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[theoldanarchist]

Yeah, this is good land-use planning!  This needs to be resisted, but there is so little time to organize anything to help these people.  This is what government does best, evict people from their land---from an organic farm, no less---for the purpose of building a fucking WalMart warehouse aiding private developers.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/

Comments

[elendriel_212]

This seems a little too obviously "big bad corporation" vs "poor people" to me.

One immediate benefit of having Wal-Mart move in off the top of my head is that there will be jobs for those people.

I wouldn't get too worked up about this story.

[debord_saturday]

wait it's 350 families. Listen to the NPR report. It's pretty good.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5160542

[theoldanarchist]

Yes, the NPR report is much more balanced than this online article.

[theoldanarchist]

You'll pardon my idiocy, but how can it be "a little too obvious"? If you doubt the veracity of the story, all you need to do is look it up, the facts are out there. But, it seems that you are saying something else. I am worked up about it, and I hope a great many other people get worked up about it as well. These people do not need a WalMart, and they do not need the jobs it can, ostensibly, provide---they need to keep their farm. All of our major urban areas need more farms like this, and fewer WalMarts.

[elendriel_212]

Are you kidding me??? I completely disagree with you. People need jobs. Wal-mart provides jobs.

I know this is one area that we will never agree on, so let's just agree to disagree, ok?

[theoldanarchist]

Well, I knew that we would disagree. Neither of us is surprised by that, so... yeah, agree to disagree.

[theoldanarchist]

However, in economically depressed areas it could be argued that any job is better than no job, and the low prices of food and other things at Walmart kind of makes up for the low wages.

Perhaps, Mike, but in this case we have 350 families growing their own food---they have no need for inexpensive food at WalMart. More farms of this type are exactly what we need---not more WalMarts.

[winstonjc]

But they didn't need a McJob. Why is it hard to see the Golgafrinchan insanity of putting people in a situation where they need to be dependent on a McJob and then saying, "good for us, we've created McJobs for you in the process"?

[theoldanarchist]

Precisely.