March 03, 2010 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. 03/02/10 - A Kansas Reader Explains Why An Immigration Moratorium Is Urgently Needed A Former Forbes Reporter Calls Paul Craig Roberts’ Anti-Republican Column “Ugly”—And Wrong
From:
James Samuelson (e-mail
him)
Re: Paul Craig Roberts’ Column:
Wall Street Oligarchs Eyeing Social Security What an unfortunate, undergraduate
polemic by Roberts who could not be bothered to support
his ugly, bromidic assertion that
“Republicans have
extraordinary animosity toward the poor.” Rather, studies have shown that
Republicans give more to charity—volunteering and
donated blood included—than Democrats who think buying
Peruvian sweaters at art fairs constitutes God’s work. Also, Democrats, not Republicans, are
the biggest beneficiaries of
Wall Street's largesse.
President
Obama’s record $745 million campaign haul could
not have been achieved without the help of Wall Street’s
$89 million contribution, also a record. The President’s
But none of those above inconvenient
facts matters to Roberts who lazily substitutes innuendo
for insight by scrawling clunky clichés, such as
“Wall Street fleeces,” “henchman,” “Wall
Street gangsters” and, oh that foxy phrase,
“special
interests.”
Samuelson teaches high
school English. Previously, he was a Bear Stearns equity
analyst and a Forbes reporter. |
