned conviction. Does anyone believe liberals really care about “Mom & Pop” stores in the hinterland? If anything they resent them and their values however their ultimate goal is to get “Mom & Pop” to not think of themselves as independent small businesses but instead as dependents to govt through anticompetitive policies which ultimately hurt the community as a whole as well as ambituous Mom & Pop small businesses. Anticompetitive policies inevitably cause a decrease in business agility and slows expansion and cements the govt as the arbiter of who wins or loses rather than letting the inherent success of the business stand or fall in relationship to its customers.
Thanks for the reply.
Truth and logical thinking to a lib is like sunlight to a vampire.
They ar enot used to being intellectually challenged on their “beliefs”, which is actually unchallenged groupthink.
That horrible Wal-Mart, giving people jobs and affordable products... just terrible.
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