The Weekly Spam Review - Our Idol: Plaut

The Weekly Spam Review

Our dearest Prof. Steven Plaut sent a document to the CEU Weekly, which is a response to Occupy Wall Street movement; as he calls “An Economic Primer for the Occupiers.” I could not find a way to summarize Professor’s invaluable right-wing and free market fetishist arguments. Yet, I’d like to congratulate him on this one. According to Plaut:

“Americans who live below the poverty line live in larger homes, are more likely to own their home, are more likely to own cars and durable goods, and eat more protein than do Europeans and Japanese who are NOT below their own poverty lines. Many low-income Americans have Big Screen TV’s, DVD’s and even Jacuzzis.”

What a fascinating and humanistic argument! Homeless people, who are clearly below the poverty line, have the whole damn world as their home! Nothing is larger than the parks or yards. Also, homeless people have the greatest shopping cards with so many durable goods. Isn’t it cool, huh? Lastly, streets are full of insects containing the precious protein we need. Considering the diets of Europeans, by eating insects one would definitely get more protein than Europeans. However, homeless people do not have Big Screen TV’s! Yet they do not live below the poverty line because of the capitalism for Plaut. For him:

“The ‘homeless’ are by and large people with psychiatric problems and/or substance abuse problems and/or teenage runaways, and so American ‘homelessness’ has little to do with income distribution.  Even if income distribution were perfectly equitable, the homelessness rate would not change much, unless laws were changed making their institutionalization easier.”

So my exemplification of homeless people is not a good way to defend his argumentation after all, yet this even shows how his arguments are really strong, sound and compelling! The CEU Weekly published his arguments in this issue; so please see how great they are.

Lastly, I’d like to warn you about homeless people in Budapest. Do not go near to them! They are people with psychiatric problems or substance abuse problems!