John Edwards - "Man of the Poor"

He’s Back! John Edwards – Man of the Poor- or so the multi-millionaire trail lawyer calls himself. As the latest preening peacock to wade into the Democrat presidential birdbath (getting a little crowded in there Hillary?), John Edwards has staked out the ‘poor’ as his turf. His vaporous plan to end poverty is to “grow the middle class”. However, he does not realize that you cannot grow the middle class without growing middle class values. Values such as growing up, getting a job, getting married to someone of the opposite sex, settling down and then having kids when you are emotionally and financially ready. His cure for the epidemic rise in out of wedlock births is admonishing young women “to not have kids until they’re ready”. Since the Liberal Democrat party is loath to speak the M-Word (marriage) without the prefix of “gay” attached, their definition of “ready” is fatally flawed.

Absent the “values” component in ‘growing the middle class’, the fall back is the tried and true and failed policy of buying the poor into the middle class. If this would work, the $585 billion (big money even to congress-critters) of your money that the Federal and state governments spend per year on the “poor” would have done it by now!

Folks, the only way to go from “poor” to “middle class” and on to “evil rich” is to work hard, take responsibility and do it yourself.