Tuesday, December 15, 2009

NOT "WATCHING OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY"

Despite the recent fraud perpetrated by the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street, conservative thinking still seems to concentrate on the shortcomings of the lower classes. Consider this article, approved by Andrew Sullivan, from what appears to be a neo-con magazine devoted to social issues:
Keeping America's Edge

JIM MANZI
FROM ISSUE NUMBER 2 ~ WINTER 2010
NATIONAL AFFAIRS

And third is the growing disparity in behavioral norms and social conditions between the upper and lower income strata of American society.

Increasingly, our country is segregated into high-income groups with a tendency to bourgeois norms, and low-income groups experiencing profound social breakdown.

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