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Wal-Mart: The D.C. Council has forced our hand
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| By Alex Barron, Tuesday, July 9, 3:13 PM
Posted on 07/09/2013 1:33:08 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: T-Bird45
In addition to the IQ standard, it’s also required that you have no morals or ethics so that you can take payola or rob from DC funds set aside for children’s programs.
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posted on
07/09/2013 1:59:59 PM PDT
by
USNA74
To: Roccus
Guessin some Council members feel they didnt get enough grease from Wally World. Yep. The term for this is "shakedown".
To: Perdogg
My advice to Walmart is to close down the building of the stores they are working on and get out.
I remember Hechingers. The theft there by employees was so great you could buy tools and other things on the street with the Hechinger price still on it. That didn’t count what the customers were stealing.
Sears left DC except for West of the park. Up near Chevy Chase. When you hire in DC remember, what you see is what you get.
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:12:40 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Dilbert San Diego
well, theoretically, numerous unemployed black youth in the District will be applying for these jobs.The self-esteem they've been indoctrinated with won't allow them to accept anything less than a $200K executive position. To offer them anything lower would be disrespectful.
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:13:31 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: GraceG
Find golden goose. Kill golden goose. Eat Golden Goose. Wake up the next morning and complain there are no eggs to eat..... Almost.
Steal golden goose. Kill golden goose. Eat Golden Goose.
Wake up the next AFTERNOON, and complain that there are no eggs to eat, and no more Golden Geese to steal.
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:15:11 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
To: WayneS
Why would Wal-Mart want to open stores in that hell-hole?
Went to D.C. in March for the first time in twenty years. Not the same hellhole I remembered. Money is literally bubbling up through cracks in the sidewalks in that town. It is gentrifying at a fantastic rate (causing Black Democrat pols to whine about losing their "chocolate city"). The underclass is being driven out to the inner-ring Maryland suburbs.
To: Perdogg
I hope Wal-Mart pulls out of DC and fast......
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:36:39 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(If conservatives in America were committed to liberty they would Cairo DC!)
To: Perdogg
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:47:00 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: All
The DC gubmint did something along these lines with Jack Kent Cook and the Redskins. They wanted to build a new stadium in DC and they just wanted to get all the BS out of the way but the council kept coming back with more and more “sudden zoning” issues and conditions like planning not to “obstruct a view”.. He just told them to go pound sand and built in MD. Now Snyder is practically printing his own money just across the border and the DC people are suddenly opposed to the name of the Redskins.
Now, after Walmart has already broken ground, they change the rules. I’d stop, take the loss and leave a big sign stating why they won’t build there and walk away.
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:47:21 PM PDT
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: Perdogg
The obvious reply is to stop ALL work, immediately, on the stores under construction, and put all activity on hold.
If the vote passes, end all contracts, pull all items of any value out of the sites. . .
And then release a rumor that George Zimmerman has a hideout in one of the buildings.
The DC “yutes” will take it from there, Wal-Mart gets an insurance payout. . . .and DC gets three empty lots full of wreckage. . .
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posted on
07/09/2013 2:52:43 PM PDT
by
Salgak
(http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
To: Perdogg
regardless of wages, such a store would be theived out of business in a couple months.
To: T-Bird45
“Whats the requirement to be on the DC Council “
I believe it’s helpful to have been convicted and served time for crack cocaine several times, and maybe an embezzlement charge or two. You know. For street cred. Oh, and you also have to be black. And a commie. Oops, I mean Democrat. OK, either a commie OR Democrat. Or both.
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posted on
07/09/2013 3:47:12 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Gaffer
I dont see any of this that will keep me from buying at Walmart, either.
here is a sad story... just outside of Hbg PA there was a Catholic Church and school. The parish had a nice sized parcel of property and WM offered to buy it (above market value for the time) and help the parish move the church and school.
Then the local government and a bunch of citizens coalitions stepped in and fought it. WM finally gave up and never built in that local TWP/municipal environs ever.
Mostly I think the twp and "interested" citizens screwed it up to tank the sale cause it was a Catholic school. Good parish, decent school (my daughter attended there, went to PITT and eventually ended up in the NROTC and is still currently serving!)
Local municipalities really for the most part suck in central PA. It is like a bunch of fiefdoms only out for themselves to try to keep things "as they always were".
So they lost all the tax revenue and jobs to keep things the exact ways they remember from 50 years ago. Real Stupid.
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posted on
07/09/2013 4:08:56 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS... We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dems care!)
To: Perdogg
They should cut their losses and leave. There are a bunch of Walmarts within striking distance of DC in Virginia and Maryland. If people want to shop there, they can drive a few minutes out of the city and find one. If they don’t want to shop there, they can stick with places such as the Soviet Safeway on Capital Hill and the Social Safeway over in Georgetown. Or they can drive to the Pentagon, keep going South for a mile or so and hit Shoppers Food Warehouse and Target. All the otherwise unemployable people who thought they might get a job at the new Walmarts can just pound sand, I guess.
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posted on
07/09/2013 4:30:05 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: T-Bird45
Whats the requirement to be on the DC Council an IQ of about 75 is about all I can believe You're being generous.
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posted on
07/09/2013 4:45:31 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(The imposition of a duty on the importation of a commodity burdens the consumers. --Ludwig Von Mises)
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