D.C. Anti-Walmart Protesters Plan March on Developer‘s Home With ’Target’ Flyer
- Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:19am by
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A group of Washington, D.C. protesters upset about the possibility of a Walmart store coming to their area is hoping to send the potential developer of the proposed store a message. So much so that they‘re planning to march to and protest at the developer’s personal residence. The group has even gone as far as to circulate the man’s home address.
The group is called Wal-Mart Free D.C. and describes itself as “a group of DC residents who have come together to say NO to Wal-Mart.” In order to make its point, a flyer on the group‘s website say it’s organizing a march to harass the potential developer — Dick Knapp of Foulger-Pratt Development (the company has yet to sign a contract with Walmar)t. The flyer sets the march for Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and includes Knapp’s address.
But the address may not be the flyer’s only controversial element. Ironically, it also contains a target symbol — a similar picture to the one seen on a district map created by Sarah Palin and that’s sparked outrage from the left in the wake of the shootings in Tucson. And what‘s worrying is that the group’s symbol is connected to specific event at a private residence:
This isn’t, however, the first time the group has protested at Knapp’s home. The group staged a similar demonstration on December 16. Video of the event shows police were present in order to maintain order. And while officers did step in to mitigate one disturbance, no major incidents were reported. The event video, posted on the site LiveLeak, shows the protesters chanting with bull horns and marching with signs as they blast Walmart and Knapp:
A similar protest from this past summer, however, raises concerns about the organization’s tactics.
Last May, a group of picketers from the SEIU showed up at the home of Bank of America executive Greg Baer. The only one home at the time of the protest, however, was Baer’s teenage son. The boy was so frightened by those shouting outside, he locked himself in the bathroom until his dad returned home (where Baer had to fight his way through the crowd) to comfort him.
Baer’s neighbor Nina Easton recounted the event for Fortune magazine, and said the group crossed the line:
Now this event would accurately be called a “protest” if it were taking place at, say, a bank or the U.S. Capitol. But when hundreds of loud and angry strangers are descending on your family, your children, and your home, a more apt description of this assemblage would be “mob.” Intimidation was the whole point of this exercise, and it worked-even on the police. A trio of officers who belatedly answered our calls confessed a fear that arrests might “incite” these trespassers. [Emphasis added]
After initial contact with a spokesperson for Wal-Mart Free DC, the group did not answer The Blaze’s questions regarding their position and the protest. Knapp also did not return our request for comment.
The Walmart, which has not been finalized, would be built north of the U.S. Capitol building near the intersection of Georgia Ave. and Missouri Ave. in the city’s fourth ward.
Is Walmart good or bad for the community?
“We are not interested in negotiating the terms of Wal-Mart’s arrival,” Wal-Mart Free DC says on its site’s “about” section. “We know the harmful impact that Wal-Mart always has, from thousands of case studies around the country, and around the world. We believe in our hearts, and in our minds, that DC must continue to be Wal-Mart Free.”
Despite claims that Walmart destroys communities, however, the group cites no specific studies or examples. And the group spokesperson did not respond to a request for such material.
An official website from Walmart set up to inform the community takes an understandably different position. It touts the job opportunities as well as the economic development the stores can bring to an area.
“Bringing Walmart to Washington, D.C. would increase tax revenues for the city and offer residents the affordable prices and job opportunities that come with each new store,” the website Walmartwashingtondc.com says.
At least one city official agrees. D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5) has been on the D.C. Council since 2007 and became chairman of the economic development committee this month. In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, he explained why he supports a Walmart coming to his district (the retail chain is proposing four total throughout the D.C. metro area).
Thomas believes a single Walmart-anchored development could bring up to 1,200 jobs, and says the idea of bringing the retailer into D.C. makes sense.
“I think I’m most supportive because I think it represents a total private investment of a corporation coming here,” he told the Post. “Here‘s an opportunity where we’re taking no city dollars and trying to create industry.”
And according to videos posted on the Walmartwashingtondc.com site, there D.C. residents who believe the same thing:
Still, there are those who don’t. And a number of them will be at Dick Knapp’s house on Thursday.
