It turns out Elizabeth Warren, favorite senator of the left, is not only a self-described Cherokee without evidence of Cherokee ancestry, but a self-described consumer -finance expert without evidence of any financial savvy. Joining two of her favorite themes, women’s oppression and the cruel inadequacy of the minimum wage, she wrote this in a “tweetstorm” she cohosted the other day with fellow Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand: “2/3 of minimum wage workers are women, but the minimum wage no longer keeps a mom & her baby out of poverty.”
No longer? Perhaps because of the space limitations of her chosen medium, Sen. Warren omitted to mention when exactly it was that the minimum wage kept “a mom & her baby” out of poverty. We wish she would enlighten us—though if she could, The Scrapbook might have to rethink some basic assumptions. We thought we knew—as single mothers of babies think they know with special keenness—that a mother and her baby are not a viable economic unit. That’s why God invented fathers.
