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From Wonkette
http://wonkette.com/539561
Good news, Poors! David Brooks has decided to take on the topic of income inequality, and has concluded that 1) income inequality is not actually a problem, and 2) if it were, we shouldnt solve it by giving poor people more money, and also 3) the growing income of the 1% has nothing to do with the shrinking incomes of the rest of us. Hear that? NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
Here, let the man with the 4 million dollar home explain to us why giving money to poor people will be of absolutely no help to them.
more at link.
They're not even trying to hide their idiocy any more.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)to make unlimited campaign contributions and buy politicians. What could be fairer than a system like that?
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)I'll have to steal that.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)I don't want anyone calling the cops.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)If he was just an idiot he'd write something that didn't favor the status quo and the 1% every now and then.
johnp3907
(3,730 posts)About a week ago I read a one of his columns where he said he used to smoke pot but stopped because it made him say and do stupid things. Should we assume he's started again?
deafskeptic
(463 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Brooks ain't tokin, probably doing bath salts or something like that.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)I was stupid for a few days afterwards; one of the reasons I quit
deafskeptic
(463 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)except make me feel agitated for a little while
I have fucked up brain chemistry. Stimulants like coke and meth do nothing. I'm sort of thankful for that because I've seen what those drugs can do and have done to friends of mine.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)eom
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)He's a dangerous man.
ck4829
(35,069 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)I tried to read Brooks this morning but was unsuccessful.
Sleep kept distracting me.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)I can't take any credit.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)NYT sinks to another low.
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)First thing I'm going to do is start shouting at my employees... then I'm going to take a cruise to exotic locations, maybe visit Ireland when I'm done. After that, I'm going to go out to the club and... oh wait...
I don't have any employees to shout at.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)If the poor people had 1% interest rate on their credit cards
If the poor people had their companies pick up 100% of their health insurance
If the poor people could deduct all their expenses
If the poor people got 1% bank loans
They would be in pretty good shape and probably not poor any more
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Instead poor people get 29% interest rate on their credit cards
Instead companies pick up 0% of their health insurance by keeping them working below the threshold where they're required to provide health insurance
Instead poor people can't deduct all their expenses, only rich employers get to do that
Instead poor people don't often qualify for bank loans
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Why won't they just take these simple steps?
The lazy freeloaders!!!!!
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)Guillotine.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)El_Johns
(1,805 posts)Just a business move to them.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Followed by a maximum assets law.
A government has every reason to make sure that no individual's wealth becomes great enough to influence the state. It has become a national security problem, and should be addressed that way.
Of course that includes the corporate citizens too, which are even more of a threat.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I applaud idiotic statements like these. Reality is reality, regardless, let them be openly smug and insulting about it.
johnp3907
(3,730 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)File in: Stuff Rich Assholes Say to Protect Their Own Interests
When you are POOR it is the PRIMARY ISSUE. When you cannot feed your family, pay your rent, pay for car repair, save for emergencies, afford health insurance (or use it if you have it), BEING POOR IS THE PRIMARY ISSUE. Not being able to pay your heating bill in a Michigan winter is not a 'statistical byproduct', it is a fucking crisis. Only the privileged can even pretend otherwise.
Propaganda-spewing asshole.
TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)fishwax
(29,149 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)and have failed miserably
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Yes, corporations lowering labor costs to increase executive pay, dividends and stock price have absolutely nothing to do with the incomes of the working class.