Thinking further about the devastating effects on American moral fiber of a creeping socialist response to economic stimulus, and how important it is to be sure the poor don’t get all uppity and troublesome, I recall that George Grosz had it covered eighty-odd years ago, and Schiller more than two hundred:
…and Wilde, of course: “Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.”
