Denying Poverty Amid a ‘Looming Economic Crisis’ – Left Margin

That means more money, more soldiers and more ground forces — he suggests an increase of around 100,000 men and women. “A strong military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace,” he writes.” But Foreign Affairs is hardly daily reading in America’s poorest neighborhoods. The lack of education bemoaned by Obama, the social policy specialist, renders valuable services to Obama, the foreign policy expert.” (Here Steingart has a point. Shades of President Johnson’s “guns and butter;” some of Obama’s foreign policy views are indeed out of sync with our domestic needs).

Steingart, who has described low-income German workers as “white trash” believes “the main thing that sets the modern poor apart from the industrial age pauper is a sheer lack of interest in education.” He is partial to German Chancellor Andrea Merkel who he says has “taken the country back to where it belongs — at America’s side” and who he sees as closer politically to Senator Hilary Clinton than to the Republicans. He says that Merkel hasn’t met with Clinton because she avoids interfering in U.S. international politics – something about which he clearly has no qualms.