Saturday, July 27, 2013

Know Your Class Enemy 2/6

The fourth-richest man in America, Charles Koch, has now amassed a personal fortune of about $34 billion, recently declared "We want to do a better job of raising up the disadvantaged and the poorest in this country." What Koch  proposes to "help" poor people is eliminating "the minimum wage." because it "reduces the mobility of labor. where they could "start a business ... drive a taxicab ... become a hairdresser" and no doubt be on their way to become a billionaires like him and his brother.

Andrew Kessler is a former hedge-fund manager “explains” that  homeless problem stems from "all this volunteering and charitable giving" by do-gooders. Homeless folks ought to be working, he lectured, but they're not, "because someone is feeding, clothing and, in effect, bathing them."  And where "Where does money come from ... to help the unfortunate?" he asks. It comes from "someone (who) worked productively and created wealth",  the ones who produce "good old-fashioned economic growth." -  like himself - which naturally entitles him to the freehand outs from the State in the form of more tax-breaks.

Taken from Common Dreams website


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