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Current Events » in reply to Joel Kotkin

"The “clerisy” class — an amalgam of academics, media and government employees..."

Everybody blames the intellectuals, I guess the pen is mightier than the sword, although it hasn't got a chance against a well-lined purse, especially one wielded by a Libertarian philanthropist.

It's not the "clerisy's" fault the country is going down the toilet. In fact, they're the only ones trying to warn us. The academics, the media and government employees don't hire or fire people in the middle and working classes. They don't hire and fire anyone at all. They have absolutely no economic power because they don't own anything and they don't control the means of production. They all work for a paycheck, just like the rest of us. And they are losing their jobs, too.

Businesses owners and corporation executives hire and fire people. And the last time I heard, they were doing just fine, firing people here and hiring them overseas. Or bringing them from overseas as illegals so they can hire them dirt-cheap here.

As for the Institute for Justice, read all about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Justice

"William H. "Chip" Mellor and Clint Bolick co-founded the organization in 1991 with seed money from libertarian philanthropist Charles Koch."


Wikipedia also included this message on that page.

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