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Why Liberal Ideas Are Counterproductive for the Poor?
realclearpolitics.com ^ | June 11, 2005 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 06/11/2005 11:07:01 AM PDT by MikeHu

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This may be the best thing he's ever written -- and he seems to be getting better all the time. His strength is talking as the common man -- and not the univeristy professor.
1 posted on 06/11/2005 11:07:01 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: MikeHu
3 words for ya....cycle of dependency.
2 posted on 06/11/2005 11:10:01 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (10,000 posts by 29 June!!! 9,682 or so replies and counting)
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To: MikeHu

A hand out is not help.


3 posted on 06/11/2005 11:10:36 AM PDT by marty60
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To: MikeHu

Liberals have a need to be needed -- because they are not loved.


4 posted on 06/11/2005 11:13:38 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: MikeHu

What liberals have done to the poor black man, the KKK used to only dream about. The devastation they have wrought upon them with just a few crumbs and years of lies and broken promises, just boggles the mind.


5 posted on 06/11/2005 11:19:42 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! (ours, not theirs!))
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To: Ron in Acreage

The great crime of all liberals is not allowing people to think for themselves.

They always demand that they must do the thinking for everybody else -- as well as the speaking; and while we're at it, we can just go ahead and pay them all the money.


6 posted on 06/11/2005 11:25:49 AM PDT by MikeHu
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Many low-level jobs are called "dead-end jobs" by liberal intellectuals because these jobs have no promotions ladder. But it is superficial beyond words to say that this means that people in such jobs have no prospect of rising economically.

Almost any job (including many career-type jobs that intellectuals fawn over) are 'dead-end jobs.' The idea is to increase your skill set, do good work, and get promoted to another role, or change companies to a place that will give you a chance. I've worked (among other things) as an intern at a public tv station, a paralegal, a law firm computer guy, an attorney, and each job led to a 'dead end.' I advanced by being flexible and willing to change my role or my company.

A friend of mine in Las Vegas was looking for work and finally 2 weeks ago got a job as a shill player in one of the town's poker rooms. He was down about it, but I said it was a start and as crappy as it is, since he is smart he would get a break. about a week and a half into his run, he got promoted to helping run a poker room shift - a solid raise, to boot! As much of a 'dead end' his first job seemed, he was flexible and aggressive and impressed them in short time.

It's more about attitude and flexibility than the nature of any given job.

7 posted on 06/11/2005 11:26:38 AM PDT by HitmanLV
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Being a reporter or a school teacher is also a dead end job.


9 posted on 06/11/2005 11:30:53 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! (ours, not theirs!))
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Don't you know? Good intentions are much more important that actual results.

I told a co-worker of mine something that I've heard Larry Elder say on his show..."equal rights" does not mean "equal results".

10 posted on 06/11/2005 11:31:53 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("So...according to the UN, weapons that never existed are missing...again!" -Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Ron in Acreage

Exactly!


11 posted on 06/11/2005 11:35:52 AM PDT by HitmanLV
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Liberals seem to be very impressed by their phony status jobs; they think they have risen in this world if they get paid a lot of money for doing nothing. They ridicule people for working hard and doing something useful. Doing something useful is the ultimate liberal sin.

In their universe, one should be obstructive and ensure that nothing ever gets done -- so more high-paying jobs can be created to solve problems that get worse -- because of their interference.


12 posted on 06/11/2005 11:36:40 AM PDT by MikeHu
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I agree and like I said, there is nothing notable about their jobs - I know, I worked in careers that they tend to be impressed with!


13 posted on 06/11/2005 11:37:24 AM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: wolf24

And boy don't they get really pissed off when you point out that very lack of results when their theories are put in use. They accuse you of being hard hearted, racist, mean spirited, ad nauseum.


15 posted on 06/11/2005 11:39:22 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: Ron in Acreage

Reporters and school teachers are counterproductive jobs; their aim is to produce more ignorance, misinformation and disinformation -- to increase the need for more information and education high-paying jobs..


16 posted on 06/11/2005 11:40:45 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: nuke rocketeer

Liberals are entirely self-serving and self-aggrandizing. I wish they'd leave the poor and oppressed out of their justifications anymore -- because when they speak of the "poor and oppressed," they're referring to themselves -- the truly deserving of all the money they can pilfer intended for the poor and oppressed.


17 posted on 06/11/2005 11:47:56 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: MikeHu
Annoy a liberal:
Work hard, succeed,
be happy.

19 posted on 06/11/2005 11:55:25 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (You should be TERRIfied that you may someday be SCHIAVOed to death!)
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To: wolf24

And did you know that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.


20 posted on 06/11/2005 11:56:56 AM PDT by marty60
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