OK My remarks at 7 were not Wal-Mart specific but aimed at the situation that the NAFTA type promise of 'trade bringing good paying jobs to America' is not met by the Wal-Marts. The limbo of how low can you go in paying people is not a long range solution to economic prosperity.
Actually, it is -- sort of. Economic prosperity by definition doesn't necessarily mean that high-paying jobs are plentiful (since "high-paying job" is a very relative term), but that a society as a whole enjoys a high standard of living.