re: #79 calochortus

Yup, she’s nuts. Hardee’s conflating having a job in fast food, presumably as a teenager, and becoming a senator is just stupid. It makes as much sense as banning marijuana because it is a “gateway drug.”

Reinforcing the Horatio Alger myth is never a good thing. If Horatio Alger started out at the bottom today and worked his ass off the odds are good that he’d still be at the bottom ten years from now - and paying a greater percentage of his income in taxes than do the one percent. One fourth of American males born into the bottom tenth percentile of income remain there for life.