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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/36702-david-brooks-discovers-income-inequalityFrom Brooks latest column:
It's about time, David.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Last edited Fri May 6, 2016, 06:42 AM - Edit history (1)
the road. "Income inequality" is code for: "increase the minimum wage some," and/or "guaranty some subsistence level income," which is basically a welfare program. Those things, while important, are about all government can do about income inequality. The rubber hits the road at WEALTH INEQUALITY. As far as I know, Bernie is the only candidate for the Presidential nom who talks wealth inequality.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)jesus christ, what an asshole.
merrily
(45,251 posts)That means first its necessary to go out into the pain. I was surprised by Trumps success because Ive slipped into a bad pattern, spending large chunks of my life in the bourgeois strata in professional circles with people with similar status and demographics to my own. It takes an act of will to rip yourself out of that and go where you feel least comfortable.
He's a fscking political pundit by trade, ffs. What the hell does he do to prepare to write a political column? What the eff did he think Occupy Wall Street was about? Which books and magazine articles does he read? To which news stories does he pay attention? Which documentaries does he watch? Has he ever heard of FrontLine? Did he sleep through the "pain" of 2008-10? If the NYT had a shred of integrity, it would fire him for saying he is surprised.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)in front of the office buildings where the Wall Streeters spend long days figuring out more ways to screw the average American.
merrily
(45,251 posts)He has just proven himself unqualified for his job, even as a competent conservative commentator. We have to figure out a realistic way to pressure the NYT --and PBS, btw--to throw him out as utterly unqualified to pontificate about politics to anyone ever.
hatrack
(59,606 posts)I just love it when Brooksie mingles with us proles!