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politicalprof<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If there\u2019s one media meme that needs to die amidst the Libyan revolution, it\u2019s \u201cunrest in Libya is making the price of your gas go up.\u201d Your desire to fill your tank for $5 or $10 less than you now have to pay does not justify several hundred million people across the Middle East living in oppression and cruelty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only people who have a right to be worried about the increase in the price of gas (and everything else, since gas drives the world) are the poor: any relative increase in their cost of living is devastating. Which is why we ought to have an effective welfare state.<\/p>\n

But for the rest of us, middle class (or better off, for those of you who are better off), need to accept that it\u2019s immoral to bemoan cost increases that can be lessened\u00a0only\u00a0by maintaining the suffering of a vast portion of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

The times, as someone once noted, they are a\u2019changin\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hate to do the trite thing and just reblog by adding “THIS”, but really, succinctly put and clearly spelled out. THIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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