The New Colossus

Who’s the biggest, baddest company of them all? Wal-Mart, of course, leader of the Fortune 500 list and the largest employer in America (next to the government, that is). Wal-Mart is also the largest employer in Mexico (again, next to the government). The company has 1.4 million employees worldwide, and it has made its investors a ton of money. In short, this is a classic American success story, and free-market success story. Therefore, the company has a lot of enemies.

In fact, Wal-Mart is featuring in Democratic campaign rhetoric, and other rhetoric, as a villain, along with Enron and Halliburton. Is this wise of politicians, considering that 100 million people shop at Wal-Mart every week? We’ll leave that to the political strategists.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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Who’s the biggest, baddest company of them all? Wal-Mart, of course, leader of the Fortune 500 list and the largest employer in America (next to the government, that is). Wal-Mart is also the largest employer in Mexico (again, next to the government). The company has 1.4 million employees worldwide, and it has made its investors a ton of money. In short, this is a classic American success story, and free-market success story. Therefore, the company has a lot of enemies.

In fact, Wal-Mart is featuring in Democratic campaign rhetoric, and other rhetoric, as a villain, along with Enron and Halliburton. Is this wise of politicians, considering that 100 million people shop at Wal-Mart every week? We’ll leave that to the political strategists.