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February 18, 2010

Is She Kidding Or Not?

Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 18, 2010 10:34 AM

Life is unfair. Progressives hate that some people, by accident of birth, have more wealth and privilege; despite progressives best efforts to impoverish everybody. New Republic writer Rachel Gurstein proposes a suitably radical solution.

How about redistributing babies at birth, a kind of big baby lottery? Since it is a matter of sheer luck whether one is born into a rich family and then, as a birth-right, is entitled to first-class housing, top-flight health insurance, excellent schools, and, if need be, the best attorneys money can buy, or whether one is born into a poor or middle-class family and not be assured of getting any of these amenities, why not give rational order to what has been a wildly haphazard and obviously unjust state of affairs?

One hopes she is being satirical, but it is hard to tell since her plan is no more insane than other progressive ideas, such as forcing banks to give out mortgages to people who can't pay them back, paying schools more if their students fail, destroying western capitalism in service of a climate scam, giving Constitutional Rights to foreign terrorists, or giving Ed Schultz a TV show.