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Even the GD Wall Street Journal is preaching gloom and doom, and kissing immigrant @$$. I don't know what's gotten into those boys.
The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, support among the intelligentsia, and -- perhaps most important -- allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who "care." But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.c_I_c:
As Rush has been pointing out, it is no joke that the Democrats are so desperate to have more poor people to boast of their "compassion" for that they are determined to import them from Mexico - or anywhere else - by the tens of millions.Thomas Sowell
People who truly cared would want to know what the actual consequences of minimum wage laws are -- on which there is evidence from around the world that it creates unemployment. . . .c_I_c:Most of the people in the bottom 20 percent are not full-time, year-around workers . . . There are, in fact, more heads of household who are full-time, year-around workers in the top 5 percent than in the bottom 20 percent.
. . But why risk a heady vision over mere facts?
Liberals are motivated to nurture the idea of their own superiority much more than they are motivated by any actual desire to help people stop being poor. IOW, they cultivate their own "self-esteem" in the same way that they assay to cultivate the "self-esteem" of schoolkids. All show, no go.People wonder why "the MSM" is populated exclusively with liberals; it is in fact obvious. Journalism makes its money by superficiality ("there's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper") and negativity ("If it bleeds, it leads"). And that is a perfect description of the liberal. All show, no go.
The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.