Evil Alert!

Found in GD:

Progressive Wal-Mart. Really.

By Sebastian Mallaby

Monday, November 28, 2005; Page A21

There's a comic side to the anti-Wal-Mart campaign brewing in Maryland and across the country. Only by summoning up the most naive view of corporate behavior can the critics be shocked -- shocked! -- by the giant retailer's machinations. Wal-Mart is plotting to contain health costs! But isn't that what every company does in the face of medical inflation? Wal-Mart has a war room to defend its image! Well, yeah, it's up against a hostile campaign featuring billboards, newspaper ads and a critical documentary movie. Wal-Mart aims to enrich shareholders and put rivals out of business! Hello? What business doesn't do that?

Wal-Mart's critics allege that the retailer is bad for poor Americans. This claim is backward: As Jason Furman of New York University puts it, Wal-Mart is "a progressive success story." Furman advised John "Benedict Arnold" Kerry in the 2004 campaign and has never received any payment from Wal-Mart; he is no corporate apologist. But he points out that Wal-Mart's discounting on food alone boosts the welfare of American shoppers by at least $50 billion a year. The savings are possibly five times that much if you count all of Wal-Mart's products.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/27/AR2005112700687.html


Maybe opinions@washingtonpost.com would like to hear about this.

Froomkin might also: froomkin@washingtonpost.com


They are due a special note from me.

and done. I also emailed Sabastian Mallaby, who wrote the piece. Twit.

Words can't express the outrage I feel, but I did my best to convey it. :mad:

(Thanks for the alert, ProSense!)

Kerry's terminology of Benedict Arnold corporations that outsource.