Wal-Mart, the bete noir of the left is being targeted because it has out competed other businesses and hasn't provided its employees the welfare state benefits the left thinks it should. Microsoft, on the other hand is just fine, despite its monopoly and having driven smaller companies out of business, because it has made many of its employees millionaires. And the biggest, richest of all the Microsoft fortune is being poured into a foundation along with most of Warren Buffet's fortune to lavish on the third world. I wonder if they've teach third worlders how to build their economies through monopoly and get rich like Bill Gates. Not likely.

In other words, the left doesn't believe in free enterprise, no matter how much it benefits consumers. That, by itself, is enough reason to keep it out of power. Wal-Mart hasn't done anything illegal or immoral. it's been fair to its customers and was able to deliver assistance to New Orleans when government was baffled. Its enemies are the snobs who don't shop there, don't like its stores in their neighborhood and object to its efficiency and selling products from countries without our standard of living. These are the people who will always find reasons and excuses to interfere in our lives in the name of environment, aesthetics, taste or in the name of the poor.