I'm still not seeing it.. It increased from 1989 to 1998, but has been falling since. Everyone got wealthier in the years between 1989 and 2001 - one of the most prosperous decades in the history of this country. But we sure haven't seen any redistribution of wealth to the middle and lower class since 2001, by any measure.
The entire rhetoric that the government is taxing the rich and giving it to the poor is simply not borne out by these statistics or any other. It's nothing more than a scare tactic aimed at angry upper class white men who are rapidly losing their power base. I gag every time I hear one of the ads saying "we have to take back our country". This is not just "their country". It's my country too, and the country of a beautiful blend of peoples of all stripes and colors. The country they want to "take back" or actually "bring back" - the white bread, June Cleaver, WASP only, back of the bus country only exists in the imagination center of their reptilian brains - it sure doesn't exist in the real world. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1989, not 1983, I mistyped the date. > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Under what math system is 7% greater than 8.7%? >> You're going to have to explain how you arrived at this conclusion >> based on those stats ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328373 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
