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Warpy

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1. Now that poverty has reached deep into the suburbs
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 04:06 PM
Jan 2012

The Heritage Foundation is making itself look sillier to more and more people, most of whom have experienced a lot of belt tightening if they haven't actually experienced hunger. People who have lost job after job in a bad economy are certainly aware of the possibility of hunger down the road. And they're aware of the shame that goes along with being broke, shame due in a very large part from the efforts of Heritage and other right wing stink tanks to criminalize poverty, even that coming from plain bad luck and/or managerial screwups.

These well funded stink tanks are starting to make themselves irrelevant now that they've achieved a lot of what they set out to do simply because this type of thinking can only be tolerated in a good economy. We can't afford it in a bad one.

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