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Right, Because We Wouldn't Want Poor People To Have Jobs Or Cheap Goods

By on 2.11.09 @ 11:03AM

There are wide swaths of Chicago that look like something out of Mad Max, where people are trying to raise families under very difficult circumstances that should concern us all, but the city leaders apparently have more important things to attend to--like keeping Wal-Mart out of town.

Nothing quite like the compassionate set's principled opposition to real progressive success stories.

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Shawn Macomber is a contributing editor to The American Spectator.

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/02/11/right-because-we-wouldnt-want

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