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Originally Posted by Botnst
The gentleman has apparently never heard of 4/5ths of the planet's population nor of history. Most of the population is born into poverty as were their ancestors. We few, we happy few are allotted greater economic freedom, political liberty, health, and general welfare than has ever been present in human history. To suppose that health and general welfare are a result of state action is a cataclysmically thick-headed denial of history.
Our current estate is a direct result of increasing economic freedom, not the reverse. Is it unequal? You betcha it is.
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He said 'extent' of inherited poverty. Not that America was the only place it happens. He did not say that anything was a result of state action.
If his statement about the extent of inherited poverty is accurate, it would seem that we are in fact not the beneficiaries of the greatest economic freedom, etc..
He did describe the theory of Reagan policy. And it turned out not to be a great engine of upward mobility.