Wunners of Wal-Mart

Hub black ministers extend invite By Hillary Chabot Saturday, June 9, 2012 (...) A group of Hub black ministers is urging U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren to meet with them and take part in a forum where they will be asked what they will do for poor minorities in the Bay State. (( ... snip-an’-skip to the peanut gallery ... )) MikeArnold Here’s a question I’d love to see get answered from both of these candidates plus the 10-point coalition (¿?): since this is about what can be done to help the poor minorities, my question is, "Do any of you people, not only as Senatorial candidates and People of [Father Zeus] but as husbands, wives, parents, teachers, leaders, breadwinners et al think it’s fair and just that WAL-MART with its jobs and low prices is being shunned from the city limits of Boston [by] the whims of one person, that being the blithering nitwit bagman Mayor and his toadies from within and outside the community? M. A. Posted 1 day ago

I don’t believe the Funders of Fratboy, or the rest of the Herald-Angel Class either, have ever yet seen as clearly as Mr. Poster does here that Wal-Mart is THE Secret-Sector Solution. The best neopolicy conceivable, that is, short of cuttin’ off the Bad Poor with no non-secret provision whatever, a plan for which Louisedayhicksville is no doubt ready, but not nearly enough othervolks. Not yet. Somebooby should therefore put it to the Mayor, and the Governor, and to Sen. Fratboy & Perfesser Warren & all the Solons on both Hills, and to the POTUS of us all, that whatever is available to the Bad Poor cheap at W-M should under no circumstances be supplied to them out of Mass. or Fedguv revenues. That takes care of food and clothing.  Housing is a little trickier, maybe, but I presume they sell tents?  Medicine is a problem in a class all its own, as usual, but (( truncate letter to editor here )) between the W-M pharmacy and the emergency room in one of their Betters’ suburban hospitals, I daresay there is a reasonable amount of safety net for the "small people." An’ ¡all this with negligible danger of moral hazard! The negative side is even niftier: W-M already does not sell such luxuries as intoxicants and shares in the lottery, so the Bee Pees will be unable to ape the entertainment or specuvestment habits of their Betters, happily doping away with that pitiful, because antecedently hopeless, emulation on which they presently waste scads and scads of dough without visible benefit to anybooby. An AEIdeological problem or two might arise, though, as "How if the Wal-Martians decide in future they do want to sell booze or cut-rate credit-default swaps?" ¡Nothin’ would be wickeder, surely, than for The Wicked State to just say ’No’ to that sort of entreprenurial get-up-an’-grow! And similarly, if their freelordships decided to stop doin’ groceries. Or tents. For that matter, the off-hand way I have picked up Mr. Poster’s shtyk sounds as if their Wal-Martian freelordships are to be granted a monopoly, as if the W. S. would send in Her blue meanies to close down K-Mart or Target or Niemann-Marcus should they attempt to horn in on the nonsecret-provision subsector.   Strict dogmatic mythology of the Chicagonomic or Viennasausage School assures us that the attempt must fail, since ex hypothesi Wal-Martians charge less than anybooby else can ever possibly afford to charge. Nevertheless, I believe most of the stout Paladins of Freedumb would deem it heretical that even the lousiest bad judgment in the ranks of Big Management should be second-guessed by mere elected persons.   In the ever-immortal words of Party Neocomrade (eighth grade) C. M. Schillin’, "Far better not to be saved from oneself at all, than to be saved from oneself by The Wicked State!" Happy days. --JHM