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Walmart says it will kill plans to build 3 new stores if DC wage bill passes

The market was not and is not under-served..

For the locations in DC, it is an under served market. Food deserts. But hell with it, let the poor eat off the dollar menu, right? So long as you get your prime beef and organically fed organic chickens, right?
 
For the locations in DC, it is an under served market. Food deserts. But hell with it, let the poor eat off the dollar menu, right? So long as you get your prime beef and organically fed organic chickens, right?

No. It's served now, and any number of market rivals would gladly fill the void if Walmart does not enter it.
 
No. It's served now, and any number of market rivals would gladly fill the void if Walmart does not enter it.

No, it's not. 3 of the 4 known locations are smack dab in the middle of food deserts. The 4th is adjacent to one. You know what a food desert is, don't you, chef?
 
No, it's not. 3 of the 4 known locations are smack dab in the middle of food deserts. The 4th is adjacent to one. You know what a food desert is, don't you, chef?

When someone in DC cannot spend their grocery budget, be reeeeeal sure and let me know.
 
Earlier I wrote, "You do realize that your talking points are nothing more than the Left's propaganda, don't you?

Maybe you don't."
or maybe you don't know what you're talking about ... funny how that works, huh?
You should have acknowledged that you were not aware...
 
How would you explain Clinton, Gore, and Kerry getting close to or over 90% of the black vote? Does that help? When you have Rand Paul going around saying that a restaurant owner should be able to deny someone sevice just because he's black, that doesn't help you guys. Or Steve King's recent comments on Mexican immigrants. Or cuts in programs for the poor (and blacks are disproportionately poor). Or questioning whether Obama was born here or is a real American? Mister, did you really have to ask?
That was it? That explains one group of people voting as a bloc for the people who pander to them and give them things? Do you ever think about what happens when they realize that most of the left acts out their racism through low expectations?
 
Earlier I wrote, "In your opinion should temporary politicians be allowed to change the demographics of the country for their benefit and against the will of the people?"

If you're talking about immigration, you have absolutely no idea how immigration works ... Do you think businesses in this country like having access to cheap immigrant labor? Clue, when they can, they outsource labor ...
You should have just said you are fine with changing the demographics of the nation in your bid for power and control. Instead you dodged.
 
Poverty (effects) abatement, since Minorities are more poverty-afflicted on average.

College assistance, since Minorities often cannot afford to put their kids through college, both due to lower wages, on average, and the lack of generational wealth accumulation which Whites have more of due to having had an advantage, here, for centuries.

Affirmative Action, which has put millions of Minorities into the middle and upper middle classes.

Immigration reform / amnesty, since many Minorities have been here one or two generations and would like to bring family members here, too.

Minimum wage increases, since Minorities are more-affected by wage minimums.

Judicial / sentencing reforms, since Minorities have higher arrest rates and conviction rates, for the same crimes, compared to White Americans.

Many others, but you get the idea.
Those are not minority issues. They are leftist issues. It is all about wealth redistribution in exchange for votes.
 
No sweat, and much appreciated in stating the obvious was in fact that. A sage approach.

Plus, the query was "what minority issues?" So if even not factual (they are) if minority groups in fact have taken them up as causes (they have) then my answer is still true.

Simply put: Does Del a Raza oppose laws like that in AZ and other anti-immigration effort? Of course.

Does NAACP support and defend Affirmative Action, decry incarceration rates among Blacks, promote food and housing assistance for the poor? Of course.

Hence, there are in fact many minority issues, which the GOP is on the wrong side of reflexively. So the question is, in my mind, not why 70% of minorities voted Dem; it's why did 30% vote Rep????
You have made the case that the Left makes Socialism's chains look appealing.
 
do you believe the people, or their ideas are evil, on this forum?


i myself believe in the people to, however i dont believe in giving the people all direct power.

any [one, few, many] who have all direct power will become tyrannical.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. --federalist 47

no, i don't think they're evil (the comment was togure in cheek), although, some people do say evil things, don't you think?

I don't know what to say about your second comment on the concentration of power, other than we are a society and society isn't just a collection of individuals .... society first and foremost is comprised of relationships (not just between individuals, but statuses, or positions, as well if not principally), social interaction, and that requires certain agreements, understandings, that sometimes have to be challenged, at other times enforced ...
 
Earlier I wrote, "You do realize that your talking points are nothing more than the Left's propaganda, don't you?

Maybe you don't."

You should have acknowledged that you were not aware...


missed my cue? so sorry ... maybe next time ...
 
