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From: LindyBill	7/27/2006 9:01:49 PM
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It's the "pro-Union" outlook of the Pols. Chicago Hates Poor People Agitator blog When Wal-Mart opened a store in Evergreen Park, Illinois, just one block outside the Chicago city limits, 20,000 Chicagoans put in applications for just 500 available positions. Clearly, there are a significant number of residents of Chicago who would like very much to work for Wal-Mart, despite all the talk about the store's allegedly paltry wages and benefits. So what does the city council do? It passes a "living wage" bill aimed squarely at Wal-Mart, effectively guaranteeing that Wal-Mart will never open another store in Chicago (neither, apparently will Target, or many other big box stores). The poor folks who make up that 40-1 ratio of Chicagoans who want jobs at Wal-Mart to available jobs at Wal-Mart will now need to find a way to get to the suburbs to find employment. Or, for that matter, to good stuff at low prices. Of course, the people least likely to be able to get out to the suburbs are the people most in need of good jobs and low-cost goods. Is the Chicago city council really this stupid? Or are they so consumed with hate for Wal-Mart that they don't care about the repercussions of legislation like this?

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