The tale of a leaked Walmart memo must make libertarians and ojectivists beam with pride at that firm's grasping of the inherent truths of their belief systems:

An internal memo sent to Wal-Mart's board of directors proposes numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits while seeking to minimize damage to the retailer's reputation. Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart. In the memorandum, M. Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart's executive vice president for benefits, also recommends reducing 401(k) contributions and wooing younger, and presumably healthier, workers by offering education benefits. The memo voices concern that workers with seven years' seniority earn more than workers with one year's seniority, but are no more productive.

I think it is just unfortunate that the nanny state is keeping firms from hiring people with even less seniority by maintaining madatory public education for those sixteen and under. In Canada we, of course, compound the madness by removing health costs from the individual employer's consideration and enforce human rights against discrimination in employment based on health issues. Sheer insanity. We clearly do not know our place.