National Review: ... no longer genuinely "poor" people

[also at Lutton Square]

OMG...

they've completely lost it...

Advanced western democracies have delivered the most prosperous societies in human history. There simply are no longer genuinely "poor" people in sufficient numbers. As Miss Shaidle points out, if you're poor today, it's almost always for behavioral reasons - behavior which the state chooses not to discourage but to reward.

In an effort to salvage something from their savaging of the Frost family in Baltimore, we're now told that the poor don't really exist, and if they do, it's their fault and the government enables them.

Wait, we're not back to welfare queens again, are we?

...the idea that 905,000 Torontonians need food aid is innumerate bunk.

So, in the absence of real need, we've persuaded ourselves that we need to create more and more programs for the middle-class and wealthy.

I thought this discussion was about health care in the US, not the hunger in Canada?  But no matter, just make any point to shore up for message, even if it's not germane.

So executive vice-presidents' families are now the new new poor?

Gee, mighty republican of you.  I see you believe everyone is a scion of wealth.

He goes on with the incredible distaste to attack Graeme Frost again

If a political party is desperate enough to send a boy to do a man's job, then the boy is fair game. As it is, the Dems do enough cynical and opportunist hiding behind biography and identity, and it's incredibly tedious. And anytime I send my seven-year-old out to argue policy you're welcome to clobber him, too.

This from the same people who got the vapors and demanded congressional action over an advertisement regarding a soldier!  IOKIYAR

Idiots