(June 30, 2013 at 8:12 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: My home ...city? District? Is Washington, D.C. DC has enough problems without Wal-Mart fucking it over even harder. There's a lot of small businesses and locally-owned and operated stores in that area that would suffer greatly for the presence of a Wal-Mart which would threaten to fuck over the wealth disparity already struggling there. Wal-mart's practices are unsavory at best and destructive at worst and they're often at their worst wherever they go.The counter argument is there are a lot of unskilled workers in DC, and Wal*Mart could provide them jobs. But they will only pay minimum wage and will likely be part-time to save Wal*Mart the cost of benefits. I think this would be worse. If those people could earn the $12.50 an hour, they'd still have no benefits and likely be part-timers, maybe Wal*Mart should just go away.
Like LP said. Fuck Wal-Mart.
The problem is DC, especially eastern DC does need development. Just not this kind of development that will give people jobs and yet make it worse for them.
