Comments on: Rohnert Park planners approve EIR for Wal-Mart

By: Snarky

Snarky — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:50:20 +0000

And, again, what employment qualifications do the government “planners” have other than the silly government job title.?

Are they trained, licensed architects or civil engineers? Nope.

The “planners” are merely buddies of the good old boy government network. Nothing more required.

Government pretends to have “authority” based upon its own silly job titles and not based upon actual important job skills.

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By: Cathy Travels

Cathy Travels — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:26:17 +0000

“If Wal-Mart adds a grocery, no other grocer will ever move into the still-vacant space once used by Pacific Market, forever depriving that eastside neighborhood of an essential service, said Roger Carrillo.”

Roger Carillo is not telling the truth. A tenant for that space is already pushing paperwork through Rohnert Park City Hall to adapt and occupy that supermarket space.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:01:24 +0000

Employee turnover at Walmart is about 100% every year. That is, for most people, Walmart is an entry-level job that leads to something else. Often, it’s people returning to the workforce after an absence or who need something until a better job comes along.

And then there’s the post-retirement folks who want something to do or need extra money. For them, Walmart offers opportunity that is available nowhere else.

There’s a myth here, that Walmart replaced Mom ‘n’ Pop retail that offered employees good pay and benefits. Not true. If you don’t like Walmart, don’t shop there.

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By: The Hammer

The Hammer — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:21:59 +0000

Everyone wins at Walmart. The consumer gets the better prices on products and people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for a job elsewhere have employment. What do you think would happen to those employees of Walmart if they had to pay them more. Walmart would hire a higher educated, higher level, employee and those poor soles working their now would be looking for a job elsewhere.

If you don’t like how Walmart runs its business then you and the other five people who hate Walmart can shop elsewhere.

And why is it that no one ever complains about Target. Same business plan there.

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By: MOCKINGBIRD

MOCKINGBIRD — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:28:23 +0000

GAJ-maybe you haven’t noticed but those workers at WALMART aren’t students working part time but FAMILIES. Maybe you haven’t noticed that the advent of union bashing over the last 40 years has resulted in a major drop in unions and union membership and that drop directly correlates to the decline in the middleclass. It’s corporations like Walmart who are busy making themselves into monopolies and putting small businesses out of business with their price undercutting. These types of jobs are replacing traditional middleclass lifetime secure jobs with benefits and pensions. You can’t retire even reasonably working for Walmart yet people work there for years because there aren’t the jobs out there.

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By: GAJ

GAJ — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:48:23 +0000

Your first job is not your last job.

Your first job is likely not a job upon which you could raise a family of four.

A first job is just that, a first job, a stepping stone job.

My first job was minimum wage at a Grand Union grocery store in Miami…believe me, it taught me that, for sure, I’d better apply myself in College and at jobs I got after College to ensure I climbed the economic ladder. I was happy to get that “stepping stone” job and it taught me a lot about how I should proceed in my working life.

There is nothing wrong with a “stepping stone” job if you think you have enough talent and perseverance to use that job as an asset to get your next, better, job.

If you are unmotivated and unproductive and can’t rise beyond a stepping stone job then that is not something for government to “fix” by enacting “living wage” legislation or some such nonsense.

WalMart, (which I never go into), will be a boon for poorer families looking to stretch their food dollar.

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By: Follower

Follower — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:44:12 +0000

@JP
The hypocrisy of Liberalism knows no bounds.
They hate capitalism yet they can’t fund any of their pet social programs without it. So in an attempt to divert more of the spoils of capitalism their way, they tax it, regulate it and when that inevitably destroys the ability to produce profits, they subsidize it.

BUT… Conservatives are guilty of the same type of hypocrisies.

They claim they “want the Government out of their life” unless of course you’re a woman seeking an abortion.
Or a gay couple seeking a marriage license.

They incessantly rail against Government trying to control every aspect of our lives yet they support the ULTIMATE “control”, Capital Punishment!

You can’t have it both ways.

If you want to be able to siphon funds from Capitalism to feed your social programs you can’t simultaneously fight to destroy the very source of your funding.

If you want the “Government out of our lives” then you can’t fight to use the Government to impose your personal beliefs on others.

Extreme Conservatism is just as much a “Mental Disorder” as extreme Liberalism.

There’s just a lot less of it these days.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:45:54 +0000

Bear,

If so, only one look at a Walmart parking lot would tell you that the Middle Ages must be very popular.

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By: robert motiska

robert motiska — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:57:22 +0000

Yet another reason why Rohnert Park is considered the plastic armpit of Sonoma County.

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By: bear

bear — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:41:59 +0000

If you want an economy that resembles the Middle Ages, this is a big step forward.

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By: John Pendergast

John Pendergast — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:03:14 +0000

If you’re a union member at Safeway or Raley’s, this sucks. But for everyone else, it helps their bottom lines. The traditional grocery chains just have crazy prices up here. Some items should be wrapped in Tiffany’s boxes for what we pay.

The spirit of liberalism is embracing what’s good collectively for all of us, not just one group of people. Doesn’t that mean that liberal Democrats should support the Wal-Mart expansion?

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