Daniel Greenfield writes The Poverty of Inequality in Sultan Knish.

Excerpts:

The left does hate people who work for a living. The poster child for its childish screeds is Elizabeth Warren, a populist voice of the people who spent three-quarters of a million on a condo as soon as she got to Washington D.C. and once scored $90,000 from the government for serving as an expert witness.

Elizabeth Warren was right and wrong when she said that no one gets rich on their own. There are people who do get rich on their own. And there are people like her who get rich through their political connections. The left hates people who work for their money and get rich on their own. It loves “public servants” like her who get rich off their “community” political connections.

The left’s hypocrisy on income inequality is so obscenely ridiculous that it surpasses satire. Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in America, made billions from a bailout that he helped shape, and then campaigned with Obama against income inequality complaining that the rich were not paying enough taxes.

America doesn’t have an income inequality problem. It has a government problem. The growth of government has lowered the standard of living. The standard of living peaked before Obama took office and then fell in the sharpest such drop in recorded American history.

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