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Comments (211)
MikeinIdaho
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:23amFunny how the leftist elites don’t want WalMart but the residents of DC do. Just more marxists keeping the serfs poor and beholden to “The Man”!
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:47amYes because I would much rather have a promising career at Wal-Mart than to start my own business. Did you say something about poor serfs…?
Report Post »JRntEwing
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:20amOne wonders about the ramifications of coming out to sit on the porch with a 12 gauge while the leaders pontificated to the mob. Not brandishing, maybe just polishing while pointed in a safe direction. Wouldn’t that be interesting in someplace with a “castle” law? Somehow I doubt that DC has one.
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:09amShotgun shells loaded with rock salt instead of shot have been effective on trespassers for decades. I’ve heard dried soybeans are good as well. Non-lethal and stings like heck. And it would be trespassing if they came on your property, you went out, asked them to leave and they didn’t. Of course I realize it is D.C. and that wouldn’t wash there like it will where I live. Still, it would be worth it to me to sit in jail for a few months just to to have the satisfaction of watching them scatter.
Report Post »MCAinSTL
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:03pmGood idea, except the People‘s Republic of DC dosen’t allow firearms for self defense.
He could take a page out of union protesters in Europe and use a Molotov cocktail instead. Gives a larger pattern, but you lose a little in range.
P.S. To all who are commenting about Walmart. This is more about union thuggery at a private individual’s house, not Walmart’s practices. I will go shopping at Walmart tomorrow to protest the idiot protesters.
Report Post »1911a1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:20amanother fine example of anti- capitalist free market hating Unions , ALL the unions need to be disbanded , they are a hideous cancer we must cut out of our country !
Report Post »leader30m
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:18amIf you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a
Report Post »> great test!
>
> If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
> If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
>
> If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
> If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for
> everyone.
>
> If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his
> situation.
> A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
>
> If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
> Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
>
> If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
> A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
> (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)
>
> If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping
> for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
> A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
walker1812
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:15amIf you want to see what a walmart can do for a community come my town. People come from all over to shop and the great beautiful downtown district is thriving. Union thugs are real a-holes that ruin business. My wife retired from walmart after working there for 23 years. She has a few hundred thousand dollars in wmt stock and a huge ira from her profit sharing and 401k. She just bought her retirement car…a 2011 mustang convertible. She never had to pay union dues to crooked union bosses who don’t give a damn about the people they supposedly represent. Screw unions!
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:14amWhen we lived in the small city of Woodland Wa, there was a “minority” of people who kept trying to block Walmart from coming in. We needed a place to shop and had to drive miles to get a good deal. The Safeway and other stores in town charged very high prices and the majority of the people got sick and tired of this handful of people trying to stop it. The mayor of Woodland was a corrupt man, having a “good ol boys” club and yes men to surround him. My husband had his job terminated because he would not go along with the corrupt mayor. This was a blessing in disguise because he did end up getting a way better job because Woodland grossly underpaid him anyhow. Woodland is what you call a “funkytown”. For a small town, it has bad drug problems with a poor police department that I think were paid off. For a small town, has it’s ghetto area. The good news is that Walmart has come in finally and is opening this next month. It produced new jobs and lots for the community of Woodland that it badly needed. I don’t care about the mom and pop stores in Woodland because they charged too much money and in my opinion, deserve to go out of business. Walmart was fantastic when Katrina happened, opening it’s doors and handing out thousands of dollars in what the public needed for free. WalMart benefits the community in many ways. People complain that things are made in China but ever single business does that. They always want to single out Walmart. The minority and the good ol boys don’t rule in Woodland anymore. I am still glad we left that slum town.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:06amOh my God! They are using a target with cross hairs. Hate speech.
Report Post »Kid Charlemagne
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:12amYou do realize its over a fake smiley face effigy and not a real person right?
