>>>I do not begrudge the Walton family their assets. They worked very hard to earn them
>How do you know that?
>Sam Walton (RIP) was a brilliant businessman, but his children?
>We'll never know that they might have done if born into poverty.
>You've mentioned handouts several times.
>If there ever were handouts, the Walton children got whoppers.

Now here is a story. During the grocery market part of my career I worked in Dallas at Cullum Companies, the operator of the Tom Thumb stores. Wal-Mart had not yet entered the grocery market (they are now #1) and went into a joint venture with a hypermarket with Cullum in east Dallas to learn how it was done. As part of the preliminaries Cullum's CEO, Jack Evans, Jr., the former mayor of Dallas, flew to Bensenville to meet with Sam Walton. Sam picked him up personally in a beat-up red pickup. It broke down. So there were two of the wealthiest men in the United States stranded by the side of the road.