A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said.
The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.
When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.
The obvious is clear: unions, thanks to their useless ideas of '40 hour work weeks', have brought this man to his backside, and then had him trampled by a stampede of good capitalists. Of course, we should not actually blame the shoppers: bargain days are an essential feature of capitalism, and the way these shoppers behaved is only natural. Instead, the unions are to blame, because their policies kept workers away from the store during a time the store needed them most. If WalMart could keep its stores open 24-7, then the stores will always be open, and there will be no resulting stampede of people into the store.
If you honestly care about the future of people like Mr. Damour, then you will take away the useless 'reforms' the worthless unions have implemented. In addition, we must also extend the Taft-Hartley Act to ban unions from protesting anywhere. If you aren't willing to work at least half the week, then you don't deserve any sympathy from hard-working Americans. Free speech, just like freedom, isn't free, and it's become clear that the unions haven't earned theirs the way the rest of us have.
Or Walmart could pay more people to do more hours (which would be cheaper than to pay the same hours in overtime with the employees they have) and stay open round the clock too. Unless you want employees to work 24/7 without overtime pay? Remember once it goes for Walmart employees it will probably spread to your job as well
ReplyDeleteIt's just not so intersting economically.
And by the way, if you find a customer stampede "natural" then you are far gone into consumerism
This is a joke, right?
ReplyDeleteA sick joke, obviously, but still..
You're a certified whackjob, in case that wasn't already abundantly clear.
"Or Walmart could pay more people to do more hours (which would be cheaper than to pay the same hours in overtime with the employees they have) and stay open round the clock too. "
ReplyDeleteThis comment is stupid on many, many levels. For starters, WalMart doesn't exactly get enormous amounts of job applications. Secondly, increasing the minimum wage (as unions want to do, and often have done) leads to increases in unemployment; this is standard economics, so if you want to argue this point, consider yourself in the tiny, tiny minority. Finally, the best way to fight inflation is to keep wages down.
"Unless you want employees to work 24/7 without overtime pay? "
I think WalMart would know the answer to that the best. Neither you, nor me, nor the idiotic government regulators know the correct answer to that.
"Remember once it goes for Walmart employees it will probably spread to your job as well"
This is an ad hominem remark; although not particularly rude, it doesn't really make a point. As someone who sells real estate, I would actually stand to gain from wage drops. The significant wage drops from blue collar workers will cause a slight increase in white collar salaries (which are largely in the hands of employers, not the government); as most real estate is bought by white collar workers, I can increase the price on my real estate slightly.
"It's just not so intersting economically."
Huh?
"And by the way, if you find a customer stampede "natural" then you are far gone into consumerism"
What are you going to do to stop it directly, then? Are you just going to send in SWAT troops to murder them on the spot? Are you going to force WalMart to change its prices?
"This is a joke, right?"
No. That was a pretty pathetic attempt to escape the argument.
"You're a certified whackjob, in case that wasn't already abundantly clear."
Since when did anyone care what liberals think?
I had been wondering at your inclusion of Americaphile in your list of friends at your other blog, but now it makes an awful lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, your post has it backwards: the non-unionized Wal★Mart employee was actually martyred in the name of capitalism by an onrushing horde of presumably unionized liberals.