How I Became A Conservative by Al Garner - HTML preview

Contents

Introduction

Chapter   I     Education

How useful was high school?

Vouchers

How useful was college?

Far Left and Far Right

Beware of Idealism

Chapter   II    Oh, to save the world

A      Baptism by fire

Living in Slums

Domestic Version of Peace Corps

B      Reflections

Social Work in the Past

How Not to Study a Gang Banger

Liberal Psychobabble

Social Work Myths

Welfare Reform

The Homeless

Hazlitt on Poverty

Why Immigrants Pass our Poor

Advice to the Poor

C   Independence

How to Kill a Care Home

A Suicidal Friend

Neighborhood Care Homes

Chapter   III      Land lording

A Bad Neighborhood

Living with Bums

Legal Nightmare over Rented Room

Chapter   IV  The light goes on

A     Liberal pitfalls

Liberal Myths

The Liberal Media

Social Classes and Liberals

Liberal Spin on Riots

B     Economics

Discovering Milton Friedman

Discovering Thomas Sowell

What the Free Market Wants

Minimum Wage

Privatization

C     Values

The Decline

Self-pity

Appendix

Liberal and conservative positions

Traditional Values

People, places, publications, think tanks

Author’s bio