That was it? That explains one group of people voting as a bloc for the people who pander to them and give them things? Do you ever think about what happens when they realize that most of the left acts out their racism through low expectations?

you're really hopeless ... How does anyone even begin to have a conversation with you?
 
Earlier I wrote, "In your opinion should temporary politicians be allowed to change the demographics of the country for their benefit and against the will of the people?"


You should have just said you are fine with changing the demographics of the nation in your bid for power and control. Instead you dodged.

Why is it that every time you don't understand something someone says, they're dodging? ... trust me, you're the problem ...
 
no, i don't think they're evil (the comment was togure in cheek), although, some people do say evil things, don't you think?

agree

I don't know what to say about your second comment on the concentration of power, other than we are a society and society isn't just a collection of individuals .... society first and foremost is comprised of relationships (not just between individuals, but statuses, or positions, as well if not principally), social interaction, and that requires certain agreements, understandings, that sometimes have to be challenged, at other times enforced ...

you stated your a man of the people, well thats fine, however i am also a man of the people and the states.

i dont like democratic government which is a concentration of power..........the people only

i prefer republican government which is the separation of powers.......the people and the states, as the founders created......direct power in only the people is a dangerous thing.
 
How would you explain Clinton, Gore, and Kerry getting close to or over 90% of the black vote? Does that help? When you have Rand Paul going around saying that a restaurant owner should be able to deny someone sevice just because he's black, that doesn't help you guys. Or Steve King's recent comments on Mexican immigrants. Or cuts in programs for the poor (and blacks are disproportionately poor). Or questioning whether Obama was born here or is a real American? Mister, did you really have to ask?

Bevause most blacks folks are held captive on the Democrat Plantation.
 
agree



you stated your a man of the people, well thats fine, however i am also a man of the people and the states.

i dont like democratic government which is a concentration of power..........the people only

i prefer republican government which is the separation of powers.......the people and the states, as the founders created......direct power in only the people is a dangerous thing.

let me ask you ... should a restaurant owner have the right to deny a black man service simply because he is black?
 
Bevause most blacks folks are held captive on the Democrat Plantation.

and they're so stupid that they don't know it? We missed you apdst ... you make the rest of us sound so much smarter than we really are ...
 
yes, because of right to commerce, right to property, and right to association.

what rights of the patron are being violated ...none.

no one has a right to be served.

I don't favor discrimination, ...however I do favor people being able to exercise their rights, just because other people don't like how a citizens exercises his rights, does not give government authority to force the citizen do things against his will.

constitutional law, prevails over statutory law.

discrimination is a social problem, not a governmental problem, government is not here to make us moral or immoral.
 
yes, because of right to commerce, right to property, and right to association.

what rights of the patron are being violated ...none.

no one has a right to be served.

I don't favor discrimination, ...however I do favor people being able to exercise their rights, just because other people don't like how a citizens exercises his rights, does not give government authority to force the citizen do things against his will.

constitutional law, prevails over statutory law.

discrimination is a social problem, not a governmental problem, government is not here to make us moral or immoral.

thank you ... I wish Rand luck ...
 
yes, because of right to commerce, right to property, and right to association.

what rights of the patron are being violated ...none.

no one has a right to be served.

I don't favor discrimination, ...however I do favor people being able to exercise their rights, just because other people don't like how a citizens exercises his rights, does not give government authority to force the citizen do things against his will.

constitutional law, prevails over statutory law.

discrimination is a social problem, not a governmental problem, government is not here to make us moral or immoral.

I classify myself as "libertarian right", too, but this is unsupportable. I was brought up in the South and lived through the last days of Jim Crow. Libertarianism can't stand for that.
 
thank you ... I wish Rand luck ...

your feelings, I am sure are based out of emotion, and wanting people not to be offended, however under constitutional law your feelings are not protected.

rand?......its constitutional law I want to see upheld.
 
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I classify myself as "libertarian right", too, but this is unsupportable. I was brought up in the South and lived through the last days of Jim Crow. Libertarianism can't stand for that.

libertarianism, is about individual rights of the people, just because someone exercises a right in a way you don't like, but is not a crime, does not give you and anyone else authority to force that person to do things against his will.
 
your feelings, I am sure are based out of emotion, and wanting people not to be offended, however under constitutional law your feelings are not protected.

rand?......its constitutional law I want to see upheld.

you must be right ... after all, who knows me as well as you do? Rand may run ... Question: Will he run with or away that position?
 
you must be right ... after all, who knows me as well as you do? Rand may run ... Question: Will he run with or away that position?

when ever I am affronted with something on this board, I ask myself this question......who's property is it?

I don't makes decisions based on how I feel ,but what the laws says.

laws based on feelings, are a disaster in the making.
 
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