Other federal budget lines that don't address character
Reading David Brooks sometimes makes me want to tear my newspaper to shreds, throw the shreds in the fireplace, and douse them in something that burns even faster. Of course, my fireplace is decorative and my newspaper’s actually a laptop, so I control myself.
Brooks would approve. He likes self-control. For poor people especially, but presumably for the rest of us as well.
Like a lot of Brooks’s more frustrating columns, yesterday’s isn’t all bad. He implies support for policies creating quality preschools and affordable higher ed. That’s great! Such policies have demonstrated success in helping people get out of poverty.
