Jamil Jonna wrote: > Do you really believe this line from the article? > > "Above all, the success of the postwar American economy demonstrates that, > contrary to today’s conservative orthodoxy, you can have prosperity without > demeaning workers and coddling the rich." <
I believe he's saying that we demean workers more and coddle the rich more now than we did in the 1950s & 1960s, but the economy was more prosperous (in real GDP growth terms) during that period than now. If I remember correctly, the column was quite critical of the 1950s. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
