Hey! Virginia has elected Karl Marx!
During the campaign, Webb often spoke about the growing divide between the rich and the poor, a divide he said risks tearing American society apart. He said Tuesday he hopes to begin addressing the problem through measures such as increasing the minimum wage and examining the fairness of corporate tax breaks.
What is causing the "growing divide" between the "rich" and the "poor?" A few decades ago, a "rich guy", (for example, a guy like Webb with a fancy law degree) was typically married to a stay-at-home wife. Today said "rich guy" is typically married to a woman who also has a fancy law degree and big income. Meanwhile, the poor are still mostly single-parent families. Result: the divide between the haves and have-nots has grown wider.
The Webbs appear to be a classic example of this phenomenon. You'd think Webb could figure out what is going on when it is right under his nose.
If he wants to narrow the divide, he'll have to introduce legislation requiring high-powered women to work less or not at all. (That should go over big with his wife.)
He did have a tendency to quote Marx on the campaign trail.
We had a War on Poverty and the poor won. There are as many of them now as ever, so I think we need an immediate exit strategy from this war, which has lasted much, much longer than WWII.
Libs always think there's a legislative answer to everything. They choose not to see that, by and large, where you end up economically in this country is the result of your behavior and choices. There are behaviors that help you do well economically (get an education including learning the basics of financial management, get a job, then marry, then have children) and behavior that will cause you to be poor (don't get an education, have no idea how to handle the little money you do have, and crank out baby after baby with no dad in sight.)
We need to declare the War on Poverty over, and withdraw our Health and Human Services employees from the front lines.