Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once

The Weekly Standard ^ | The March 27th 2017 Issue

[Mears]

Angus should do stand-up comedy.

His remarks on poverty gave me a very good laugh.

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[Paladin2]

Rural Montanans typically own a shovel...

[RC one]

Princeton should be embarrassed.

[morphing libertarian]

I’ve spent a lot of time in rural WV because I’m from there and go back now and then. People have cable, cell phones trucks and enough money to order pizza and go to Hardees. They don’t starve and many are overweight. So if Inda is better than so be it. Haven’t been there.

[Noumenon]

Got ‘em here in north Idaho, too. Great all-purpose tool, it is.

[Reily]

MIT isn’t embarrassed over Gruber why should Princeton be over this guy?

[Vermont Lt]

In India I like the freedom to just walk into a corner and take a dump.

You don’t have that freedom here in the US.

//sarc off

[JPJones]

“If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I’m not sure who would have the better life.”

Oh yeah when I lived in Milwaukee I felt nothing but pity for those poor lepers and untouchables wandering MLK Dr.

[morphing libertarian]

Used to go to my cousins to sleep over in a coal mining town. Their home was 3 bedrooms and a pay. So no I didn’t go around the corner, i went to the back yard outhouse. : )

[raybbr]

"And, boy! Are my arms tired...."

[Garth Tater]

"If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I'm not sure who would have the better life."

Hey let's not be dissing trailer parks here. They provide some of the finest living conditions found on this planet and at a price the common man can afford to pay. Many, many fond memories of growing up in the land of mobile homes!

Trailer Park Boys - Countdown to Liquor Day

[Tax-chick]

Theodore Dalrymple, among others, has observed that it’s the moral and cultural poverty in Western welfare societies that is the worst.

[ClearCase_guy]

Dalrymple should be required reading for anyone who wants to vocalize an opinion on poverty in the western world.

[2ndDivisionVet]

We live in a brand-new Palm Harbor 3/2 double-wide home in a nice park. It has everything that a stick-built house costing 4X as much has.

[Tax-chick]

In "Life at the Bottom," he talked about visiting doctors from India and the Philippines who couldn't believe that anyone would choose to live as the British welfare class does. "This isn't poverty," he said, "it's squalor," and people who had seen real, starve-to-death poverty agreed.

[Rebelbase]

The “g” in Angus’ name is silent.

[RedWulf]

> In “Life at the Bottom,” he talked about visiting doctors from India and the Philippines who couldn’t believe that anyone would choose to live as the British welfare class does. “This isn’t poverty,” he said, “it’s squalor,” and people who had seen real, starve-to-death poverty agreed.

People at the bottom need to be told and cajoled into living good lives. Giving them freedom and endless cash destroys them.

[Reily]

I agree!

[Tax-chick]

I think giving anyone freedom and endless cash is dangerous to them. Look how so many children of Hollywood and music celebrities turn out.