In case you missed it, Ben Stein explains why he hates the liberals. Below are a few highlights; make sure you read the whole story, though. Funny thing, he wrote this back in 1976… you’d almost think he wrote it yesterday. You wouldn’t really be able to tell a difference if he had.
I especially resent the claims of white liberals that they
know best about how to solve the problems of the poor and the
black. There is hardly any evidence that liberal programs to help
the poor and the black have done much good. The ordinary
operations of the capitalist system, however, have made enormous
gains economically for the poor and the black.…
I don’t like it particularly when liberals say that more
money for this or that project can come out of profits. Most
people don’t realize that profits are small parts of total
earnings for most companies and that without the profits, people,
even liberals, wouldn’t invest their money. And there is nothing
wrong with big profits. It’s a sign of good management and
creativity, which are rewarded in the artistic sphere as they
should be in the management area. And the stockholders who get
the dividends for those profits are often widows and orphans and
most often of all, pension funds.…
Similarly, I get mad especially about the minimum wage. The
minimum wage is just a device guaranteeing that those people
whose labor is not worth the minimum wage will remain unemployed.
It does not raise any one’s real wage because if an employee were
worth the minimum wage, he would have been paid it already. For
example, every time the minimum wage is raised or its coverage
broadened, the number of unemployed black teenagers rises
dramatically. They are people who are largely unskilled and if
they are to be hired at all it will have to be at low wages. But
the minimum wage law does not allow employers to hire them at the
wage they’re worth, so they are not hired at all.