Monday, January 13, 2014

You'll have to imagine my response. I deleted it.


Mark J. Perry, the inimitably bad thinker, shows a graph of population by income group. The graph shows that the percentage of poor people is increasing, and the percentage of rich people is increasing.

Don Boudreaux links to that graph in the same post where he says "income inequality is neither as great nor as insurmountable and stifling as 'Progressives' would have us think." I guess he can't quite force out the phrase "inequality is not increasing".

In the same post, he says the new rich "work hard and are responsible; therefore, they enjoy larger monetary rewards than they’d get were they less hard-working and less responsible." Sounds like he knows them all personally.

Mr. James Lott in the photo – one of the “new rich.” He’s the son of Nigerian immigrants. He obviously works hard and acts responsibly. He doesn’t moan about what he doesn’t have, and he didn’t sit around envying other people and hoping and waiting for the government to give him someone else’s money in order to make his income more on par with that of “the rich.”

So, Don, are you saying that I don't work hard? That I don't act responsibly? That I moan about what I don't have, and that I sit around envying other people and hoping and waiting for the government to give me someone else's money?

1 comment:

Jazzbumpa said...

I'm not too good at imagining your response.

I can only imagine my response.

But the nonsense spouter always has a practical advantage. They can just make shit up, while to refute it, you have to do real work.

Then they just spout another lie.

It never ends.

JzB