The only chart you need to see why Obama and the Ds will slash Social Security if they can
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Submitted by lambert on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 9:10am
(From that Hacker and Peirson's Book, Winner Take All). Obama, and the Ds, are just being responsive to their true constituency -- their owners. And both parties hate the poor. But notice the split in the middle class, and how it changes over time. Elizabeth Warren, I would think, is meant to handle temporary perception problems until the looting is over. The rich think our money is theirs, and the Ds are with them. Too bad, so sad.
NOTE Valley Girl made the chart. More discussion here.
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Don't know that it's in the book you mention
Maybe they quoted it- I was looking for something similar- the bar graphs are from an article by Thomas Hayes on Senate responsiveness (.pdf).
"Senate responsiveness in an era of inequality"
http://www.democ.uci.edu/research/confer...
btw, this post doesn't show up unless I'm logged in. Otherwise, 1st post is Mad as Hell Doctors.
Valley Girl, I couldn't get regular formatting until I hit Save
on the comment settings (threaded, number per page, etc.).
Don't know if that will help with this problem....
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There, I fixed it.
The only chart you need to see why Obama and the Ds will slash Social Security
if they canas soon as possible after the election.Would be nice to see the 90s on a similar graph
and all the way to the 70s if the data existed. Is that in the book?
The charts above tell a disturbing story.
They portray the Republicans - to some extent - as genuine champions of the middle class, in contrast to the Democrats.
However, considering that Republicans are even more devoted to free trade than Democrats are, I wonder about the accuracy of the charts themselves.