What a great idea! Chris Hayes' 'Easy' Solution To Poverty: Give People Money! Chris Hayes is what passes at MSNBC for a progressive intellectual. Which makes his simple-minded and manifestly mistaken proposal that much more maddening. Making a peek-a-boo video-clip appearance on today's Melissa Harris-Perry's show, which focused on finding solutions to poverty in America, Hayes was seen holding up a hand-written sign with his solution, reading "Giving people money: It's actually that easy." View the video after the jump. <iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="640" height="360" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/121205" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Perhaps Hayes hadn't tuned in to hear Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute make the point that the U.S. already has 126 federal anti-poverty programs that spend $688 billion every year, with state and local programs spending another $280 billion. Almost a trillion given to poor people each year--with no significant impact on reducing poverty! Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-f...ution-poverty-give-people-money#ixzz2T6sbvPmh
It's obviously not enough. Maybe liberals would like to bump that up to $5 trillion a year or maybe $10. Surely there is some point that everyone will be equal. Right? (Idiots!)