--- In [email protected], "richardwillytexwilliams" <willytex@...> wrote: > > > > johnlasher20002000: > > "The god they serve, the financial system, > > is a dying god..." > > > "If inequality had really exploded during the > past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics > simultaneously move rightward toward a greater > embrace of free-market capitalism? >
Because propaganda works. > Shouldn't just the opposite have happened as > beleaguered workers united and demanded a vastly > expanded social safety net and sharply higher > taxes on the rich? What happened to presidents > Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry? > Propaganda works. > Even Barack Obama ran for president as a market > friendly, third-way technocrat. > > Nope, the story doesn't hold together because the > financial facts don't support it..." > Nope, because the AEI lies about the financial facts and people like willytex believe their lies...because propaganda works. > '5 reasons why income inequality is a myth and > Occupy Wall Street is wrong' > http://tinyurl.com/63f6ukv > "Columbia Journalism Review has a takedown of a "study" from American Enterprise Institute purporting to show that inequality hasn't increased, after all. What's striking is the way AEI doesn't even resort to the usual practice of concocting misleading numbers; it just flat-out lies about what various other peoples' research, like Robert Gordon's work, actually says." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/denial-in-depth/
