Big Business joins forces with the Left ~ By Roger Hedgecock

From WorldNetDaily

By Roger Hedgecock Posted: October 19, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 While employers large and small grapple with the cost implications of complicated health insurance "reform," Wal-Mart spends millions for TV ads extolling the virtues of government-run health care. Until recently, health insurance companies also supported health insurance "reform," which would put new government agencies in charge of defining coverage terms, prescriptions and even treatments. While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce fights the job-killing effects of "cap and trade," Apple and Nike endorse climate-change legislation and leave the Chamber Board of Directors in protest. Why are some international icons of American enterprise "going green" – or, as some would say, "going red"? Here's why: They'll make money doing it. The Left has long promoted a "new economy" of selected companies within every industry "guided" not by Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of competition, but by the velvet glove (covering a steel fist) of government – for "fairness," for "social justice," to "save the planet!" Well, this vision is coming into focus in the first year of Obama, but the Left might regret the outcome. Take Wal-Mart, for example. Bedeviled for years by Labor for thwarting all efforts to unionize its workforce, rising above Labor-backed "boycott Wal-Mart" campaigns to become the No. 1 employer in the private sector in the U.S., Wal-Mart got tired of playing defense. The TV ad campaign in favor of President Obama's health insurance "reform" caught the Left by surprise. Suddenly, Wal-Mart was cool again. The MSM discarded the "Wal-Mart as evil" theme and adopted the new "Wal-Mart as good corporate citizen" theme. The Left and the MSM were both fooled. Wal-Mart had long provided health insurance to its employees, a price it paid along with pay increases to keep its employees non-union. Smaller Wal-Mart competitors do not offer employee health plans, or, if they do, with much less coverage. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]