A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser rejects thesis that there is a causal link between poverty and
crime:
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one fairly well-established cause of crime is unemployment,
underemployment, and poverty (Scott, as you so eloquently said in
your
"What I'd do to lazy welfare Queens" treatise, idle hands do the
devil's work).

Sorry, but no. I dispute your thesis and your conclusion.
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Reject my thesis and my conclusion if you will. May I offer up the
conclusions of Chinese economists and Chinese leaders on the topic of
income disparity and crime (and revolution):

"SOURCE:
http://www.macrochina.com.cn/english...10002002.shtml

Aug 10 2001

Income disparity in China


Well, Scott?

You offer anti-capitalist propaganda from Communist China about "income
disparity" as evidence? Are you not aware that this is but thinly veiled
justification for taking rich Chinese out and putting a bullet in the back
of their heads because they have presumed to make a profit in a
Communist/Socialist society?

You're going to have to do MUCH better than that.

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