Actually, the title is misleading. There is no Wal-Mart in New York City. The City Council held a hearing yesterday to discuss Wal-Mart, taking comments from small business owners who argued that Wal-Mart would eliminate them and from labor union representatives who brought up Wal-Mart’s anti-union activities.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when asked for his opinion about Wal-Mart, said this: “You should let the marketplace decide. Anybody who has tried to manage the market place, it has not turned out very well. I think the Soviet Union is as good an example as you’d ever need of that.” (New York Times, Feb. 4, 2011).
Interesting. Comparing opposition to Wal-Mart to the Soviet Union. Wal-Mart is the company with the largest number of employees in the U.S. The company that goes out of its way to fight unions. The company with the lousy health insurance. The company that bullies its suppliers. The company that has wrecked small town shopping districts across the country. This is free market? Give me a break.
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