Faced with 8.9% unemployment Sacramento eased restrictions on superstores

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run

out of other people's money."

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

With unemployment increasing in California even the Left-wing loons in Sacramento have moved to help business grow, create jobs and increase taxes to the treasury.

The Democrat run Sacramento City Council eased the city's restrictions of big-box superstores Tuesday night following a contentious two-hour debate that pitted some of the region's top business interests against influential labor leaders.

By a 6-2 vote, the council erased most of a 2006 ordinance that required superstore chains to conduct wage and benefit studies of nearby businesses before being permitted to build new facilities.

Complex economic impact studies will also be waived for stores seeking to expand, or open in "food deserts" or some major planned developments reports the Sacramento Bee.

In Sacramento, unemployment rose to 8.9 percent from 8.4 percent in June reports the Fresno Bee.

The City Council chambers were packed for the hearing, with those who opposed easing the restrictions outnumbering those who advocated for easing the restrictions by a 2-1 margin.

Labor leaders, small business representatives and neighborhood activists urged the council to keep the 2006 ordinance in place. Many of those speakers were greeted with applause by members of the audience after speaking.

Building trades group and business organizations led the push to ease the restrictions.