A Liberal Faces Up to The Wal-Mart Phenomenon. Almost

What do we liberals do about Wal-Mart, worries liberal Robert Reich? Let’s admit it, we liberals all
buy books from Amazon, even if we say we like the community bookstore round the corner. So how can we get
low prices while helping the little guy?
Cartels and regulation: that’s
his highly advanced and sophisticated answer. Come on, Reich. You liberals can do better than that.
I thought that conservatives were supposed to be the standpatters. The bottom
line is that if we Americans want to earn princely salaries, then we have to earn it, by being better trained, better
capitalized, better managed, and better educated.
You liberals are uniquely qualified to do something about that.
You yourselves can go down the street to the education cartel—you know, the one called the National Education
Assocation—and tell them to get with the program. When you’ve done that, and the education system becomes flexible and responsive to the needs
of its customers, then let us start talking about cartels and social regulation.