Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yahoobb218120102020.bbtec.NET!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Private for Eric - income inequality Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:57:30 +0900 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3EF07DDA.75F74E63@yahoo.co.jp> References: Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp NNTP-Posting-Host: yahoobb218120102020.bbtec.net (218.120.102.20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055947885 23101983 218.120.102.20 (16 [138107]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:1210 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?)