Players and critics often respond simply: If you're so poor, how come you're so rich?

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Mr. COYNE: (Laughs) (Singing) If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich, would you do it?

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Because our patients are not able to evaluate the quality of their care and external quality metrics are so poor, I wonder if the time might be right to introduce real supervision into medical practice.

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If goods are so expensive, how do the poor manage?

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People can, of course, hire their own lawyers and bring private prosecutions if they so choose, but most victims in riots are poor and illiterate and cannot afford the legal fees over years and years.

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Yet if the Roosevelts favored the middle class and the poor, they often did so at the expense of being labeled class traitors by their peers.

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So, in other words, if we judge society by how well it serves the poor, then free enterprise is far and away the greatest anti-poverty program known to man.

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Firms hold off raises when the economy is bad, so if the anti-immigration argument was true we would expect to see more green card applications during poor economic times.

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