Wal-Mart and the Culture Wars

I was pleased this evening to see Professor John McAdams post an op-ed column he had written for the Heartland Institute defending Wal-Mart against left-wing criticism that the business giant is decimating small town businesses and not providing competitive wages. As an associate of Wal-Mart for the summer (and I was surprised to hear that GOP3.com’s own Brian Collar was once a Wal-Mart employee as well) I have become familiar with the inner-workings of the corporation giant, at least as far as management goes from a single store perspective, and though I certainly have my quips against Wal-Mart, mainly with how things are run in the backroom and others issues which I will refrain from discussing at this point, but I hardly see Wal-Mart’s success in the free-market environment a threat to the economic freedom of America. If anything, it is a shining example of how capitalism, as opposed to static liberal socialism (and/or communism), works.