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July 10, 2005
Angry and Ignorant
I have just read an amusing article, "Urban Archipelago", that reads like someone's primal scream after a sympathetic but more rational editor insisted on substituting some of the rage for lucidity. The targets of this venomous essay are many, but for my purposes I would like to focus on one that has become something of a default whipping boy for the Left in recent years: Wal-Mart. You see, this article, and in particular the irrational attacks on Wal-Mart, is illustrative of the extent to which some in the Democratic Party, a party for which this registered Independent still harbors warm feelings, has lost its mind.
Passages such as the one below speak of a woeful ignorance of basic economics:
"We will pass laws mandating a living wage for full-time work, upping the minimum wage for part-time work, and requiring large corporations to either offer health benefits or pay into state- or city-run funds to provide health care for uninsured workers. That will reform Wal-Mart in our blue cities and states or, better yet, keep Wal-Mart out entirely."
Wal-Mart, and all the other success stories of our capitalist system exist because we made them. As citizens of the country in which these companies were founded, as customers, as investors, or in all three roles, we can each be proud of the accomplishments of firms such as Wal-Mart, and should take offense when pundits speak blithely of creating a nakedly hostile business environment for the purpose of artificially checking their growth.
The arrogant superiority of the authors of this piece is offensive and sad (conservatives can be equally arrogant and superior, but that is a separate matter). Our dynamic economy and the firms which thrive in it comprise the foundation of our republic, and neither party should speak lightly of undermining that foundation.
Posted by Audi Partem Alteram at July 10, 2005 03:57 AM
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