The latest on the promiscuous octopus and its designs on NYC.
From The Post:
Outside PS3 in Greenwich Village yesterday, representatives of various unions urged New York City parents not to shop at Wal-Mart for their back-to-school supplies.
The unions’ request was a bit odd, since — thanks to them — there is no Wal-Mart anywhere in the five boroughs.
What’s more, it was also pretty insulting, since the unions know full well that tens of thousands of working New Yorkers want a Wal-Mart here.
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“Teachers and all kinds of working people shop Wal-Mart,” Brian McLaughlin, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, acknowledged as he kicked off the rally. Why? “They don’t understand the costs.”
Apparently, in the unions’ view, though the public debate over Wal-Mart has raged for years, working Americans are just too stupid to see that the company is evil.
There’s some fun stuff about our economically illiterate City Council.
Wal-Mart The Social Equalizer
I don’t think Wal-Mart is a good capitalist at all, good corporatist maybe, but not a good capitalist. A good capitalist will charge what the free market will bare, Wal-Mart charges what will make them a profit regardless of free market forces or principles. In fact, Wal-Mart has more in common with communism that capitalism as they have a tendency to reduce everything to its lowest common denominator, disrupting and destroying capitalist market forces, equalizing capitalistic tiered pay and social structures and turning former capitalist independent entrepreneurs into common wage slaves.
They should change their slogan to
“Wal-Mart The Great Social Equalizer.”