So what exactly is the issue? Poverty or "inequality?"

Demanding people be outraged by inequality is not the same as demanding they be outraged by poverty. Raging against inequality is tacitly signaling a huge liberal lie: that there are enough "filthy rich" people to pay for social welfare programs for everybody. 

It's a lie. There aren't. Social welfare for poor people means higher taxes for a lot of people who don't want to think of themselves as "rich."

There's nothing brave or generous about saying, "Poverty can be eliminated and it won't cost us anything; we can just mug the filthy rich people." Brave is admitting, "Eliminating poverty means making a lot of middle-class people poorer." 

This column flunks Honesty, Bravery and Compassion all three. It sounds like just another liberal hypocrite who majored in liberal arts, flunked out of seminary, failed at restauranting, writes blogs in his pajamas all day and resents people who earn more than he does.