Millionaire NYT Columnist David Brooks: Poor PeopleWon’t Be Poor If They Just Act Like Rich People

[geardaddy]

From Wonkette

http://wonkette.com/539561

Good news, Poors! David Brooks has decided to take on the topic of income inequality, and has concluded that 1) income inequality is not actually a problem, and 2) if it were, we shouldn’t solve it by giving poor people more money, and also 3) the growing income of the 1% has nothing to do with the shrinking incomes of the rest of us. Hear that? NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

Here, let the man with the 4 million dollar home explain to us why giving money to poor people will be of absolutely no help to them.

more at link.

They're not even trying to hide their idiocy any more.

[bigdarryl]

1. Theses people are nuts

[jsr]

2. Poor people really need to hire themselves some decent K Street lobbyists.

[geardaddy]

3. Bingo!

[Jackpine Radical]

4. The law permits the poor, as well as the rich,

to make unlimited campaign contributions and buy politicians. What could be fairer than a system like that?

[geardaddy]

5. Yep, it's fair!

[Wilms]

6. .

[geardaddy]

8. Oooh, that's good.

I'll have to steal that.

[Wilms]

11. Just take it.

I don't want anyone calling the cops.

[geardaddy]

13. Ha!

[B2G]

7. He's an idiot. nt

[Fumesucker]

12. No, Brooks is a propagandist

If he was just an idiot he'd write something that didn't favor the status quo and the 1% every now and then.

[johnp3907]

9. Gee, that's funny.

About a week ago I read a one of his columns where he said he used to smoke pot but stopped because it made him say and do stupid things. Should we assume he's started again?

[geardaddy]

10. ...

[deafskeptic]

19. I think he's still smoking pot and lyin' about it if this "pearl of wisdom" is any example. n/t

[Fumesucker]

24. Pot generally tends to mellow people out and make them nicer

Brooks ain't tokin, probably doing bath salts or something like that.

[dlwickham]

27. when I smoked on a regular basis

I was stupid for a few days afterwards; one of the reasons I quit

[deafskeptic]

38. I think I should have said smoked crack instead of pot. my bad :P n/t

[dlwickham]

39. I've done that once and it did nothing for me

except make me feel agitated for a little while

I have fucked up brain chemistry. Stimulants like coke and meth do nothing. I'm sort of thankful for that because I've seen what those drugs can do and have done to friends of mine.

[Vinnie From Indy]

14. Brooks's nonsense actually kills people.

eom

[geardaddy]

16. Agreed.

He's a dangerous man.

[ck4829]

15. Use your imagination to be rich and then you are! Wow.

[Smarmie Doofus]

17. K and R For Your Great Header

I tried to read Brooks this morning but was unsuccessful.

Sleep kept distracting me.

[geardaddy]

18. Thanks, but that's the Headling from Wonkette

I can't take any credit.

[Kurovski]

20. Well sure, everyone knows that!

[avaistheone1]

21. More embarrassment for the New York Times!

NYT sinks to another low.

[davidthegnome]

22. Okay...

First thing I'm going to do is start shouting at my employees... then I'm going to take a cruise to exotic locations, maybe visit Ireland when I'm done. After that, I'm going to go out to the club and... oh wait...

I don't have any employees to shout at.

[LiberalArkie]

23. He is probably correct

If the poor people had 1% interest rate on their credit cards
If the poor people had their companies pick up 100% of their health insurance
If the poor people could deduct all their expenses
If the poor people got 1% bank loans






They would be in pretty good shape and probably not poor any more

[Ed Suspicious]

25. I think you're on to something, but...

Instead poor people get 29% interest rate on their credit cards
Instead companies pick up 0% of their health insurance by keeping them working below the threshold where they're required to provide health insurance
Instead poor people can't deduct all their expenses, only rich employers get to do that
Instead poor people don't often qualify for bank loans

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. That's right! If they would just act like it!!

Why won't they just take these simple steps?

The lazy freeloaders!!!!!

[sulphurdunn]

28. I have just one word for David Brooks:

Guillotine.

[Glassunion]

29. Poor People Won’t Be Poor If Rich People Stopped Being Such Disconnected Assholes.

[freshwest]

30. He's right! We can all do it on credit and file for bankruptcy like Donald Trump! It's easy!

Now that's thinking like a 1%er!!!

[El_Johns]

37. The rich find nothing shameful in declaring bankruptcy. Unlike a lot of the rest of us.

Just a business move to them.

[Scuba]

31. Why would anyone give this idiot airtime or ink?

[Waiting For Everyman]

32. He's a great argument for a maximum income law.

Followed by a maximum assets law.

A government has every reason to make sure that no individual's wealth becomes great enough to influence the state. It has become a national security problem, and should be addressed that way.

Of course that includes the corporate citizens too, which are even more of a threat.

[Barack_America]

33. Shall we eat cake, David?

I applaud idiotic statements like these. Reality is reality, regardless, let them be openly smug and insulting about it.

[johnp3907]

34. Tom Tomorrow's got this one.

http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Tom%20Tomorrow/

[Cal Carpenter]

35. "...a secondary issue and a statistical byproduct..."

File in: Stuff Rich Assholes Say to Protect Their Own Interests

When you are POOR it is the PRIMARY ISSUE. When you cannot feed your family, pay your rent, pay for car repair, save for emergencies, afford health insurance (or use it if you have it), BEING POOR IS THE PRIMARY ISSUE. Not being able to pay your heating bill in a Michigan winter is not a 'statistical byproduct', it is a fucking crisis. Only the privileged can even pretend otherwise.

Propaganda-spewing asshole.

[TheKentuckian]

41. PREACH!

[fishwax]

36. Brooks hasn't tried to hide his idiocy for a long time. He wasn't any good at it to begin with

[SoCalDem]

40. What a doofus.. Too many have been TRYING that (with plastic)

and have failed miserably

[Incitatus]

42. "the growing income of the 1% has nothing to do with the shrinking incomes"

Yes, corporations lowering labor costs to increase executive pay, dividends and stock price have absolutely nothing to do with the incomes of the working class.