>> crime rates go up when people live below a certain level and there's a cost to you and me for that.
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>>He was right. I shut up and we helped the guy finish the round.
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>Don't confuse inequality with poverty, my NY/NJ friend. :)
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>Just curious - if you lived under the exact same economic conditions as your caddy, would YOU commit crimes / violent crimes? Do you think I would as well? If so, I detect a pattern of generalization, which is potentially flawed.
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>But if you can say that you wouldn't, then you're implicitly stating there's something beyond just economic status - that somehow you have moral/ethics/values underpinnings that the other person didn't.
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>I don't like Bill O'Reilly much - truthfully the older I get, the more issues I have with him. But it is on this specific topic that I agree with him nearly 100%.
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>I am not saying that economic status plays 0% of a factor - but I am saying that character plays a much bigger role than the DNC/pitchfork zeitgeist would like you to believe. And there's a reason they don't want people to believe that - because to state that character and values play a significant role in crime would mean acknowledging that people espousing old-fashioned values have a point.

You're imagining yourself but with no money. I bit like a politician who says they'll live on minimum wage for a week to show how "easy" it is. Try living at the bottom of the pile for a few years with your wife and daughter and see if it alters your character at all.