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:59amIt makes no difference. Its violence towards smiley faces. Oh the humanity.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:58amKid Charlemagne, relax, he was just being flippant. Unfortunately, some who accused Sarah Palin, and her crosshair map, were not. The vitriol coming from some was amazing. Using that same logic, the map the Democrats used with the bull’s-eyes on it could be help to the same ridiculous standard. Culpability lies with the idiot who pulled the trigger and no one else. No need to make excuses for him.
Report Post »OH, I Get It!
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:04amThe protesters have the right to shop (at the multiple stores it will take to have all the merchandise WalMart stocks in one store), then pay more for it. YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO KEEP THEM OUT!
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:28ambut they do have the right to protest it. and in fact depending on zoning rules they may indeed have the right to keep walmart out, i dont know what kind of zoning restrictions there are in dc though
Report Post »warloch
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:03amWhat I do not understand is why these commi union goons who all shop at Wal Mart would not want one closer to their homes? Oh waite a minute I just realized that these commi union goons do not live near this proposed development they were bused in because Wal Mart, the US distributer of China’s toxic childrens toys meant to destroy future generations of Americans, does not like unions.
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:58amdes·pot (dspt)
n.
1. A ruler with absolute power.
2. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.
3.
a. A Byzantine emperor or prince.
b. An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch.
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[French despote, from Medieval Latin despota, from Greek despots, master; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]
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des·potic (d-sptk) adj.
Report Post »des·poti·cal·ly adv.
chips1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:29pmDes pot= des is where I pee.
Report Post »Bullcop34
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:54amMr Knapp, just make sure you remember to tell the responding police officers that you were in fear for your life and the lives of your family……
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:52amWho cares about the target. Get away from this man’s house. HAVE SOME RESPECT. I know that is hard for groups like this. But if this group feels the need to protest, then go to his company’s office.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:57amJCoolman, you’re dead-on. Good post! Please pardon my “violent rhetoric” in using the word “dead”.
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:50amCan we call them this DESPOTS I read it on an article that said maybe them and the 111 th congress should recieve this new name.
Report Post »Hayeksheroes
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:48amWhat do we want? High prices.
Report Post »When do we want it? Now.
psst
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:17amGood One.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:45amI believe that if one was to dig deep enough they would find that the driving force behind this “protest” is being driven by the unions. The other are just businesses that cannot compete. If Walmart was so bad then they would not be able to stay in business. There is a thing called competition. Can’t compete, then try to regulate and prevent the competition from coming into the area. Don’t consider making the changes needed to become competitive. As to going to these peoples homes to protest, it just shows that these people have no boundaries and are willing to go to any lengths to push their agenda.
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:56amEver hear of economies of scale? Just a handful of businesses with sufficient capital benefit from it. Anyone else is S.O.L. because no one will buy small-business toiletpaper at $1 a roll when Wal-Mart can make and sell enough of it to profit at 50 cents.
Report Post »Ser Scot
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:44amI don’t shop a Wal-Mart. I don’t care for their business practices. I’d encourage others to not shop there.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:54amYou realize then that you are subsidizing union workers by paying higher prices. That’s your choice, I would rather keep my earnings for my families benefit.
Stock boys and girls don’t deserve higher pay. The service/value they provide doesn‘t warrant it and it’s not my responsibility to provide them with a certain standard of living.
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civilunrestnow
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:06amThat’s nice Ser Scot but many many of us do…I’m glad you can afford to pay more elsewhere but I cannot. While you are busy with your high priced boycott why don’t you pay my portion of the up and coming tax increases as well..
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:35am@civilunrest
Report Post »what tax increases?
Ser Scot
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:45pmAs some point out it’s my choice to spend my money where I believe it should go. You are free to shop where you like I simply hope and encourage you to shop at other stores with more small capitalist business practices.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:41amA Target?!? Avert your eyes!!! When will the angry rhetoric end?!?
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:45amyeah yeah, its getting old. Heard it through my 30min commute to work this morning. Good to know Beck is ‘informing’ his followers though with constant mocking.
