The no job policy

Liberals from such blue states as Maryland and Illinois have lately decided that WalMart doesn't pay enough to push union wages up artificially so they are trying to force them up with idiotic laws. In Maryland they tried to construct a law which would force WalMart to pay more for health insurance, but it was batted down by the courts since it was only aimed at WalMart.

More recently the city of Chicago has tried to force WalMart to pay not what the job was worth but what they thought a person should make according to his lifestyle and size of family. When WalMart was told of these new rules they built a store two blocks away from Chicago in Evergreen Park and there were 10,000 applicants for 350 jobs. Now Evergreen Park gets the tax revenue from the store, but Chicago is not through by any means. Liberal democrats on the Chicago City Council recently voted 35-14 to force stores 90,000 square feet or larger to pay workers what their lifestyle requires....not what the labor is worth. As a result Target just announced that they would pull out of a planned 32 acre shopping center being developed in the depressed Southside and will likely cut out the 160,000 square foot shop underway on the Northside as well.

These big box opponents need to realize that zero is not a living wage. They should also consider that the average WalMart store saves families $2300 a year by slashing prices and forcing other retailers to do the same. The big lie of democrats is they represent the working man. If they did, they would subsidize the building of WalMart stores in urban areas where groceries, for example, cost more than anywhere else in America.