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Politicians and corporations are responsible
You see no fault with unlimited spending in public elections and compare it to free speech (even though over 80% of people disagree and over 96% support campaign finance reform). You dismiss the value of political polls when they disagree with your narrative. The conservative judges on the Supreme Court (2 of whom rank in the top 5 of most conservative judges of all time and Scalia earning an embarrassing 0.00 on the Segal-Cover score) said so, so you say that makes it right... Except when they vote on things you personally disagree with, then to you it's just a liberal bias/a liberal conspiracy/a liberal cover up/et al.. The story is always the same with conservatives.
What exactly are you dismissing in Wolff's presentation? The information he presents is exactly the same thing I've been talking about in this thread, he even cites Saez & Piketty in the first 2 minutes and gives you a source to check the information yourself.
The mathematical conclusion being:
1979-2012 % Growth
Lowest 20% -12.1%
20-40% -0.1%
40-60% +8.4%
60-80% +20.3%
Top 20% +48.8%
Top 5% +103.2%
Top 1% +184.9%
Top 0.1% +383.8%
Top 0.01% +685.1%
Which means that when you average the data, 60% of Americans (~200 million people) suffered an economic loss between 1979-2012, Wolff points out that this took place simultaneously as women entered the workforce by the millions giving most households 2 incomes making the numbers even worse
This is the effect of an economic policy that benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor, compounded by exponential financial influence in political elections
Who are you arguing with? It certainly isnt me.
I guess that money in politics = unfair wealth distribution = take money out of politics and re-distribute it into your pocket...
It is not the purpose of government to control the welfare streams of income for groups of people.
It is not the purpose of government to determine who can donate to political campaigns, when and under what circumstances. It is like asking the fox to watch the hen house.
You do not seem to understand that the very government you look to as the fix for the situation is the monster that created the problem. You dont go to a meth addict and demand that he legislate himself out of his meth supply... If you think the politicians will take money out of their OWN pockets you are delusional. You still believe their promises because SCIENCE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT !!
You still do not understand that how much money your neighbor has is not relative to your situation except that the more he has the better it likely is for you if you are a producer in society. You have yet to understand the concept that making the rich guy poorer will somehow make you more wealthy rather than the opposite. I dont know why you are bothering with any further college, you are fully indoctrinated. Go talk to the dean and he will probably give you an honorary masters. Oh wait, they take every penny they can steal from you before they do that... LOL!!!
Kids these days....