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:41amWonder if anyone will put out an online petition to indict them for inciting violence the way an American ex-pat did against Sarah Palin.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/american-expatriate-starts-petition-to-indict-sarah-palin-for-inciting-violence
Report Post »Playdoh76
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:37amChina has surpassed us w/super computers,military,and exports
Report Post »Hugie 59 PA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:21amAfter Bill Clinton sold them our technology! But have no fear, we will continue to think outside the box and develop smarter and smarter computers. Incidently, America when reporting its stats on education reports averages and unlike other countries we do not deprive lower achieving students from entering college. The result is a larger sample pool with more diverse grades which results in the United States’s averages to be lower than the 7 other countries you cite. But it must be noted that America‘s brightest are superior to any other country’s top students. Look at MIT for example.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:35amI guess all these wealthy elitisits don’t need jobs or tax revenue in the DC area……oh, thats right, Nanny takes care of them now just fine….
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:30amNo Walmart in our community….that might mean jobs, and none of us wants to work…..we want welfare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That about sums it up.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:28amMore job-killing, violent “dog whistle” rhetoric from the left …
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:31amjob-killing… or small-business killing? The only people protesting the development of a new Super-WalMart in my area are the small business owners. Of course if you dont mind homogenized conusmer products/labels…I thought you all were for the individual? I love driving down the highway and seeing the same Kohls/Appleees/Wal-Mart/Ross/McDonalds every 15 miles or so. I bet the small businesses love them too.
Report Post »clinicalminded
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:27amI would much rather pay too much money for something while some idiot with an attitude huffs and puffs while they act like they don’t have the product I am looking for when I bother them on their state mandated break.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:26amThese Union people are out of control! These are nothing more than bullies be controled by their puppet masters.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:36amGEW
I agree…so when are WE THE PEOPLE going to stand up against them when they come against us? That’s the $64 question no one is willing to answer…Not dumping on you…just asking… FYI – Most people I speak with believe the only hope we have are our politicians. The people taking it upon themselves does not even seem to be an option in their mind.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:42pmIF they ever did get union workers in Wal-Mart that is the day I WILL stop shopping there. Unions stiffle the ability of those willing to work the extra to get ahead .. at Wal-Mart now you can start out in a low position and work your way up .. the UNION kills productivity.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:00pmThis is all about one thing : Walmart is non union , that’s all .
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:02amYes the union thugs are a bunch of criminals, kinda like the mafia. Not much difference except the union thugs are always getting away with this crap. Throw them in jail where they belong.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:24amThese people are fools of the highest order. Our community had a chance for a Walmart here twelve years ago and voted it down. A neighboring community got it, and now, all the businesses are in that community, and people are moving away from ours.
If only we had a free market we could easily resolve this dilemma. But there’s too much government oversight into our income, our sales, our employment, that it is killing the economy and uneducated people are fighting each other over the remaining scraps.
No wonder other nations are surpassing us in EVERY way.
Report Post »Kid Charlemagne
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:25amin what way have other nations surpassed us?
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:28amThis is another tactic of the union. They hate Walmart because they won’t unionize. Of course they won’t, they would no longer be offer the same pricing. Look at the auto industry. The UAW came out this week demanding that foreign auto makers unionize. They set a date for this to be finalized. Just wait for the marches on this one. The union motto is if you can’t beat them………..beat them up. It’s going to be an ugly year with the unions, especially when they take it to an individual citizen’s home.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – political news and humor.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:29amWoW
…Im back in the USSR
you dont know how lucky you are boys
back in the USSR…..
Report Post »Muslim in Chief
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:38amI can only wonder if the Left leaning Lame stream media will cover this as hate speech. I can’t help but notice the crosshairs in the flyer.
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:43amAnother union backed attack on capitalism. Wal Mart refuses to unionize and the thugs will try their best to bully them into compliance. Its disgraceful and should be reported by the main stream media, but they are too busy reporting on the evil Sarah Palin and the upcoming Royal wedding.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:43amI can‘t believe they wouldn’t want a Wal Mart in D.C., haven’t they heard Wal Mart will take welfare checks and food stamps. I smell ACORN or some other org trying to shakedown Wal Mart.
