He just wrote an article saying that it's OK that all those people died in Bangladesh, it's a choice made by "rational actors" to trade safety for jobs:
I think that’s wrong. Bangladesh may or may not need tougher workplace safety rules, but it’s entirely appropriate for Bangladesh to have different—and, indeed, lower—workplace safety standards than the United States.Shades of Larry Summers suggesting that we ship toxic waste to Africa because they need the money.
The reason is that while having a safe job is good, money is also good.
The workers did not have a choice about safety. They knew that they, and their families, would face starvation if they got fired for not going into an unsafe building. The choice was made by their evil bosses.
This is a constant theme of his writing, and I am no interested in his faux liberal bullsh%$.
While there are people on my blogroll with who I profoundly disagree with because they provide insight into foreign view points.
Retired Maryland Republican hatchet man Joe Steffen, and Russian/Orthodox Christian Nationalist Stanislav Mishin are two such examples on my blogroll.
His view, which can best be described by the phrase, "Even the liberal The New Republic."
It's all about self-entitled white guys who never have to wonder about where their next meal is coming from play the Michael Kinsley counter-intuitive idiocy game in an attempt to prove how smart they are.
It's dull, it's predictable, it's bereft of any real insight, and it's off my regular reading list.
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