You gotta love those liberals at Harvard. Reality is staring them in the face and they don’t see it.
You can’t really blame them. We are all like that. We set up our model of reality, and we stick to it. Even as the model of reality is breaking up before our very eyes.
Carrie Lukas went to a class reunion at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a place where they believe that government service is something special, something morally superior to business or the professions.
But they got to listen to a scholarship recipient from Africa. He was really glad to have his scholarship because he was not getting any income from his apartment in Chicago. Why? The renter stopped paying. Good luck getting the tenant evicted or getting a look in at any back rent.
All the laws, he said, favored the tenant over the property owner. So far he’s out more than $20,000 in foregone rent, with thousands more for legal bills and plane tickets from Boston to Chicago. Yet the tenant still was living in his home, rent-free, with no penalty.
The Harvard folks tut-tutted and sympathized with this worthy young man. But none of them connected the dots. It is their politics and their power that is denying this young man the income from his apartment.
Instead the Harvard alums contributed to the scholarship fund and patted “themselves on the back for helping a victim that they helped create.”
You gotta love ’em.
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