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:43amJust added another log to the bonfire of leftist hypocrisy…..
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:45am@Benrush
Perfect comment, I could not have expressed it better myself.
If I were the owner of Wal Mart and faced daily “no no no!” by the masses and law day in and day out, I’d simply close all of the stores and have a sign posted outside of all of them with “Gone fishing” and liquidate the company immediately.
People hate economic freedom, until they no longer get to reap the benefits of it.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:50amKid Charlemagne, education.
Report Post »Kid Charlemagne
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:57amTexas commonsense – the U.S. has trailed the same 7 countries in math and science for the past 15 years. Though there has been some variance in that time, the same countries ahead in 1995 are the same ones ahead of us now.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:07amThese people have placed a target for hunting over the Wal-Mart decal, and no one on the left is out screaming about how violent these protesters are? Once again, we see the unions and the left are using people via manipulation, anger, and outright hypocrisy in their agenda of lies, lies, and more lies across the land.
Then again, to the left and the progressives, we are nothing more than baying sheep.
Report Post »Neil Mariner
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:15amDah! Manufactureing jobs for us low level thinkers and doers. Better known as the middle class. How many desk jockys do we need in this country? The only people making money now are those selling suits and ties.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:20amOne question,,,is the Walmart rep going to defend himself, his family and his property….or are they just going to huddle in the house and fear for their safety. I quarantee you this has everything to do with unions thugs against Big business and nothing to with the building of the Walmart in the area. MARK IT DOWN…..When the HENCHMAN for these organizations come against you IF YOU BLINK they win. When will it stop…when the people stand up and defend themselves. So long as WE THE PEOPLE are worried about being labeled an extremist or put in jail then we will cease to act. Its up to us….time is runing out…
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:45amWal Mart is good for any community it has ever opened in. The anti Wal Mart groups are mainly mislead, misguided, weak minded, and lied to Americans who are being used as tools by Unions and corporate hating Progressives who’s desire is to control and socialize most major business activities in the nation.
I worked for Wal Mart back in 2000 and they are a great company. I watched them come into a town in Oregon and save it from the rescission by providing jobs and hope to over 200 people in the community. I watch as they provided products at a price people could afford.helping them keep their standard of living. Those attacking Wal Mart can never answer any question why the oppose the store without reverting to lies, distortions, and propaganda that can be traced back to anti business and pro Union groups.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:10amCan you imagine how many Wal-Marts would be in DC right now if they were unionized? They’d be pushing for one to go in every 10 blocks.
Report Post »Firefight
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:12amDon’t you guys see the hypocrisy here? On one story many of you are complaining about buying goods from china then prop up a corporation that is leading the charge. How many of you question what happened to the America I knew? The “mom and pop” stores? They have closed many small businesses while employing minimal low wage employees. sure you get a better price and that is good but at what cost. now many communities are dependent on that store. if they closed it would utterly destroy them. Don’t you realize that Big Business/Big Banks/Big Brother are one and the same. you have been tricked into thinking it is about capitalism but it is about control. have you not heard about the DHS videos playing on the monitors at the Walmart checkout? Big Sis is smiling down telling you to watch your neighbor “If you see something say something”.
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Cobra Blue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:13amDid I miss it but did they detain the protestors due to the violent rhetoric and the target symbol on the flyer? Oh….I’m sorry…Silly me…these folks are members of the union so they are exempt from hate crimes legislation, terrorists threats…basically the law in general….OK
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:21amDC is gun free and Walmart free… must be heaven on earth, right???
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:21amPeople who stock shelves for a living don’t deserve higher pay. The value they provide does not warrant higher pay. If you want a higher wage, improve your skills.
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ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:22amSO its here! We finally have seceded control to the mobs of union thugs to raise cain on somebodys front lawn and the police are fearful to make arrests. This fear and lack of any action will embolden these hate filled thugs and the people of the good neighborhood could very well experience daylight break in’s of their homes while all this mayhem ensues in the streets. Can anybody say, rape, robbery and murder with prejudice? I hope it doesn’t go that far.
