I have a lot of problems with the wording of this headline. Don’t get me wrong — I love KMOX and am listening online to The Charlie Brennan Show as I type this. But this is exactly the type of headline, and media story, that gets people to buy into the blatantly false idea that it is the government’s job to get people out of poverty and manage the economy.

Even if you are of the regrettable belief that it is the proper role of government to manage the economy, headlines like this make it sound like the government somehow is good at doing that. Which it ain’t. Seriously, does anyone believe that even one family is going to be lifted out of the cycle of poverty because the Board of Aldermen and the mayor passed an ordinance? I am not criticizing the elected officials, here; I am just pointing out that headlines like this reinforce economic ignorance.