Nobody lovers a boogeyman more than liberals and the flavor of the month is Wal-Mart.

Their crime?

Too efficient, too profitable, too successful. Nothing riles up a self-righteous liberal like some hard earned success and very few companies, if any, are as successful as Wal-Mart.

Democratic Senator Joseph Biden responded to Wal-Mart paying workers $10 an hour by saying “How can you live a middle-class life on that?”

A few things for Mr. Biden and his fellow Wal-Mart bashers should think about. Wal-Mart did not promise a middle class life. $10 an hour is double the federal minimum wage and many of their thousands of employees are second incomes, students, retirees looking to keep busy and those transitioning to another career.

It is well worth remembering that not a single Wal-Mart employee is forced to work there, not is a single Wal-Mart shopper forced to shop there.

If a community truly didn’t want Wal-Mart in their midst, they would refuse to work for them and refuse to shop there. Why won’t that happen? Because, people needs jobs and people love deals and Wal-Mart provides both. They have prices well below anyone else in the industry and that’s important – especially to the low-income families that frequent the stores.

I am reminded of the old Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan movie You’ve Got Mail. We’re supposed to despise Tom Hanks for opening big bad Fox Books superstore and running little quant Shop Around the Corner out of business. However, Hanks did not run her out of business, the community did. He legally opened a competitive business and the community spoke loud and clear – they preferred doing business at the big bookstores.

Wal-Mart is a successful, solid, profitable company. If you don’t like them, don’t work for them and don’t shop there, but don’t pretend that they’re evil and that they owe you anything other than what they promise – a decent job and fairly priced merchandise.