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2006-08-10 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cause <-> effect.

New concept for the ~~mafia~~ unions, I know.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-10 00:17|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2006-08-10 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 2 tar-jay stores have also said no thanks.

Doesn't matter if Richard II vetos, the vote was veto-proof.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-08-10 02:15|| 2006-08-10 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 As a Chicagoan, I can tell you that the City Council was even more stoopid than usual. They've been looking for a way to assert their independence from Daley (they still take his money, of course, and they still need him to win re-election, but you know how the human heart is), saw this as a way to do it in a harmless way.

Plus, they had all the union people (the ones trying to organize Walmart), all the right trendy liberal progressives with their blabber about 'living wages', etc, on them. So they voted this one through without so much as a thought of the consequences.

I shop at a Lowes and a Home Depot at the 'Brickyard' mall in Chicago. I rather imagine those stores will stay for now, but don't look for any more. What the stores will do is what Walmart just did: they just opened a mega-store in a suburb literally across the street from the Chicago city limits. The Chicago resident there get the shopping, the suburb gets the employment and the tax revenues.

Shrewd, alderman, real shrewd.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-08-10 09:27|| 2006-08-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

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