Keep Wal-Mart Out of Oakland

Demand that jobs be kept out of Oakland! Demand that WalMart keep their tax revenue! Demand that Oakland be allowed to slip further into third world shithole status!

sfres, did you even start to understand what that person said. They are saying that Walmart will reduce the number of jobs available in Oakland, plus I and you will be responsible for their healthcare by funding their indigent emergency room visits, which will be the only type of healthcare they can get with $6.00/hr wage in the Bay Area, and will also leave less space for you when you get hit by a car.

Wal-mart isn't *producing* anything. In order to create 'new' jobs, there must either be services or goods being made that weren't being produced the previous year. This can result if there is more turnover of money (lots of people earning a lot and also spending most of what they earn) or if a novel new service is created such as wi fi where people decide to buy it.

Situations where you do *not* create new jobs would be 1. When an operation becomes more efficient, either when there is a new machine which makes labor faster or there is a human labor speedup and each worker is generating more. 2. People don't make much money, and/or don't spend it (like in the great depression or peasants in Central America where people had to hold on to every dollar they made and many people ended up in the barter system etc.) Wal-Mart scores highly in both of these two categories. They are highly efficient, so dozens of stores will close so their one store will be open, and they also barely pay their people so society becomes closer and closer to Mexico where there is a huge group at the bottom that isn't permitted to spend in the economy despite their work.

Read this discussion of Walmart workers - maybe talk to them: http://www.retailworker.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=10&sid=62513c4c88eac74e968483598a7ba98c

Demand that SFres come clean about the fact that he isn't even a San Francisco resident, but actually a San Mateo resident.

Demand that SFres go get a job at the Wal Mart closest to him on the Peninsula and do some research about the actual realities that Wal Mart workers face.

Demand that SFres shut the fuck up until he thinks a little bit more before he actually writes things.

Demand that SFres actually thinks critically about anything at all cause his postings seem to show that he doesn't do any research, check his sources, or even think twice before he writes his ignorant comments from his plush pad in the suburbs.

San Mateo Resident Watch

You are using bogus data to assume that WM will result in fewer jobs. There is nothing there NOW that is going to be run out of business. WM will revitalize a rundown area. Like I said, if you don't want to work there, then don't. Also, all that nonsense you quoted about WM paying no benefits is false. Do some research instead of parroting the same, tired, Leftist, union propaganda. And as for whoever keeps referring to me as a San Mateo county resident" STFU. You don't know me, and I couldn't care less what you think

out of your posterior.

Dear ignoramous: you may be unaware that Walmart helps to promote and create sprawl, unsustainable land use and traffic congestion. Which shouldn't bother you as you try to park your Hummer in the City, with the rest of the knuckleheads who get to pay even more for gas this summer! How's the parking out where you live? You live in sf huh? Yeah right.

on many threads you see sfres making inflammatory comments with no basis in fact. It doesn't really matter what the topic is, sfres is there trolling.

Still trying to figure if sfres has made it out of high school yet or is just another one of those protest warrior idiots.

WM creates sprawl? What's there now, except the detritus of 30 years of drugs and crime. No businesess, no stores, no decent housing, crime, drugs, whores, crack addicts, the list goes on. And to the mentally slow person who always comes at me with the usual tired personal attacks- Bite me. You have nothing to say so you attack me. Fine, go ahead if it makes you feel "empowered". BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

Really I am. But you never have anything to say that one could reasonably respond to.

I hope you get over your crack addiction, I really do. But that's no reason to put in a Walmart where you don't even live. Maybe we could put it next to your house instead.