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Impacting Poverty

PrinceofPeeps Wrote: Jun 18, 2012 3:55 PM
They're not stupid. The whole point of liberal policy is government dependency, not individual independence. They SAY what people want to hear, appearing to have good intentions, but DO something designed to create an entirely different outcome. They know EXACTLY what they are doing.
The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously observed that “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

It’s an admonition not taken particularly seriously by today’s political left. They embrace, extol, advocate ideas and policies based on what they wish were true, regardless of how often and consistently their ideas have been proven wrong.

Take, for instance, the minimum wage.

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill) wants to again raise the minimum wage – from $7.25 to $10.00 - despite an abundance of experience that doing so accomplishes exactly the opposite of...
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