Tommy, Can You Hear Me? All We Need is Just Another Brick in the Wal-Mart
by The Hill-Man
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posted Oct 25 2011 3:57PM
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I’m trying to figure out what Tom Menino has against Wal-Mart. The mayor told the Herald that “all of a sudden Wal-Mart has become Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes” because they want to open a location in, gasp, the city that the 86 term Mayor has convinced himself he owns. Aren’t there an awful lot of the mayor’s constituents, who find themselves without a job, who would love to be gainfully employed at a dependable chain like Wal-Mart? Aren’t there people who live and work in the cities that the mayor rules with an iron fist that would love the opportunity to save some money and shop at a Wal-Mart?
Do you think his opposition has anything to do with the fact that Wal-Mart has refused to unionize its employees around the country? What a nasty word “union” has become, huh? The unions were invented to keep 8 year old kids from working 18 hour days in sweat shops. At many times in this country’s history they have, and they still do, serve their purpose. But in dire economic times, when people are desperate for jobs, it should be a crime to prevent a company that wants to create them from doing so, for political reasons.
Ask yourself what jobs Mayor Tom Menino, or Deval Patrick for that matter, have created in these tough times? They are more than happy to throw millions of dollars at a “green” company that bolts the state for foreign lands when times get tough, but they are standing in the way of an American company that wants to come to Boston, and Somerville, and create employment opportunities?
Whether you see the value, or not, in unions, should it be an issue that stops Wal-Mart from creating jobs in a city, and an economy, that really needs them? Can we really afford to be that picky?
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