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:31am@neil
walmart provides manufacturing jobs?! yeah if you live in china or southeast asia.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:39amKid Charlemagne, your name suggests you might be a fan of LSD. That stuff will fry your brain, man. Any chance you own a Technicolor motor home? LOL!
Report Post »Soldier4Christ
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:47amBenrush, you are absolutely correct. I have seen Wal-Mart improve towns dramatically. People who dislike Wal-Mart are most likely anti-America. It is a great company. I am a small business owner and it has done nothing but benefited me by having more people around my business. Besides Sam’s club is the best distributor that any small business owner could ever ask for.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:54amMore hate from the Pro-Union .. anti-Business .. LEFT … the hate— the rhetoric .. the HYPOCRISY!!! … those on the right are told to shut up … and yet this REAL VIOLENCE is continueing from the left … I don’t want to “shut” anyone up .. BUT going to someones home is OUT OF BOUNDS. They should be arrested!
Report Post »Firefight
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:55am@IRONMAN Not everyone who stocks shelves is unskilled. and I don’t think anyone deserves anything. you earn it. when I said minimal low wage employees it was to emphasize the fact that they are not helping to prop up a community with those kind of jobs. they can only afford to shop there furthering the cycle. I know someone who was a LT. in the army, A Ranger no less, who also had a bachelors and he stocked shelves at Walmart. Why? because that was the only available job at the time. He moved and got a better job. some people do what they have to for a time. If you live in a community that hasn’t been hurt by Walmart, Awesome good for you! But don’t look down your nose at someone and assume they are un-skilled because of there current job.
Report Post »VTDave
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:03pm@Firefight
Report Post »How much of this influx of Chinese goods can be attributed to the unions unsatiable appetite for over-the-top pay and out of control benefit packages? Now, we are faced with an administration that is all too happy to take over the pension liabilities of these unions that still, to this day, refuse to acknowledge that enough is enough. Also, these same unions are going over seas to organize foreign workers. Haven’t they done enough damage?
firstlast
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:25pmThank you FIREFIGHT! I glad someone sees the hypocrisy
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:40pmUnions have little if anything to with influx of chinese goods. the main factor was the massive deregulation of trade policy started to a small degree by Nixon then accelerated under Reagan and continued through today which allowed American corporations to move offshore and acquire/produce their goods in foreign factories. its funny reagan is the rights hero, yet this country operated under an era of general prosperity for 50-60 years during the heighth of union labor from 1920-1980 and you somehow cant make the connection between the decline of the US job market/ economy and the policies of the reagan administration. if it is indeed unions/regulations that have caused the decline as you would suggest, then why did the decline begin during a time of massive deregulation and the dismantling of the unions?
Report Post »Firefight
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:44pm@VTDave I agree 100% but one thing you guys who are sticking up for walmart have to see is they are not always good for a community and they do not have America in their best interest. And as someone above said anti Walmart is anti American… Really? sounds like someone is drinking kollaid from Walmart. here is a story for you. A small town in north FL gets a Super Walmart and everything is great! people save about $10 – $20 on their grocery bill. not long and two of the local grocery stores close. Then a fruit stand and farmers market. Mc Donald’s BK and Taco Bell show up and (usually not far from any walmart) and the local diners start taking a big hit and before long they are closed. what is good for one Town is not good for others and if those people unite and keep them out to try and preserve what is left of their small town I say good for them. Remember Glenn Beck’s story about Mt. Vernon dying because of the mall coming in and his family trying to do something to stop the decay? same concept except without the great name WALMART.
Report Post »Firefight
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:47pm@GnomeChomsky unions play a role because they keep the cost of American goods very high. So if you want cheap you go to china. but you also are right about trade.
Report Post »docvet
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:19pmCNSRVTV – You very likely have a good point. Additionaly, it is harder to stay on welfare and/or unemployment when 200-300 unskilled jobs are available in your neighborhood (sorry Cloward & Piven).
