[2ndDivisionVet]

The comments pound on him!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fifty years of the Great Society assures us that Liberals can’t fix poverty, either.

[Lazlo in PA]

James Thindwa is a Communist.

The latest episode of PBS' Bill Moyers Journal includes a 25-minute profile of Chicago community organizer James Thindwa, who works with the group Jobs with Justice. The report traverses many of the great organizing efforts that we've covered here at Progress Illinois over the past year: from the Republic Windows sit-in to the fight with Wal-Mart for a living wage to the mobilization behind the Employee Free Choice Act. Moyers' synopsis of the 2006 big box fight is particularly useful.

Something tells me he might be an Obummer sycophant.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Why do liberals always seem to have the best pot?

[truthkeeper]

Be prepared to hear this day in and day out from the media.

[Leep]

The only thing that fixes poverty is a job and a half a effort to get one and then to keep it.

Rant follows:
The main problem is g’mint has created, as usual, a bigger mess than if they would have not embraced and supported the unmotivated via OPM in the first place.
Somehow, it has almost become illmoral to “force” people to work for their keep...?
Until and unless we are ready to get real firm..not allow people to collect a check for doing nothing...then we are doomed.
I don’t care if someone is in a wheel chair they can be greeters or hand out flyers.
It seems to me most people would WANT to do SOMETHING???

[EBH]

And the liberals have done such a great job at it?

[Tublecane]

” a mean-spiritedness that, unfortunately, largely eludes public scrutiny”

Yeah, no one has ever tried to publicly link Republicanism with meanness. That’s not a cliche or anything. When will the silence end?

[Tublecane]

“For decades, urban communities have endured massive job flight”

Could that have something to do with “urban communities” electing Democrats?

[Tublecane]

“Occupy Wall Street has deservedly been credited with sparking a debate about rising inequality”

Lord, if only inequality were rising. That’d mean we’re coming out of dark times. Nothing promotes equality like a depression.

[Minn]

And Fessler noted that in public housing, “about half of non-elderly, non-disabled households get most of their income from wages.”

Wow. That's really impressive about half get about half their income from work. Where does the rest come from?

[Safetgiver]

Conservatives enjoy being told that poverty is caused by the bad behavior of its victims, a belief famously reaffirmed by Herman Cain (“If you’re poor, blame yourself!”). It is always easier to blame victims than to contemplate real solutions. ‘’’And that solution is?...to stop work, create more government and destroy families.