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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 on 02/28 at 04:33 AM

  1. Promoting economically inefficient policies can help societal problems temporarily but inevitably payback time arrives. As I understand it, Detroit’s problems started when, in order to secure labor peace big auto, lead by GM gave into rioting union organizers and Roosevelt granted monopoly status to labor unions. The resulting inefficiency ultimately led to permanent industrial decline. Now Reich thinks you can do the same thing with Walmart.
    Make em provide basic healthcare and “labor standards� There is no such thing as basic health care. State and federal mandates insure that all plans provide Cadillac care. This includes such things as the latest patented drugs, acupuncture, Viagra and in some cases in vitro fertilization. Of course when Walmart has to raises prices the poor get hurt.

    Posted by  on  03/01  at  03:40 PM

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