The fact that there are poor people in our country is only a statistical one. Someone has to occupy the lower 20 percent of income earners. And those in lowest 20% have to be labelled poor in order to keep the vast array of poverty bureaucrats employed.
We will never be rid of "poverty" because so many people have a vested interest continuing it.
We will never be rid of "poverty" because so many people have a vested interest continuing it.
True. And the same is true for race pimping. Years ago Booker T. Washington said this:
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs.
It's as if Mr. Washington knew that race pimps like Jackson and Sharpton would be around some day.