{"id":929,"date":"2004-05-13T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2018-08-14T05:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T10:25:56","slug":"929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/13\/929\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Chapman Speaks Word to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Chapman, in today&#8217;s <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0405130256may13,1,7994173.column?coll=chi-news-col\" target=\"new\">says<\/a> (registration required):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Some newcomers are planning to move to Chicago, and the invasion sounds as though it will be a grim affair. &#8220;They&#8217;re a negative for the city,&#8221; said one fearful alderman. They&#8217;re guilty of &#8220;treating people wrong,&#8221; said an angry minister. They exploit a &#8220;slave mentality,&#8221; charged another clergyman.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think Genghis Khan was riding in our direction, with his marauding hordes in tow. In fact, the would-be migrants are from Wal-Mart, whose chief crime is to become one of the most successful companies in American history. All the giant retailer is threatening to bring is a few hundred jobs and a lot of inexpensive products. But critics want the City Council to block the project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bobo opponents want to block it because it&#8217;s Wal-Mart.  But it&#8217;s a good company, an employer, and a seller of things people want to buy.  Get off the anti-capitalist chic and let it in.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t let the local government throw people out of their homes or provide tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>(Originally seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danieldrezner.com\/archives\/001289.html\" target=\"new\">Daniel Drezner<\/a> because I must be slow today getting to my Chicagoland papers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Chapman, in today&#8217;s Chicago Tribune says (registration required): Some newcomers are planning to move to Chicago, and the invasion sounds as though it will be a grim affair. &#8220;They&#8217;re a negative for the city,&#8221; said one fearful alderman. They&#8217;re guilty of &#8220;treating people wrong,&#8221; said an angry minister. They exploit a &#8220;slave mentality,&#8221; charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23335,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/23335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}