Marie, were do you live and why are you so anxious to sell products through Walmart made in China we buy that cost American jobs?

Marie, from what I have heard in all of the debates and/or political press releases and discussions is that both candidates do not feel the Walmart is a good idea in the proposed location on Hospital Road. I understand the desired location is the Bellport Outlets just south of Sunrise Highway. This location may not be as big as they wanted, but it is a great alternative location AND an opportunity to bring jobs to the community.
Judy Pepenella
Resident of Patchogue

Oh, yes. Because all these entry-level pissant jobs is exactly what Patchogue needs.

Pissant Jobs? What is wrong with having a job at any pay. No one is forcing anyone to work if they don't want too. As for products made in China? what do you expect, when our people won't work for Min wage. Have you notice that the Illegals have the Jobs our lazy Kids won't do. I agree the location is a bad choice, but Politicians vote to save their jobs, not because they care about keeping Wal-mart out. If the majority of voters like the location then they will approve of the application. Get real folks, Wal-mart brings Jobs and Low cost products that everyone need.

Let's bring high paying R&D jobs to LI, not low paying retail. We have enough of those.

The reason why everything these days is made in China is because US Corporations want to increase their earnings by hiring cheap labor. Don't blame China blame the greedy US Corporations that take US jobs oversea. Where is Corporate America allegiance? It's not to to America or it's citizens but to it's bottom line. They are no longer content with making a quality product here and letting americans make a decent honest living and still turning a profit. After all is said and done the reason there are so many americans out of work is because of Corporate Greed! Come on people don't you get it. You can't buy an american made product if you even wanted, So who's fault is that?

Thank you all for your responses but I see it this way, any job in today's economy is a blessing no matter where it is or who is offering it a long as it is respectable and offers some means of income which in my opinion is better than none at this point. I understand all of the concerns we have in general, because after all we are a group of people who care what happens in our neighborhoods, but nothing is a total guarantee and frankly we owe it to ourselves and to our children to do SOMETHING to lessen the burden it seems we will be leaving them with. As for Walmart or any other company offering job stability is concerned, location is a important to the community and to the company itself since it will require the efforts of both to make it successful. Isn't it obvious that the end would justify the means? I sincerely hope those who oppose such a great benefit to our pockets, would rethink and reconsider the strategy here. We can't all have our cakes and eat it too but we can choose to do something about what is surely lacking in our lives right now and it seems it would be a far better idea to have than to have not a t this point.
Marie Kocher

It wouldbe nice to say that any job is better than none, but when Walmart emloyees have to go on medicaid and apply for food stamps, who do you think is paying for them, us, not Walmart. I agree with pissed off american that this just keeps fostering more low paying jobs both her and in China. If you need cheap chinese made goods, go to the dollar stores.

Sure Walmart will supply jobs, then all the other stores in the Medford, Patchogue, Bellport and surrounding areas will go out of business and they can go to apply at Walmart for a lower paying job, get inferior products and have empty stores all through out the area - all because of Walmart. NO THANK YOU. Walmart is NOT good for this area or where they want to put it. If NYC doesn't want a Walmart, why would E Patchogue want one? This will be the death toll of family run businesss that produce quality products, that keep money in the community and has products made in the USA. Walmart is 100% WRONG for our area.

I was a salaried manager at Wal-Mart. It's current existence is a testimony to the incredibly bad NObama economy. With its caste system -- store associates and everyone else -- WM workers can only be described as desparate, and Bentonville knows it. That's how it gets away with incredibly inept corporate management, buggy-whip era technology and draconian, brow beating, threatening management to force its store associates to accept unbelievably bad working conditions. All, so that more than .50 of every dollar earned can go to the money-grubbing Waltons, like that drunken sot Alice who has been arrested for DWI numerous times, one involving a fatality. As much as I hate unions -- the best thing that could happen for WM associates is to get unionized. I cannot for the life of me understand how a company at this time and in this century can get away with an employee situation that rivals anything from a Dickens-era novel.