The Poverty Pimp's Poem

The Poverty Pimp's Poem by Thomas Sowell -- Capitalism Magazine:
"MY FELLOW-ECONOMIST WALTER WILLIAMS has for years kept track of how much money it would take to lift every American man, woman and child in poverty above the official poverty level. That sum has consistently been some fraction of the money actually spent in 'anti-poverty' programs. In other words, if you gave every poor person enough money to stop being poor, that would cost a fraction of what our welfare state programs and bureaucracies cost."

I first heard the term Inner City Poverty Pimp just a few weeks ago and thought it was very apropos of today's race hustlers. My delight at discovering such a new and refreshing phrase was short lived when I came across this article by Thomas Sowell describing the ICPP phenomena. That piece was published in 2001 from an original 1998 work. No matter, it's a great observation on America's Race Hustlers who seem to own Federal, State, and Local officials. Own may be a poor choice of words, petrify and extort are more fitting.