Change Never Comes

So much for change.

Steve Detrick votes in favor of a new Elk Grovian Wal-Mart! Horray! Let's throw a fucking parade, shall we, and celebrate the opening of yet another big box retail center! Run a parade down Elk Grove Blvd., celebrating the opening of another cheaply built warehouse, celebrating the destruction of any sense of community within a six thousand yard radius because of the oceans of asphalt and concrete needed to service the store, its consumers, and their parking needs, and celebrating the continued destruction of our local environment.

This new WalMart will be less than 100,000 square feet, on the corner of Bruceville and Poppy Ridge -- actually pretty far south of me. And all the new ancillary retailers are eagerly awaiting it's installation so volume can move through the strip mall, consumer volume. These little satellite retailers will be cellularized telephone retail, bible books, Asian foot parlors and take-n'-bake pizza shacks. The usual suburban shit. Nothing with any redeeming value.

Mr. Detrick, I gave him the moniker "the Sarah Palin of Elk Grove," how he led a grass roots effort to prevent a WalMart supercenter near his home. Now look at this fucking meathead -- he claimed there was a problem with one WalMart over 250,000 sq. ft., near his home, but there's no problem with two WalMarts each less than 100,000 sq. ft. a few miles away from his home. What's the difference, huh?

There isn't any difference, and he's no different than Mike Leary. He'll bring jobs to Elk Grove, yeah, so said his campaign promises. Good paying, community supporting jobs, too. And he did! Scores of nine dollar an hour retail associates! Wa-hey! Two of them could easily, easily! afford the median income suburban shitbox here in town, right? And the two cars they'll need to drive themselves to work, because E-tran doesn't run there yet.

Yep, the retail associates can live and work here in town. No longer will homeowners have to drive north to Sacramento, Ranch Cordova, or Folsom for jobs, and no longer will poor South Sacramentans have to drive south to work at the WalMart...because of the massive wages selling all that Chinese shit will bring.


This city is going to get what it deserves. It will someday run out of cheap land to "develop," run out of new strip malls, neighborhoods will turn into the suburban shitholes that Del Paso Heights and Valley Hi have become, and still have no sustainable job core. It will carve out a four lane expressway through the east side, destroying the character of the original agri-based culture of the region, all in an effort to shuttle commuters back and forth to northern job centers. When Elk Grove and the rest of this wretchedly sad social experiment fails, I will be the one throwing a parade.