Reply #8: it's a fiction....check out michael lind's

[pretzel4gore]

'up from conservativism'
there are 3 rightwing hoaxes that have been foisted upon the public: all three have been proven wrong repeatedly by numerous studies, but the gopigs still conveniently use them. they are
1) taxes are too high
b) public schools/education is a failure
3)poor girls have higher rates of illegitimacy then middle class or wealthy women.
i could post the refutations of these hoaxes using lind's data, but it seems i've done that at least 3 times since finding DU 4 years ago. simply put, taxes in the usa are consistent with every other western industrial country, indeed they are actually lower for upper income brackets. but tell this to freepers. they insist that the rich pay high taxes and thus deserve breaks etc. USA public schooling, at least until about 20 years ago, actually outperformed schools in many other western countries: since reagan, obviously, SOME public schools do worse, as they have been underfunded. And finally, statistics prove that poor women are no more prone to have kids out of wedlock then any other class of women, which is amazing when the levels of demoralization experienced by poor women are factored in.
people like bennett are not only crude ignoranmusus but they base their facts upon georgebushit...