Monday, February 28, 2005

"Always Low Prices"

Erroneously blaming WalMart for consumer choices…

Two recent pieces regarding retail behemoth WalMart caught my eye in the past 23 hours.

First, Karen DeCoster deftly reviews those individuals wailing to keep WalMart out of Detroit in a piece titled “Republicans Against Wal-Mart/Getting it Wrong on Detroit." Karen’s summation.

"It is, in fact, the chain retail and grocery giants that will perhaps save Detroit, but sure as heck not ruin it."

Now, compare DeCoster’s remarks, with Robert B. Reich’s, as published in The New York Times, in a piece titled “Don’t Blame Wal-Mart." The title of the piece could almost lead an individual to think that Reich is in favor of free consumer choice and business, also, until one reads this.

"The only way for the workers or citizens in us to trump the consumers in us is through laws and regulations that make our purchases a social choice as well as a personal one."

Always that ridiculous call for the “workers” and “citizens” to unite in a glorious, and utopian, worker/citizen paradise to “trump” our supposed base instincts of bettering our own personal situations.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/28 at 04:33 AM
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Please Don't Feed The Animals

Unforntunately, they’re not endangered…

I like the following headline.

“Cage for beast Saddam"

It’s quite apropos.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/28 at 04:26 AM
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