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The Stupidly Obvious Phrase of the Day
John ScalziThe Poor Suffer the Most Used, for example, in this news header today in a story about food shortages: As a brutal convergence of events hits an unprepared global market, and grain prices go sky high, the worlds poor suffer most.  Really? The poor suffering the most? Its hard to imagine. Because, you know, usually when theres a major global crisis of any sort, its the poor sitting there on the sidelines, going whew, dodged that bullet. How strange that the people the least economically, socially and educationally able to deal with wrenching change should suffer the most. How odd that the rich should so often be able to shield themselves from the ravages of events. Its almost as if they have some advantage over poor people, although off the top of my head what it might be escapes me.Which is not to say that the rich always get off scot free: who among us can forget The Great Davos Lobster Bisque Inconvenience of 04, in which the victims, none with a net worth of less than $15 million, suffered a small amount of gastric distress due to too much heavy cream in the soup? . . . A tip for news writers: itll be news when the poor dont suffer the most. As the mysterious Billionaires Virus decimates Aspen, the worlds stinkin rich suffer the most. Thats a news head worth writing. Posted by: Mike 2008-04-28 |
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