When will they learn az m'ken haynt nit azay reyden?
It's all about Wal-Mart in Monsey wanting to open a Supercenter and the opposition by local business owners, many of whom are Hasidic Jews. This article, published in last weekend's Financial Times and FT.com is read by (presumably) millions of non-Jews around the world.
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“We should make petitions. We should make protests. That’s the way it is going to work,” he declared with inspired wrath before a 100-strong crowd. “We are the ones who elect the officials in this community. And we are the ones that break them.”
Wal-Mart, he warned, would be bad for the traffic on the area’s main road, where, just a few weeks before, a mother was killed as she walked back from visiting sick members of the community. And it would be bad for crime: “This is a place where we leave our doors unlocked. If Wal-Mart comes in you are going to have to put bars on your windows. They will bring in very low-level people, and if these low-level people come in they are going to follow us to our homes, and ransack our homes.”
Talk about a bad choice of words....
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Good stuff.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a Wally's about 2 miles away from me in an out-of-town shtodt. There has been absolutely no change in any of the aforementioned in my area. If anything, the business strip around the WMT center is booming with lots of well kept stores. Hardly the gloom-and-doom scenario that the anti-Wally chronic kvetchers keep prognosticating.
Forget prejudice; this guy is just a plain ol' vanilla ignormamus.
Most of the people who oppose Walmart are the corrupt unions and local business owners. I can understand the business owners, but with the unions it's all about revenge. The people of the community stand to gain much by the entrance of Walmart into the area, by enjoying low prices and a good, large selection.
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