The Politics Of Suicide

Here is a report that describes (among other things) the declining wages of lower-skilled males.  It should haunt you for a little while.  Here is the Wall Street Journal praising hero-of-the-moment Rand Paul’s proposal for an expanded guest worker program.   Paul is also in favor of a tax proposal that seems to combine sharp tax cuts on high earners with tax increases on parts of the middle-class.   At least he is consistent.

It is like some Republicans looked at the most hyperbolic, slanderous accusations against the GOP as the party of the rich, and said to themselves “Yeah!  Let’s do that !”