[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Wal-Mart did a lot of work to find it's suppliers. we would get stuck paying that cost if we went hunting ourselves.

I was echoing Physicist, and his point was that we go to WalMart to get things, not to give money to WalMart's employees or anyone else.

Anyone who thinks that a WalMart employee should have more money can remedy that situation by the simple expedient of reaching in their wallets and giving him the money they think he should have.

[.cnI redruM]

Very true. However, we tend to think most corporations have a bottomless money pit somewhere that churns out stock options on demand. They never seem to realize otherwise until it's too late and an airline pension fund crashes and burns.