Barbara Ehrenreich: How I Discovered the Truth About Poverty Prevailing attitudes towards poverty blame the victim. Here’s why that’s so wrong. March 15, 2012 The capitalist system lives and feeds on lies in order to convince people how it and the allied sham democratic system it associates with are good for them. Myth after myth [...]
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Blaming the Poor Yes, It’s Charles Murray, Singing for his Supper By Carl Ginsburg There are many weapons in the public relations arsenal of the 1 per cent. An old stand-by in that stockpile is to fault “the family,” a predictable verbal assault invoked to shift the debate away from the gross [...]
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