Almost Worst Column Ever

Hat Tip to Citizen A over at Screen Door Republic for sending me an article that gives my vote for Worst Column Ever a very close run.

It is very egregious. In Marie Coco's article, she calls this year a "Walmart Christmas" versus all the "GM Christmases" we've had before.

WHAT?!?

Does anyone remember the South Park episode where everyone who drives a hybrid car became so smug about their "goodness" that they created a giant smug cloud that threatened the planet (oh and every time the hybrid-car-owners farted, they bent down and sniffed their own butts - real deep sniffs). Ms. Coco's article is a one-person giant smug cloud and from the level of intelligence emanating from this article, I'd say I know what she's been sniffing as well.

Can any person making under six figures and living near a Walmart honestly say they've never stepped inside one? Can any parent with small children say they've never visited a Walmart? If you can, you are either a liar or make so much money this recession will never affect you.

The only place in my area where I can get my daughter's Girl Scouts stuff is Walmart for crying out loud.

This Coco chick claims that once upon a time in America, every factory worker earned the perfect amount of money by working in a factory. Additionally, "if you were working class, you were not feeling betrayed and you didn't necessarily feel inferior to, say, the people who sold stock on Wall Street." What a load of baby boomer nostalgia/nonsense.

Now all evil in the world can be placed not at the feet of power-hungry Unions or money-hungry Corporate executives/Wall Streeters but laid down at Walmart's door.

Why? Because, shock-and-horror, the largest private sector employer in the world has some employee relations court cases.

Walmart has 1.2 million employees in the US alone. That's a lot of people to keep employed and happy. GM "only" has about 324,000 employees and in 1985 that number was roughly 800,000.

In difficult economic times, I'm pretty certain we want the largest private employer in the US to continue to be the largest private employer in the US. AND to continue to provide their customers (aka us) with value for money.

And for Liberals Elites, that's the problem. Liberal Elites HATE Walmart because it does not apologize for keeping its wages low. No one is forced to work for Walmart or remain a Walmart employee if unhappy. This is a free country. But Liberals want to punish Walmart for its size, efficiencies, and affordability by forcing them to unionize thus driving up wages until Walmart is no longer competitive.

Thus the lament that higher priced mom-and-pop shops were driven out of business by lower-priced Walmart is combined with a desire to force Walmart to raise wages and as-a-result prices to punish all of us for wanting a good deal. Thanks Liberals, thanks a lot.

For those reasons, the Coco article is not quite the Worst Column Ever because she is not completely and entirely wrong. A Walmart Christmas is just what the economists' ordered.

But she is clearly a freakin' idiot.

Again, thank you Citizen A for pointing that out.