The author is well known for writing books and articles that describe the U.S. way of life in the worst possible terms. In one book, she pretended to be uneduca

The author is well known for writing books and articles that describe the U.S. way of life in the worst possible terms. In one book, she pretended to be uneducated and unskilled, then tried to survive on a minimum wage job. She found, to no one's surprise, that it was difficult. Her conclusion was not that you should strive to do better than that--it was that society and the government should make it easier to scrape along with minimal effort. Her other writings take a similar least-common-denominator approach to every issue, and end with demands for ever more money funnelled to those who put forth the least effort. Her heart is in the right place, but she wants the safety net to be impossibly vast.