[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[The Iguana]

The real issue, I've decided, isn't just the campus and its workers, but the state. According to the North Carolina Justice and Economic Development Center, 60 percent of North Carolina families with children do not earn enough to meet basic, bare-bone needs.

I find that hard to believe.

[LS]

I require this book for my course, then have my students critique it. They see right through her. (For balance, by the way, I also simulataneously have them read "The Millionaire Next Door/The Millionaire Mind").

The students' comments about her book never identify the very worst excesses, but they are sufficient to blow her out of the water.

[AppyPappy]

At a union organizing meeting held in a motel meeting room, for example, he noticed the workers covertly pocketing packets of Saltines left from a previous event.

Bullshit. The unions in NC are eat up with thugs, communists and criminals. If NC is so bad, why is it growing so fast? She's a bigot, selling her prejudice against people of different regions.

[ModelBreaker]

As for Jesus being a socialist, I take it back. He was actually a little to the left of that, judging from his instruction to the rich man to sell all that he had and give to the poor.

LOL. She SO misunderstands the Gospels. Socialism is forcing OTHER people to help the poor while the Socialist gets to pretend he/she is a great philanthropist. The duty of Christians to help the poor is a personal (not a collective) duty. There is little salvation to be had in being forced to help the poor.

If that's what it takes to be a true Christian, believe me, it's a hell of a lot easier to be a socialist: You have to dedicate yourself to working for the poor, just as a Christian should, but at least you get to keep your stuff.

Well, the Socialist gets to keep his stuff. But the productive citizens have theirs taken at the point of a gun. But I guess that's the whole point of being a Socialist. You make it, I spend it, I get credit for being a good guy and I get to revile you. Pretty good deal if you can carry it off.

[Question_Assumptions]

Although she is a leftist, I cut her some slack because she isn't entirely hopeless. She did co-author one of my favorite articles against feminist pseudo-science.