Comments on: Income Inequality Hits Post-WWII Record

The Skinny: Richest 1 Percent Of Americans Taking Home Almost A Quarter Of The Pie

[whispyseas]

'' ... if the four year olds are getting tortured, then slam the ten year olds in detention ... that will sure teach them how to rule well or else ... and to think such messages originate with those what care enough to call the d.a.r.eing a school house war ... ''

'' ... infinite divergence said eternity, it''s like if i cut you with my knife, then i''ve not cut you i''ve cut myself, if you cut me with a knife, then you''ve not cut me, i''ve cut myself ... i have a few faces to choose from, a face where i cut you, a face where you cut me, a face where we are apart, and a face where we make babies together, and you have as many faces, and we each make a selection of the path to choose, we each walk each path and each choose to view any one or more of the paths at any time and in any order that we choose, and whichever path or paths we choose to observe together at anytime, that is where are this part of you and i, here and now ... ''

[whispyseas]

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'' ... 300 folk in 300 weeks can assemble 90,000 little museums of medical you are here map song dance skit kit ... ''

[whispyseas]

'' ... a naked girl walked in and said i''ve here a tiny acorn i''ll make shine like the sun, and folk doubted, and the girl scratched her head and said e=mc2, and everyone dropped their jaws and shook their heads and said, you really can make that shine like the sun ... and magic happened ... and once, another girl said, i can sail a straight line to here without falling off the globe for the world is round, and she made folk believe, and folk believed, and magic happened ... then a congress said, give us trillions of dollars of weapons and we swear no one will get mugged or raped or killed, and they made folk believe and folk believed, and magic happened ... ''

'' ... little naked girls know well, if one puts a naked girl on a news desk dancing get well feed world songs rallied around the sick beds, then the world will fill with naked girls on news desks everywhere, which is why little naked girls don''t get on news desks, to give little dressed armed boys a chance ... ''

'' ... the coach entered the locker room screaming and hollering about the *** he caught on his team, and the girls all laughed ''coach coach coach, where have you been'', and a little naked boy walked in and said, ''let''s play ball y''all ... ''

'' ... the silly parrot tripped me, somebody get it ... ''

'' ... 36 sick beds each day, 7 days each week, for 36 dollars each day ... ''

[donbl1]

Good graph in today''s WSJ displaying the income inequality growth rate over the last 50 years. Steadily UP - except during recessions.

The Clinton inequality years were a ramp because of the dot com stock market and the inequality fell off dramatically at the 2001 recession and has only now reached the Clinton induced inequality.

The increasing income inequality has been going on for a long time through Democratic and Replublican Presidents and Congresses.

We aren''t communists so is this the normal consequence of a developed country in a democracy? Or, is this just the product of increasing technology leaving some workers behind?

[bthrasher102]

Using ibsteve2u''s logic you can''t blame bush for anything that has happened since the democrats gained control of congress. I love how it''s always someone else''s fault. I almost want a democrat president and congress so you''ll wake up when you''re paying more taxes that you''ll never get back. Who will you blame then. You assume that bush has all the power in the world, but clinton had none?

[missingamerica]

Comparisons to what? This gap has been increasing for a long time. I hate to break this to you, but democrats ran the country during some of this time period. Blaming a sitting president for something that has been getting worse for a half century is stupid and you know it.

Posted by bthrasher102 at 04:04 PM : Oct 12, 2007

You use interesting numbers, like stating that it started "a half century ago". Go to:

http://www.demos.org/inequality/numbers.cfm

You will see that Reagan started it, and it understandably accelerated under Clinton (it was impossible to fight the lobbyist money behind "no new taxes", and once you get a big chunk of money it enables you to go out and get more chunks), and is accelerating even faster thanks to the Bush tax cuts.

All because of that irrational "trickle down" idea.

I mean, c''mon - when one rich person garners the income of 1000 workers, is he or she going to put that money back into circulation by buying 1000 washers or dryers, 1000 cars, 4000 bags of groceries a week, and on and on and on?

"Trickle down economics" is merely greed hidden behind gobbledigook.

[bthrasher102]

Comparisons to what? This gap has been increasing for a long time. I hate to break this to you, but democrats ran the country during some of this time period. Blaming a sitting president for something that has been getting worse for a half century is stupid and you know it.

[missingamerica]

No surprise.

Those people at the receiving end of the inequality curve, in combination with those people who are benefiting from the 10-year chart of XOI, are the very same people that got Bush elected.

Before you say it, yes they also had to dupe the Christian coalition et al among the conservatives in order to reach today''s (Reagan started it) rate of wealth consolidation.

Which even they are beginning to recognize, now.

[starleo146]

You know Mc Vet can stick up for him/her self better than I can do it. She/He is angry with all that is allowed to go on. No one seems to care and in her/his own way she/he is trying to open your eyes. If it takes strong words, whatever just keep the word going. I understand her/him and agree 100%. So shut up and listen, you will finally see the comparisons.

[starleo146]

Income inequality is at post WWII levels? What do you expect when the repukes have been running the show for so long. They look out for their base: "The haves and have-mores" to quote the chimp-in-chief, and the rest of us can eat dog food.

Posted by motherjones at 12:09 PM : Oct 12, 2007

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT IT HAS TO BE SAID OVER AND OVER.So many have suffered under this Pres. and it is time for a new day, a new dawn, no one stays down forever.