Do you condone local businesses making their employees work on holidays because I stopped at about 5 of them today.
This isn't a big corporation, Wal-Mart problem...everything is open today. Everyone's favorite tradition - the NFL on Thanksgiving - requires the hard work of thousands of people that aren't athletes getting paid 7 figures (concession workers, security, all the people involved in producing the games for tv, etc). I'm assuming you turned off your tv in protest today? You're a better man than me.
Small business following the lead of big business.
Small business can't compete with big business if they take a day off that big business will capitalize on. Another example of Wal-Mart destroying small business, by forcing them to open up.
Those football games, the people working are not working the entire day.
Once again, some of you guys look away while the train wreck occurs. You simply say the people have spoken and want Wal Mart to be open. That's not the point. Like I said before, you feed the mob blood, and the mob will continue to drink. It's interesting when the majority of Americans actually at some point supported universal healthcare before the GOP painted it in a bad light, the conservatives played the tyranny of the majority card. But yet because Wal-Mart is a private company and does this, we have to respect their right to do so.
The reason why we have federal holidays and national holidays, is so people COULD get the day off. I was ok with Black Friday years ago opening at 3-4-5 AM on FRIDAY. People were out shopping then too. But because people are still shopping that makes it ok?
It's amazing how you tout the free market whenever the "people" decide which is the best product, but when it comes to doing the right thing and the people get it wrong you won't stand up and say anything.
McDonalds only opened up on Thanksgiving because they realized since all the other retailers were following Wal-Mart's lead of opening on Thanksgiving, they were missing out too. It's not all about the money, it's about doing what's right. Thanksgiving and Christmas were the TWO guaranteed days on the calendar people could get away from work and spend the day with their families. Even if you didn't celebrate them on religious grounds they were pretty much guaranteed off days. Now that corporate America is on the cusp of exploiting both of those holidays on the exact days and not just the days surrounding them, you guys just look the other way because "the people want it". If school boards forced kids to go to school on Christmas sighting it being a religious holiday and no longer applicable, some of you would claim attack on Christianity in a heartbeat. Wal Mart wants people to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas? No biggie, that's what the "market" demands.
You'll stand up for the right to bear arms, cutting entitlements, but you won't stand up for average people getting screwed over by the hand that feeds them because they should be happy the hand is feeding them to begin with and holding all the cards. And when they try to voice their concern and fight back, you simply throw it in their face by saying "If you don't like it, someone else will do it". That's every corporations dream is when their consumer loses compassion for the worker, and has the same attitude of "you're easily replaceable".
