He basically presented the entire thesis of Marx and Engels short of saying, "Workers of the world, unite!"
May God help us.
Wasn’t he quoting his grandmother?
“Unfortunately, poor people have never learned to think of and conduct themselves as a voting bloc; historically, they have proved too readily divisible, usually by race.”
Dr. Sowell has stated that the vast majority of the “poor” don’t stay in that category, but move up the economic ladder.
I’ll bet the vast majority of freepers were “poor” when they started, but pressed on with life and succeeded.
Secondly, the “poor” in this country live like kings compared to the truly poor people in other countries. U.S. “poor” have cars, TVs, cellphones, refridgerators, food, money, etc.
I guess the benevolent liberals throwing the poor dog bones the last seventy some odd years has managed to herd the stray pack.
That is because people cannot choose their gender or ethnicity but poverty (at least for adults) is a choice. Walter Williams has a fantastic article about this which he sums up thusly:
Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior.
Jews black people women poor people
One of these things is not like the others.
Dear Lenard,
Perhaps you should try this experiment,
Open your back door, leave a sack of
cat food open. Try this for three months
and you’ll see the rightness of this
argument.
That’s what the sister of a late friend of mine
does. “They’re hungry.” As wild cats roam over
her house, walk on her counter tops, and spray
all over the place...the litterbox is always
overflowing.
This woman is a Matre’d in a very high end
resturant but if you could see her house you
wouldn’t want her standing near your table.
Once I watched a woman in line in front of me buy lobster with food stamps. I was infuriated since we couldn't afford to with cash.
My daughter, an ER nurse tells me people come in with all sorts of the latest technological gadgets, blackberrys, nails and hair done, gold teeth, overweight and ask for food while waiting on the doctor. And oh BTW no insurance.
“Give someone a fish, they'll eat for a day. Teach them to fish....” Somehow we have a disconnect, we need to stop giving them fish.
There are those that are truly down on their luck, for the lazy, I have no compassion
when I was a engineering undergraduate, lived off of ramen noodles and a part time job. I was “homeless” once my junior year. My grades never suffered. By all accounts I was beyond poor, but I was not eligible for “aid”. I was eligible for loans that I would have to pay back, i never took them!
Leonard Pitts is a chronic barf alert. That man couldn’t write a decent, sane, non-race baiting article by accident.