Re: [OM] Economics

[Chuck Norcutt]

I think it is a gross generalization but not without at least a slim 
thread of truth running through it.

Chuck Norcutt
(an actual Puritan descendant... but that was a very long time ago)

On 12/21/2010 6:02 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Ah but do the poor and underemployed actually vote? It has often
> struck me that Americans can be astonishingly philanthropic and yet
> are often viciously unsympathetic to the unfortunate. A gross
> generalisation, I know and based on anecdotal evidence in the main so
> don't beat me up. But I did hear one interesting thesis that it is
> part of the historic culture. The Puritans believed that God would
> make the righteous prosper. Therefore the poor and indigent must be
> evil. And that this is a deep prejudice that is at the unthinking
> core of the problem. Interesting logic Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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