Posted by
Chris Warren on Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:18:17 AM
We've all heard it lately the liberal mantra against the evil "W"...Wal-Mart. The argument is always the same. "They have to wait too long for benefits". "They don't pay well". It's the same old big brother argument every single time...and it gets old.
George Will in his Town Hall column debunk many of the silly theories behind the left's hatred of Wal-Mart. It is an excellent read. Building on Will's column, I'll give my take.
I shop at Wal-Mart. I don't fall neatly into their demographic category. (I grew up in Arkansas...they're everywhere). Aside from that, I am a tight-wad. Wal-Mart is a place where you can buy certain products cheaper. Why not shop there? Whether you make minimum wage, $40,000 a year, or $240,000 a year...who doesn't want to make their money go further?
A point that George Will mentions that I have hear over and over is that Wal-Mart is not-unionized. That is great. If they went union...higher wages would be mandated...thus increasing the costs....thus increasing their prices. The end result meaning higher prices for consumers. (Whom the liberal pretend that they want to protect).
One can look no further than Connecticut at the high cost of living. According to some the cost of living is 28.95% higher in CT due to unions.
Unions...Yes the answer to every problem??? Or the problem offered as the answer???
Unionizing Wal-Mart would in fact increase the wages for the workers. (Increasing costs would probably ensure that there would be less of those Wal-Mart workers to receive the pay hike). Unions tend to lean heavily on the Democrat Party (ah the real reason). Liberals/Democrats would love to see Wal-Mart unionized so as to reap the benefits to the mandatory union dues...portions of which tend to favor Democrats when it comes to political donations.
So at the end of the day, their hatred for Wal-Mart is not for the worker. It is because the have not been able to force it into a giant funnel of campaign contributions to the Democrat party.