“In these upcoming battles, legislators should be mindful that companies like Wal-Mart are not the enemy but rather frontline soldiers in a real war on poverty. The profit motive leads them to seek out areas where there is much idle labor and put it to work. Where they are prevented or discouraged from doing so, the alternative job prospect is rarely a cushy spot in the bureaucracy. Rather, it is continued idleness and hardship”. –Steve Hanke and Stephen Walters, Professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and Professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland respectively, in a post in the Wall Street Journal detailing the attack on the poor by big labor