Pot meet kettle…
Last week, the Council approved a measure that would require Walmart and other large retailers doing business in the District to pay a “living wage” of $12.50 per hour.
But… uh oh. Hypocrisy alert.
District government pays less than $12.50 per hour.
Full article HERE.
If I had anything to do with it, I’d tell Walmart to walk away and take the tax loss. And I’d leave the property vacant until hell froze over!
Hypocrisy? In D.C.?!? Say it ain’t so…
DC is hypocritical? Redundancy is repetitively redundant. Also, it repeats itself over and over.
Read somewhere that Wal-Mart told DC to Shove It until DC Gooberment gets their act together.
Hell, Wal-Mart won’t even buy .22LR until the Suppliers sell it to them at the pre-Panic prices that were agreed upon. And that’s NATION-WIDE.
These little “Big Fish in Puddles” need to have a Hot Pot of Coffee dumped on their heads and told to “WAKE UP! THERE’S A REAL WORLD OUT THERE!”
Les, that .22LR thing is very interesting. This is the first I’ve heard of it, but it certainly makes sense.
Snort!
I read that Walmart is walking away from the construction, and D.C. can kiss off 1800 jobs that the company would have brought to D.C. Sucks when the ideology gets in the way and Walmart goes Galt.
People in DC are idiots. If they think that sky high minimum wage coupled with Obamacare are going to help this nation they are criminally stupid.
Tim/Rev- Yep… sigh…
Les- Good point!
WSF- Yep!
MrG- Yep, and I’d let that ground lie fallow till hell froze over!!!
Opus- True, meanwhile the people that could REALLY have used a relatively low cost place to shop now have NOTHING!!!
And not one citizen in DC will blame the council and will picket Walmart.
Ed- You’re exactly right! Dammit…
WalMart will not be building three new stores in DC.
WalMart WILL build those stores in MD and VA.
People in DC will travel to those stores and spend money.
People in DC will NOT have the jobs that Walmart would have brought with it.
The DC City Council will pat themselves on the back for “sticking it to corporate America”!
All of them will be re elected.
TOTW- Most probably…
$12.50 an hour!?? I don’t make that with skilled work as an office assistant. I didn’t make that as a photographer, salesman, or receptionist either.
Walmart always gets a bad rap, but it fills a specific need. There are lots of occasions where people don’t need nice, they need cheap. In order to do that, they cut costs everywhere possible. Yes, it’s hard to live on minimum wage, but I take offense at the people who claim it is impossible, and Walmart is not supposed to be a lifelong career in any case.