Monthly Archives: November 2016

* Liberals are biased against the white poor

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Study Shows Public Help Racial Bias On The Right — And Left

The bias reflects belief in the politically correct dogma that racism is the sole cause of poverty.

In fact, two thirds of America’s poor are white. Thus racism cannot be the sole cause.

You’d never know that from the mainstream media, however.  For example, in a July pictorial in U.S. News and World Report, “The New Faces of U.S. Poverty,” every face is black.

We’ll never understand black poverty until we understand white poverty.  And the existence of white poverty, currently, the Left denies.

Reblogged 11/21/24.

o Grow the pie, or re-slice it?

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(Originally posted 09/30/13.)

Here comes the spoils society

Don’t let that odd title put you off. I think this op-ed by Robert J. Samuelson is pretty important.

The question is whether we direct the economy so as to increase wealth for everyone, or instead merely give poorer or richer people larger pieces of the “pie.”

In my conversations with other homeless folk and poor people generally, I hope to emphasize the desirability of creating wealth as opposed to merely taking it away from others.

On that point, I’m certainly prone to agree with Andy Kessler, though I have uneasiness as to whether or not he would support corresponding policies.

Other recent articles on similar questions:

An Obituary for the American Middle Class
Race, income, education increasingly polarize U.S. families since recession
Higher education’s biggest challenge is income inequality

As to Catharine Hill’s piece, I really have to question what “special services” rich families are “demanding” that are bidding up tuition costs.