Liberals have two equal but opposite, irrational emotions: one is their hatred of Wal-Mart, because the workers refuse to unionize, and the other is their wild-eyed love of recycling. Ain't it funny when the two collide with a dumb, confused liberal right in the middle?Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.
The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ''What could be worse than Wal-Mart?''
Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he's gotten an answer: RPM Recycling -- the metal-shredding plant on the same land -- causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.
Everybody's got to do their part and sacrifice for the environment, right Walt? Old Walt's property value is probably half of what it would have been if he'd not fought Wal-Mart. There's probably a karmic price for me to pay for taking such pleasure in Walt's pain and frustration but, I just can't help it.
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I disagree with your glee at this persons bad fortune. What makes you so sure he is a liberal? I know plenty of people of all persuasions who wouldn't want a Walmart in their neighborhood, having NOTHING to do with Unions. And of course, if he had known the choice was a recycling plant, he would have accepted the Walmart. The real question is, how were he and his neighbors able to defeat Walmart but not the recycler.
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