[steelcurtain]

The Green Party also says the likelihood that downtown areas will recover after a Wal-Mart comes to town are slim, the group says the average job pays about $7 or $8 an hour, not enough to provide for a family, and on that kind of wage, you can not afford health insurance.

If the Greenies don't want people working at Wal-Mart, maybe they should consider building new factories to replace the steel mills that have laid off so many of the unemployed people of the Ohio Valley who now are lining up eagerly and willingly to apply for those Wal-Mart jobs. No, wait, we can't have factories or steel mills - too much air pollution. Never mind!

[mdmathis6]

The local Walmart jobs here in Midlothian start around 10 to 11 an hour(the cola is a little higher here), still 7 or 8 doesn't sound right any more. I think the groups are shaving the truth just a bit!