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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 03:30 PM Original message |
Some want the poor to suffer - Neal Rubin, Detroit News columnist |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. we've grown so mean |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. IMO it's becoming a nation of assholes. n/t |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 04:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Sociopaths |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Yep, better word choice! Often I think that's unregulated capitalism at its grandest ... |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 09:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Me too. I don't remember such mean spiritedness toward the poor when I was a kid. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 09:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. i tend to believe |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 09:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Or maybe it depends on what side of the poverty line you are on? |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Exactly... |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. There are widely differing definitions of poor |
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MinM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-08-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Detroit News is the conservative paper. |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. And yet the guy with more mansions than children has it so hard according to the right wing |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
11. They hate Americans, and want you too hate the poor too |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. Excellent article! Thanks for sharing this! |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. America has always been a Social Darwinist country. |
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