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**Franchise** · 08-10-2009, 03:08 AM

Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?

By BARBARA EHRENREICH Does the reporter think this is a two year phenomenon that goes against logic because of the recession? Sounds like she's been living in isolation, read a report, a drew simple conclusions.

I think that hostility toward the poor was even more intense during the boom 1990s, more "in defiance of all reason and compassion." There seemed to be a prevailing attitude that there was no excuse for anyone to be poor. After all, we wiped out the deficit, and were making long-term plans on what to do with future surpluses.

08-10-2009, 03:08 AM	#2
Franchise Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 445 Senior Member	Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? By BARBARA EHRENREICH Does the reporter think this is a two year phenomenon that goes against logic because of the recession? Sounds like she's been living in isolation, read a report, a drew simple conclusions. I think that hostility toward the poor was even more intense during the boom 1990s, more "in defiance of all reason and compassion." There seemed to be a prevailing attitude that there was no excuse for anyone to be poor. After all, we wiped out the deficit, and were making long-term plans on what to do with future surpluses.
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