For the Hippies who continue to complain that America needs unions, I can show you the tragedies unions can inflict on the nation:
A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an “out-of-control” mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store’s front doors and trampled him, police said.
The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.
When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.
The obvious is clear: unions, thanks to their useless ideas of ‘40 hour work weeks’, have brought this man to his backside, and then had him trampled by a stampede of good capitalists. Of course, we should not actually blame the shoppers: bargain days are an essential feature of capitalism, and the way these shoppers behaved is only natural. Instead, the unions are to blame, because their policies kept workers away from the store during a time the store needed them most. If WalMart could keep its stores open 24-7, then the stores will always be open, and there will be no resulting stampede of people into the store.
If you honestly care about the future of people like Mr. Damour, then you will take away the useless ‘reforms’ the worthless unions have implemented. In addition, we must also extend the Taft-Hartley Act to ban unions from protesting anywhere. If you aren’t willing to work at least half the week, then you don’t deserve any sympathy from hard-working Americans. Free speech, just like freedom, isn’t free, and it’s become clear that the unions haven’t earned theirs the way the rest of us have.
Ironically, organized labor has taken away the ability of Walmart workers to organize for protection.
By: Pokey Minch on December 1, 2008
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By: The Meaning of Existence (and all that) » The Wal-Mart Black Friday Death Blame Game on December 1, 2008
at 5:39 pm
I agree with the blog post. Makes sense. Yes. Sense. Logical, really.
By: Ian on December 1, 2008
at 11:57 pm
“Ironically, organized labor has taken away the ability of Walmart workers to organize for protection.”
Organized labor hasn’t given us anything other than bad GDP scores. If the corruption in them doesn’t give away their motives, then the results of the economy dominated by them will. Look what happened to Michigan, for example. I would highly advise you read what Mitt Romney has to say about the incident, as well as a neat play about the UAW, the Big Three, and Mitt Romney. They are right to refer to him as an idiot, since he is a Mormon and cares little for Christian values, although in this particular scene, he is quite intelligent.
By: Objective Scrutator on December 2, 2008
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Of course, the fact that Wal-mart has no unionized workers is lost on you. Wal-mart is so anti-union, in fact, that when a store once managed to unionize, they just shut it down. The guy wasn’t trampled by unions, he was trampled by greedy people who have no concept of waiting.
By: Elephant Bones on December 3, 2008
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No, no, good sir Bones, your thinking is too literal! ‘Twas the unions that brought us things like the Department of Labor, child labor laws, and the minimum wage! All these evils conspire to force Wal-Mart to not obey the laws of supply and demand, because as we all know, the 40-hour work week means no American business can be open 24 hours a day! Not a one. No, you’ll never find a drive through, an all-night pharmacy, nor a diner open in the wee hours of the morning!
By: James F. Elliott on December 3, 2008
at 3:30 am
“Of course, the fact that Wal-mart has no unionized workers is lost on you. Wal-mart is so anti-union, in fact, that when a store once managed to unionize, they just shut it down. The guy wasn’t trampled by unions, he was trampled by greedy people who have no concept of waiting.”
Unions work to make Big Government sign laws that all companies are forced to obey. The 40 hour work week and the idiotic idea that employers should be forced to provide their employees with health care comes directly from our miserable unions. WalMart can bust all the unions it wants, but the standards the unions have set up for businesses still stand today. It’s high time we topple those standards.
“All these evils conspire to force Wal-Mart to not obey the laws of supply and demand, because as we all know, the 40-hour work week means no American business can be open 24 hours a day!”
Well, it actually means that no worker can be forced to work for more than 40 hours. It was precisely the lack of workers in WalMart to defend this trampled worker that caused his death. If there were more WalMart workers there, especially if they were allowed to have guns, they wouldn’t have one dead on them. Instead, Mr. Damour stood alone, and was trampled while isolated from the rest of the workers.
By: Objective Scrutator on December 3, 2008
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Well, it actually means that no worker can be forced to work for more than 40 hours.
Yes, I was being facetious. I do that.
If there were more WalMart workers there, especially if they were allowed to have guns, they wouldn’t have one dead on them.
Ah. Killing one’s customers is a good way to attract more of them, then? The Welsh at Rorke’s Drift? The Spartans at Thermopylae? Nothing compared to Wal-Mart versus the Hungry Masses.
By: James F. Elliott on December 3, 2008
at 1:50 pm
“Yes, I was being facetious. I do that.”
Shame on you, then.
“Ah. Killing one’s customers is a good way to attract more of them, then? The Welsh at Rorke’s Drift? The Spartans at Thermopylae? Nothing compared to Wal-Mart versus the Hungry Masses.”
This actually wouldn’t scare off that many WalMart shoppers. It would let them know that the store isn’t going to tolerate customers entering without permission, and would also provide security towards several shoppers who don’t want to risk being trampled or shot. I know that I’d shop there more if they had security guards.
Although security guards would have helped the situation tremendously, the fact of the matter is that the lack of effort put into the workers to support this sale is to blame. Unions are fully responsible for this lack of morale.
By: Objective Scrutator on December 4, 2008
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Nothing like argument from assertion. Impossible to definitively refute… or confirm.
By: James F. Elliott on December 4, 2008
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“Nothing like argument from assertion. Impossible to definitively refute… or confirm.”
Yes, on paper. Once you leave the ivory tower and witness the real world, you’ll see thuggery in unions that lead to the death of Jimmy Hoffa. Do you think that his death was warranted?
By: Objective Scrutator on December 6, 2008
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