Friday, July 17, 2009  Chicago Needs Jobs. Wal-Mart Wants to
Provide Hundreds of Jobs. So What's The Problem?  Chicago needs
new jobs. Wal-Mart wants to provide jobs to Chicago. Alderman
Howard Brookins wants Wal-Mart in his 21st Ward. Yet the company
and the alderman face huge resistance from the City Council to a
proposal for a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the South Side, at 83rd
Street and Stewart Avenue just west of the Dan Ryan.  What's
there now? A vacant lot. A vacant lot where no one is working.
The construction of that store on that vacant site would put
hundreds of Chicagoans to work. Once the store was opened, at
least 500 people would get jobs.  What's the holdup? For Chicago
politicians, Wal-Mart jobs are the wrong kind of jobs. They're
not union jobs.  ~From today's Chicago Tribune editorial   At
7/17/2009 10:08 AM, Blogger Angela said...  With Obama in
office, jobs are for suckers.  They went through this a couple
of years ago. They decided to impose a surtax on "big box"
businesses in the city, so