Originally Posted by Force-of-the-Truth";p=&quot

First, this is the only statistic that matters: It is more important to make the poor richer than to narrow the gap between the rich and poor. To take any other attitude is simply to be envious. With various ups and downs, poverty is actually less common now than it was in 1981 (when Reagan took office), the beginning of the supposedly unfair era of economic neoliberalism.
As for Webb's little "manifesto" there, it seems that Webb, who writes (books of sadistic and pedophilic pornography (see this thread), can't keep his mind off deviance even when writing about economics:

Those are unusual choices of words, but not too surprising if you look at his other writings. Also note his xenophobia. Apparently some workers are more equal than others. When Democrats start turning on immigrants with false economic theories that appeal to the basest "territorial" instincts in human nature, they become every bit as statist as neoconservative Republicans. Don't get me wrong- I despise George Allen as well. Allen is a party line, big government, war-mongering authoritarian who opposes gun rights- abhorrent to what I support. However, as an anti-immigrant socialist of the worst possible character, Jim Webb, as hard as it is to believe, is even worse.