Report Post »rubintheartist
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:22pmHey everybody….. we‘ve got to Buy American and walmart won’t be an economic problem anymore. Shouldn’t it be renamed China-Mart???? The dems want to kill your job to put you under thier control. Watch this new animated video, laugh and get your power back. http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:13pmYou cant reason with people like this all they understand is mob rule i just hope that nothing bad happens. We will now see just what kind of help he gets from the police in this case, lets see they have a few days warning that this march is going to happen, so lets hope that they have more man power on sight then the police did at the B of A bankers house to protect this man and his family.
Report Post »Sam I am
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:03pmUnion thuggery.
Will the MSM call them on it?
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AmericanSoldier
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:11pm@FIREFIGHT So should the LT have been unemployed rather than work at Walmart? I’m sure he appreciated the opportunity to have a paycheck even if it was minimum wage. Otherwise, he would have been making $0 an hour at home.
I’m not a big fan of big corporations and I only shop at Walmart occasionally, but I think the huge outrage against them is too much. Do I believe we should return manufacturing back to America? Absolutely. It‘s not Walmart’s fault that it’s cheaper to go to China. It’s our fault and our politicians fault. Ours for electing those politicians. We cannot bring back manufacturing to this country until there’s dramatic changes. Do people believe that Walmart outsources to China out of spite? No, it’s out of reasonable business financial reasons. If they could have the same or better product made right down the road, where they could have better quality control over the item and still have the same prices, they’d do it in a heart beat.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:16pmWow, things must really be different in D.C. In my city, a developer would have to go to the Planning Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals and have at least three or four public hearing before he could even pull a building permit or arrange financing.
If the various commissions and boards turn the developer down, they either go somewhere else or abandon the project because it gets too expensive.
However, terrorizing a family in their home? I agree with the neighbor who said that it sounds like a mob.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:57pmWhy are they protesting? With the SEIU lawyer at NLRB issuing regulations creating card check it will be very easy to unionize WalMart. They can intemidate any that vote agaist it because the ballot will not be secret. You must sign your ballot card and they definately know where you live.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:01pmTO: Americansoldier. Mfg will never come back to this country! China bought up all the machine tools and moved them to China. Even if labor got cheap we would not have the tools to produce or the money to buy the tools. We do not even have the necessar machinest skills to build the tools any more. All gone! Every one flips hamburgers now. No skill needed.
Report Post »Firefight
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:42pm@AmericanSoldier He was glad to have a job. I was using him as an example because Ironman implied that all stockers at walmart are unskilled. Their responsibility is to their share holders. It is not their fault that everything is made in china but given a choice between the same products manufactured here they still choose china because of greed. Capitalism is great, free market is essential. I am anti union. To paint Walmart as being as American as apple pie or to say anti-Walmart is anti- American is extreme. Just being anti-union does not make you the best choice. They pay low wages, employ illegals, poor benefits, (not that I think people are entitled to anything) I could go on and on. I have shopped there and there are benefits but I am saying they have done more harm than good or at the very least do not deserve to be spoken of as if they the cornerstone of American values. The unions protesting at peoples homes is out of line. The unions are destroying America but don’t think that shopping at walmart is a sign of patriotism. That’s insane. Oh and not one person said a THING about the homeland security thing with Napolitano asking people to spy on neighbors and report it. Is that a good American value?
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:34pmYes, these people are the lowest of the low and should be arrested and thrown in jail. It is unfortunate that these mobs can get away with this crap. Sadly though, Wal-Mart is just a Chinese convenience store selling mostly Chinese made goods. Lately I have been trying the buy US made goods,which is very difficult, so I don’t shop at wal mart. Of course Chinese products are everywhere and we must resist and demand US products. Sounds good but good luck.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:12pmIf anyone get’s shot and killed within a 2 block area during any of these protests, the protestors should be arrested and blamed for inciting violence with their hateful rhetoric.
