Kevin Gowen wrote:

> http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20030618.shtml

I read it. So what? So most American poor today live better than
people in developing nations or people in 1960.

I could have told you that. When I was a child, "poor" people lived
better than I did in an upper middle class family, because they
actually spent some of their money on nice clothes and cars instead
of saving it in the bank or investing it and shopping for clothes at
Woolworth's and Sears, or paying off a mortgage on a house.

It doesn't make it more acceptable to allow people to be poor then
or now, nor is it as simple as blaming people for being poor,
particularly when as the man notes, bad parenting may be
responsible.

Funny the man didn't mention lack of health care or insurance. Or
crime. Or the fact that in the nation with just him and Bill Gates,
he may become a millionaire, but he would still be doing ALL Bill
Gates' manual labor, not be a reporter living comfortably. (Why
would Bill Gates pay him millions anyway, when he could hire cheap
foreign servants for a few bucks a day who wouldn't be expecting
millions to do housekeeping?)