It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

The crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.

Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?

High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When it comes to welfare payments, they obey the laws of economics, too. Indeed, if something - like unemployment - is subsidized, more of it will be produced.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.