Wal-Mart eyes aggressive growth

I almost missed this last night - a sign of continued growth in the economy:

Wal-Mart to Open About 1,500 New Stores

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open more than 1,500 stores in the United States in the coming years, on top of nearly 3,200 it already operates, the world's largest retailer said Tuesday.

I assume that most of those, along with the thousands of new jobs they'll create, will reside outside of Maryland - right, union puppets? Here's another bit of trivia about economic growth outside of the Old Line State:

Wal-Mart opened 69 new stores and Sam's Clubs in January, a company record for one month, it announced last week.

With that kind of growth, one has to wonder where UFCW and it's WakeUpWalMart appendage will find enough bodies to populate the anti-growth, anti-business picket lines. Hmmm... I wonder where a union can get minimum wage, no-benefit, stand-in-the-sun-all-day-with-only-2-minute-breaks workers to take the load off union staff so they can help workers achieve better wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions? Hmmm?

Maybe they could ask the carpenter's union for advice.

Update (3:28 PM): Maybe there's a chance that a few of those job-creating, economy-boosting new stores might eventually find their way into Maryland after all.