Philip Greenspun goes trolling and gets (at least up until number seven as of time of reading) some good pushback in his comments.

The funny thing is this :

"What would stop a Reagan-style optimist from saying "look at all the children that our poor people are having, confident that their future will be bright" and citing that as an example of what a fantastic country this is for a poor family?"

If I recall, that's pretty much what Eric Raymond does say