Turning a Blind Eye to Nation's Poor

Bob Herbert, New York Times
Consider the extremes. President Obama is redesigning his administration to make it even friendlier toward big business and the megabanks, which is to say the rich, who flourish no matter what is going on with the economy in this country. (They flourish even when they’re hard at work destroying the economy.) Meanwhile, we hear not a word — not so much as a peep — about the poor, whose ranks are spreading like a wildfire in a drought. Bob Herbert The politicians and the media behave as if the poor don’t exist. But...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/08/turning_a_blind_eye_to_nation039s_poor_248462.html

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