CALIFORNIA SITE FIGHT: EVERYONE HAS THEIR REASONS
Letters: Special interests oppose Wal-Mart with phony reasons [Daily Triplicate (Calif.)]
The unionized special interests continue to bring up the most ridiculous, phony and self-serving excuses to delay Wal-Mart expansion when they know it will be approved anyway.
This isn’t Russia. Anyone can build anything with normal approvals. No one complained about other store moves, expansions and construction. A noisy few cannot control the needs and wishes of the rest of the area population.
The nearby creek is not an issue. Condo construction 300 feet upstream of that “ditch” has already bulldozed the creek in several places and will dump tons of silt into the stream when rains come. No complaints about that because Wal-Mart doesn’t own it.
Old-fashioned competition is the issue. Compete or fail. Law of the jungle. A huge hardware store did not put a highly competitive and well stocked store nearby out of business. A new drug store will not put another close-by store out of business. New coffee stands don’t put others out of business. A new casino wont put others, or close-by motels and restaurants, out of business.
With soaring grocery prices, competition is the best thing that could happen to us. Price and choices are the key to success. Earn more or spend less. Special interest groups accomplish nothing but delays in progress, all over the county. If you don’t like it here, go somewhere else.
Bob Douglas
Smith River
Posted by Luke West on Thursday, October 02, 2008