About 5 years ago we had a Wal-Mart fiasco near where I live. I will make it as short as possible…
Wal-Mart found a place to build across the road from a Lowe’s. Half of the property they would need was a privately owned mobile home park. The local tree-hugging marxists went from one trailer to the next telling the people they could get mucho denero for moving expenses from Wal-Mart if they would all sign a piece of paper. Some 80 hispanic homeowners and renters in the trailer park signed the document. The document was bribery. It stated that if Wal-Mart bought the property from the owner of the park that Wal-Mart would have to pay every owner or renter $15,000 dollars for moving expenses. It was not a legally binding document but it brought the entire affair to the medias attention. Then came all the protests how Wal-Mart wants to put the poor hispanics on the streets with their new born babies, blah, blah, blah. Wal-Mart held a meeting in conjunction with County Commisioners and the local marxists organized damn near every hispanic within a 50 mile radius and of course every left wing org in the area. And where I live there is a lot of them!
The Wal-Mart reps had to be escorted out by police for fear of major violence. The county ended up condemning the trailer park to make way for the sale of the property to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart made an offer of some $12,000 to each resident in the park. When that didn’t please the marxists they started making other demands of Wal-Mart and trying to find reasons to try and tie them up in court. Meanwhile the property was sold to Wal-Mart and people that lived there had 60 says to move. Once the 60 day clock started all sorts of tricks were used by the local Marxists. The clincher was when they demanded Wal-Mart build side-walks from all directions for pedestrian traffic. Wal-Mart actually agreed to fund side-walks being built up to so many yards from the store. The Marxists kept increasing the distance until it got to apoint where they wanted Wal-Mart to build side-walks up to 1.5 miles from the store. Wal-Mart had had enough. The following week the county was informed that Wal-Mart had changed their minds. The local marxists were jubilant.
In the meantime, people were starting to move, or try to move their trailers out of the park. Since Wal-Mart was no longer developing the property they said they could not pay for the moves. Now all these poor hispanics were suddenly in a tight spot. The county had given them 60 days and close to 40 had already gone by. Now they had 20 days to move and no check from Wal-Mart. Many stories of hard times were reported for months over this ordeal, but what really pissed off many in my area was… THOSE VERY SAME LOCAL MARXISTS DIDN’T LIFT A FINGER TO HELP THE POOR HISPANICS THEY USED IN THEIR FIGHT TO DEFEAT WAL-MART. Someone at a local flea market had bumper stickers made up in Spanish that basically said… “I hate ”F“n Hippies” and were seen all over town for awhile.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:15pmKid Charlemagne, you need to recheck your info on the CIA World Fact-Book site.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:21pmFirefight, I see no hypocrisy. Most of us still believe in Capitalism and it just so happens so does Wal-Mart. If you can sell Wal-Mart a product that they can make money off of they will buy American. And if people don’t want to buy from China they can simply look for “Made in Bali” stickers or whatever. It’s called FREEDOM OF CHOICE!
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:25pmGnomeChomsky
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:40pm
“Unions have little if anything to with influx of chinese goods.”
I suppose you believe in the tooth-fairy too.
Report Post »Firefight
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 12:05am@click4cheapandeasyweb I do believe in capitalism but if it governed by morality not the “how can I make the biggest profit regardless where it comes from”. If you complain about china taking American manufacturing then defend a company that buys the vast majority of its goods from there that is hypocritical. So keep propping up this this company that is encouraging you to spy on your neighbors poisoning you with Chinese products and hiring illegal aliens. So feel free, after all it is your free choice to make I choose not to. I would rather spend an extra $10 on my groceries and buy local. Your story is interesting and one thing jumped out at me you seem to be strongly against Marxism (as am I) however you are defending a company that sends BILLIONS upon BILLIONS to CHINA hate to break it to you but they are communist. Hypocritical?
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 1:46amthe next time a shooting happens at walmart we should blame the unions and spin this game back on them. unions will have more blood on their hands, dont know how their hands could get any more bloodier seeing as they are already saturated from all the union intimidation/violence…
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:43pmHoly mother goose! The violent rhetoric! Make it stop! Make it stoooop!
Report Post »prickett_smiles
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:56amAtlas Shrugged a novel by Ayn Rand
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