Progressives Declare -No Jobs- are Good Enough For Chicago's South-Side Residents

Dennis Byrne of the Chicago Daily Observer reports:

If there’s ever an illustration of how “progressive” elites and organized labor are keeping the very people they supposedly care about locked up on the plantation, it’s their consuming opposition to a new Wal-Mart store on the South Side.

The impoverished, unemployed, blacks, seniors, teens—they’ve all getting a good frigging by the organized campaign by white liberals and powerful unions to block the construction of only the city’s second Wal-Mart, at 83rd Street and Stewart Avenue.

The rousing success of the city’s first Wal-Mart at 4650 W North Ave. providing jobs and shopping for a West Side neighborhood in great need of them hasn’t dissuaded the elites in the least from blocking something that people want and need.

More evidence of progressive, white elitism behind the opposition is provided by a new survey conducted for the retailer that found that 76.7 percent of the 75,347 city residents surveyed want the new store (margin of error of ±0.34 percent). While the poll received a decent amount of publicity, what didn’t was the ward-by-ward breakdown of the results.

You'll want to read the whole article. This one man will decide whether Wal-Mart will get to expand. Which probably isn't a great way to run a city.