The voice of the elite strikes again

Spoken like a true elitist:

Capitalism might be fun to disparage at cocktail parties, in Capitol Hill cloakrooms and in college classrooms, but in hard times most working families can see how crucial it is to have a robust economy producing jobs, mainly from small businesses.

So let me see if I get this straight: Ed Achorn thinks that it is the people who benefit the most from capitalism that hate it and that the people who are hurt the most by it embrace it? Obvisouly, he hasn't spent much time in the break room of a warehouse or the faculty room in a public school. Keep telling youself these myths Eddie, they may helkp you sleep at night.

Working Moms vs. Poor Kids: Cynicism on display

This has to be the most cynical thing I have ever read in the Providence Journal:

Central Falls High School is ground zero in a battle between radical education change focused on the needs of students, and the hard-won labor rights that protect the jobs and working conditions of adults.

See, when they frame the issue as working moms versus poor kids it is the embodiment of what robber baron Jay Gould said:

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Forget doing the hard work of addressing poverty; forget taking on the politically difficult task of dealing with racism and immigration. Why touch those third rails? Let’s just play cynical politics and make the people at the bottom fight each other.