From the NY Post:Local nonprofits that have received charitable contributions from Walmart are denouncing extraordinary demands from the City Council that they return the funds to protest the retail giant’s policies.
Even charity officials whose ideologies are in line with the far-left council said its position — which stems from concerns about Walmart’s wages and work conditions — is way out of line.
“We will not give the money back nor should we,” declared Joel Berg, executive director of the Coalition Against Hunger.
“Our determination of whether we ask for and take money is not how the company earned the money, it’s how they want us to spend it,” he added.
“In this case it’s on progressive values. Never has it been tied to any public-policy agenda.”
“We have had it, our constituents have had it and everyone we know in this city has had it with [Walmart],” said ringleader Daniel Dromm (D-Queens), who took political correctness to the extreme by calling on charities to return the company’s contributions.
Danny again, eh?
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Insane.
This is truly a case of the inmates are running the asylum.
Please crawl back in your hole Danny...and never come out again.
How about our council speaker return all of the tax payer money she has received in the form of her low income subsidized mortgage, a millionaire like her should pay a market rate
These city council clowns cease to amaze me with their utter stupidity. Every time I think they can't come up with stupider ideas they prove me wrong.
Maybe Walmart has problems with elected officials, because it hasn't learn that it should donate $ funds to their election campaign committees.
WRONG, Danny! New Yorkers DO support having Walmart: http://newyork.walmartcommunity.com/latest-quinnipiac-poll-shows-support-is-growing/
“We have had it, our constituents have had it and everyone we know in this city has had it with [Walmart],”...
And we know what everyone he knows is.
Dromm is a F*CKING IDIOT!
How about our council speaker return all of the tax payer money she has received in the form of her low income subsidized mortgage, a millionaire like her should pay a market rate
Jimmy Van Bramer's friend....
Maybe Walmart has problems with elected officials, because it hasn't learn that it should donate $ funds to their election campaign committees.
BINGO!
Last time I looked, this was a free country. Walmart can donate to any organization it wants to. Whatever happened to Free Enterprise? The majority of people want Walmart in the 5 boroughs. Politicians don't want it, so it wont happen. Who are they to dictate what stores and corporations can't move into NYC?
For those who think Walmart is some great benefit to society, read this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/
YOU ans I pay to subsidize the profit of this operation and ALL the other low wage operators. There is no free lunch here.
That is a valid and important, but separate issue.
The fact is, our crackpot City Council has NO BUSINESS deciding which retailer can or cannot open up a store because it happens to offend their sense of "fair". They are legislators, not moral police. You better believe the readers of QueensCrap will be watching the campaign contribution database closely after this little snit.
Here's Van Bramer making a fool of himself even in front of an idiot like Neil Cavuto:
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/04/nyc-council-to-walmart-stop-sending-your-dangerous-dollars-to-our-citys-charities/
"I think that Walmart materials may be a little bit cheaper but that does not make up for how they treat their workers...Just because it's a job doesn't mean it's a good job." - What a self-righteous swish.
Can someone tell me if all the other retailers like Kmart or target pay and treat their workers any better. And it used to be that these jobs weren't meant to be permanent family raising jobs. Has that changed?
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