David Brooks drives me nuts. He’s a smart white guy who just doesn’t get it, (or maybe he does get it). In his column today, “The Lean Years“, he argues that unemployed and underemployed working-class men need to adjust their expectations and methods to fit their circumstance. He suggests that, like the changing of the seasons, economies go up, and economies go down. What he neglects to mention is that, while regular working slobs tighten their belts and sob over their beer, rich white men drink vintage wine and keep getting richer on the backs their victims.
The economic crisis we are in is not a “natural event”. It is not the changing of the seasons. It is the handiwork of crooks and con-artists. The solution is not to bend with the winds of change, it is to change the winds. Wake up America!
