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Liberalism as Condescension
RealClearPolitics.com ^
| September 14, 2006
| By George Will
Posted on 09/14/2006 4:52:02 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
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Why would John F. Kerry say the following: Wal-Mart is, he said, "disgraceful'' and symbolic of "what's wrong with America.''
Here's why 1) Wal-Mart costs about 50 retail jobs among competitors for every 100 jobs Wal-Mart creates.
2) Wal-Mart and its effects save shoppers more than $200 billion a year, dwarfing such government programs as food stamps ($28.6 billion) and the earned-income tax credit ($34.6 billion).
To: .cnI redruM
You have put, into three simple sentences, everything I love about Free Republic. & why I keep coming back.
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:06:54 AM PDT
by
demonrum
("That rug really tied the room together")
To: .cnI redruM
Makes one wonder how much stock Theresa has in Wal Mart.
Why doesnt this horsefaced POS find a closet somewhere to masturbate in and just go away.
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:10:56 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: sgtbono2002
He would, but I just don't think he's up to the task.
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09/14/2006 5:20:22 AM PDT
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.cnI redruM
(Tom Cruise to Pluto: Welcome to the club!)
To: .cnI redruM
The article failed to mention Home Depot and Target. They were also 'targets' of the Chicago councils proposal.
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:23:14 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Shawnlaw
(No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
To: .cnI redruM
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:25:59 AM PDT
by
Cringing Negativism Network
(Tehran: Iran leader insists development of gas chambers, ovens marked "Jews", is for peaceful use.)
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To: sgtbono2002
"Why doesnt this horsefaced POS find a closet somewhere to masturbate in and just go away." Watch your tongue, sonny.
bttt
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:33:19 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(DemocRAT leaders easily confuse the minds of the simple.)
To: .cnI redruM
What's The Matter With Those Cheap Americans? They Don't Live In Malibu!
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:35:03 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Gabz
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:41:10 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: .cnI redruM
"People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart -- it has one-fifth of the nation's grocery business -- save at least 17 percent."
I bought "organic, vegetarian" American laid eggs yesterday at Wally-Mart, whatever those are. (My doc said I can't keep eating the way I did when I was 25 years old. Darn! Darn! Darn!) And they cost only 30¢ more than "normal" eggs.
Also bought 3 lbs. of turkey burgers (70% less fat than beef) for $4.02 - American made. That's a whole lot less money than sirloin burgers.
Picked up a loaf of American baked whole wheat bread for a buck and a half - about 50% cheaper than elsewhere.
And got a 12 pack of imported beer for $2 less than at the local grocery store. (Gotta wash down the turkey and eggs with something.)
Wally-Mart isn't cheap for veggies, but for what I needed yesterday, I saved a few bucks.
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:52:51 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Consider that nearly half the people you pass on the street meet Lenin's definition of useful idiot)
To: .cnI redruM
People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart -- it has one-fifth of the nation's grocery business -- save at least 17 percent. Sounds like the Great Satan to me.
/sarc
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posted on
09/14/2006 5:52:59 AM PDT
by
freespirited
(We have met the enemy and it is Wal-Mart. ---The Democratic Party)
To: .cnI redruM
She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down because, she said, the person doing the hiring "had an attitude." .... More than 25,000 people applied for the 325 openings. Says everything that needs to be said about this woman, I think.
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09/14/2006 5:56:55 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you're going through Hell, keep on going! Don't look back ... if you're scared, don't show it!")
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To: .cnI redruM
[Walmart] has one-fifth of the nation's grocery business . . . People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart . . . save at least 17 percent . . .
The big-hearted progressives on Chicago's City Council . . . have passed a bill that . . . would [have] keep Wal-Marts from locating in the city.
Didn't I hear somewhere that it was a big scandal that poor people in inner cities pay higher prices and than people in the suburbs do?
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posted on
09/14/2006 6:06:23 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: Tiggs6
325/25,000, according to my handy number-beeber, is 1.3%.
I wonder if all 98.7% of applicants who weren't hired also think a HR flunky's "attitude" was the problem ... or is it just this particular genius.
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posted on
09/14/2006 6:08:54 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
("If you're going through Hell, keep on going! Don't look back ... if you're scared, don't show it!")
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Yeah, that sucking sound you here is $M of sales tax revenue leaving urban Chicago.
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posted on
09/14/2006 6:09:15 AM PDT
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.cnI redruM
(Tom Cruise to Pluto: Welcome to the club!)
To: Tax-chick
>>>325/25,000, according to my handy number-beeber, is 1.3%.
That tells me there were 25K people who wanted to get a decent job. We must demonize Walmart and cast them out in the darkness. Or else we might experience catastrophically higher employment.
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posted on
09/14/2006 6:11:03 AM PDT
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.cnI redruM
(Tom Cruise to Pluto: Welcome to the club!)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Didn't I hear somewhere that it was a big scandal that poor people in inner cities pay higher prices and than people in the suburbs do? Big scandal? I dunno. It's always been true. Retailers say it's to make up for the higher rate of shoplifting and vandalism, which seemed fair to me. Even when I lived in one of those neighborhoods and paid higher or drove out of town.
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posted on
09/14/2006 6:12:01 AM PDT
by
prion
(Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
To: .cnI redruM
Before they went on their bender of indignation about Wal-Mart (customers per week: 127 million), liberals had drummed McDonald's (customers per week: 175 million) out of civilized society because it is making us fat, or something. So, what next? Which preferences of ordinary Americans will liberals, in their role as national scolds, next disapprove? Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet? . . . No, it is Coca-Cola (number of servings to Americans of the company's products each week: 2.5 billion).
- Liberals complain that oil companies polute too much and don't produce enough gasoline (i.e., they charge too much for gasoline).
- They complain that automobile companies charge too much and don't pay enough, and that cars use too much gas and make too much polution and crash too frequently.
- They complain that pharmaceutical companies charge too much money and that pharmaceuticals are addictive and ineffective and that drug tests hurt small animals.
- Liberals complain that police and the military are ineffective at controling crime and violence, and that they are too brutal and that they cost too much.
Who do liberals not criticize?
- The UN.
- the State Department.
- Objective Journalism.
IOW, liberals mercilessly criticize and second guess people whose mission is to actually do things. And they are pussycats when it comes to criticizing people who don't do things but only talk.
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posted on
09/14/2006 6:30:43 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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