The most amazing thing I've read recently was Tuesday's guest column by Jay Ambrose, "Paul Ryan got it right," which puts everything Orwellian to shame.
Apparently poverty is the fault of those crazy, mixed-up lefties. How dare they try to feed the hungry and house the homeless. They should be concentrating on the “invisible-hand beneficence of free markets." Just let the rich be rich and shut up about it, maybe we’ll cut you a brick.
It’s the same argument we've had for centuries: Render unto Caesar, let them eat cake, and “Help the poor escape entitlement.” Escape to where, and how? I could almost believe this “tough love” baloney, if not for the other side of it: corporate welfare “voucher” schools.
Taking away any safety nets because some feel emasculated by the thought of someone getting a free lunch is so sinister only a hard-core righty could pass it off as “common sense.”
Have these people learned nothing from history? When done teaching the poor how poor they really are, then what? I know -- we can teach them good work ethics by building a pyramid or two. Worked for the Egyptians.
-- Dale Glaudell, Baraboo
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