Disconnected

David K. Shipler, in an op-ed for The New York Times titled “Total Poverty Awareness," loses his concentration and misses connecting the dots he is so concerned with connecting.  Shipler mentions the failure of the 40 year “War on Poverty.” He drives this point home with this statement.

"Government is especially bad at connecting the dots."

A tacit admission that the government’s involvement in this issue, is, a failure.

After Shipler turns the corner on the above statement he utters this.

"We need a sweeping national program to create what could be called gateways."

So, Shipler admits that the government can’t connect the dots, but in the next breath calls for more government to connect the dots.  Disconnected.

Posted by on 02/21 at 07:27 AM

  1. Y’see, all the other Plans before this one have failed, but this Plan is special: it’s *his*. “Oh, yeah, things don’t work so well, but that just proves we need a new plan. *My* plan.”

    It’s perpetual motion packaged in human form.

    Posted by John Lopez  on  02/21  at  03:40 PM

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