It is well known, though rarely acknowledged, that with success one becomes a target, this is true for individuals, corporations, and nations. In the annals of corporate success, no firm can compare with the Wal-Mart, the retailer, has gone from a marginal player in rural Arkansas, to the nation’s largest employer and one of the world’s most successful companies. To achieve this goal Wal-Mart has been a vigorous competitor in the national and international retail market. With that success, Wal-Mart has naturally been targeted by the friends of the idle, the dredges of society, the socialists, the LCDs, the entitlement generation and those who have simply rested on their laurels while others applied the requisite elbow grease needed to become an individual success.

Critics charge that Wal-Mart’s wages are too low, that it skimps on health care costs and is a threat to small business. Such charges, are without merit and are championed by those with little or no understanding of economics and those who decry the concept of individual responsibility. Indeed, Wal-Mart pays an appropriate wage for what is essential unskilled labor, performed by employees whose value to a firm is largely limited. Should Wal-Mart shoulder the blame for those who chose not to pay attention in school, for those who lacked an appreciation for hard work, rendering their opportunities for success fairly limited? Is Wal-Mart to blame for the bad decisions and poor choices of the poor and various low-income earners? If anything, Wal-Mart should be commended for hiring these entitlement minded socialists who expect others to reward them for their failures.

Into this scenario walks former UN Ambassador and Atlanta mayor, Andrew Young. Young, a civil rights activists and former MLK confidant. Young has taken a position with Wal-Mart. Young has long been a champion of economic opportunity and sees Wal-Mart as a means of reviving long decayed neighborhoods. For his support of Wal-Mart, however, Young has been vilified by his fellow “activists” who view this action as an affront to the poor and the down trodden. "Maybe he knows something that other advocates for economic justice don't," said Rev. Joseph Lowery, another Atlanta civil rights leader.

If Lowery and other Young critics were indeed activists for “economic justice” as they call it, they would be the most vocal critics of those who believe it is within their purview to demand reward regardless of merit. Justice demands that those who work hard meet with success and those who squander opportunities and fail to pursue their education or look to others for handouts should become failures.
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