Wal-Mart video on West Side Chicago store

On Chicago's West Side, there is an alderman, Emma Mitts, who welcomed with open arms the city's first Wal-Mart into the impoverished Austin neighborhood.

As I've written several times, the gritty West Side has has little in the way of decent retail stores to service the people that live there.

Mitts is aware of this, and in a Wal-Mart video, explains, "When no one wants to come it, you have Wal-Mart who is willing to come in."

And there are a lot of new jobs--four hundred of them--courtesy of the new store; there were 15,000 applicants for those positions

Many Chicago alderman, led by anti-Wal-Mart zealot Joe Moore, fight to keep the retail king out of Chicago. As is the case with leftists, Moore is more interested in broadly fighting for "the people" rather that giving folks what they want: jobs and a way to save money.

Watch the video here. Hat tip to my pal Marshall Manson of Edelman for the video.

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