Like Paul Krugman, I think poverty is bad. And also presumably like Paul Krugman, I think you should read his op-ed on the subject today. Then I think you should compare it to Bill Kristol's witless, ahistorical muddle about how Republicans are like Rudyard Kipling and have the seriousness which only comes from being a ruling power, or something. The difference in intellectual quality, to say nothing of empirical grounding, between the two columns is startling.
