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November 29, 2004
READING THE TIMES
With his latest column, "Good News About Poverty," David "Bobo" Brooks continues his wayward adventures in idiocy.
Making the case for globalization, he points to the "spectacular decline in poverty in East and South Asia" as evidence that the world's poorer nations are leading a global economic surge. How so? Well, of roughly 472 million people living on less than $1 a day in 1990, about 200 million have graduated to less than extreme poverty (perhaps $2 a day).Accordingly, when life on $3 a day (or, miracle of miracles, $4 a day) becomes a reality for hundreds of millions in the distant future, we can expect a column headlined "Superspectacular News About Poverty."
Meantime, his colleague Nicholas "On-the-One-Hand-on-the-Other-Hand" Kristof offers more of his adventures in equivocation with his latest column, "Saving the Iraqi Children."
And by the way, don't miss Ashcroft's house of cards.
Posted by at November 29, 2004 08:37 AM
