Wal-Mart is American liberalism's favorite corporate punching bag, and the pugilists of the day are Sens. Ted Kennedy and Jon Corzine and Rep. Anthony D. Weiner.Wal-Mart is American liberalism's favorite corporate punching bag, and the pugilists of the day are Sens. Ted Kennedy For other persons named Ted Kennedy, see Ted Kennedy (disambiguation). Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. and Jon Corzine Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is the Governor of New Jersey. He was sworn into office on January 17, 2006, for a four-year term ending in 2010. He represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2001 until 2006, when he stepped down to take his seat as and Rep. Anthony D. Weiner Anthony David Weiner (born September 4, 1964) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of New York. He represents New York's 9th congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. . This trio has introduced a bill that would require states to report the names of large companies whose employees receive government-funded health care. Here's Weiner: "Part of the plan is to embarrass embarrass /em·bar·rass/ (em-bar´as) to impede the function of; to obstruct. em·bar·rass v. To interfere with or impede (a bodily function or part). companies like Wal-Mart." And Kennedy: "Every worker in America is paying a part of their taxes to pay for Wal-Mart" (the idea being that, if Wal-Mart provided more benefits, its employees wouldn't rely on government programs). Now the issue is not whether Wal-Mart offers health insurance; it does--but not on terms Kennedy approves of. Suppose Wal-Mart agreed to such terms. When the corresponding decline in its profits required it to lay off employees, and these employees filed for welfare, Kennedy could say, "Every worker in America is paying a part of their taxes to pay for Wal-Mart." Let us debate the wisdom of emulating the welfare-state economics that has brought Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). its famous growth of late. But don't let's pretend, like Kennedy, that there are no tradeoffs. |
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