<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jones Murphy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morphy@alumni.caltech.edu">morphy@alumni.caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">2011/4/29 Mr Jones <<a href="mailto:mrjones2020@gmail.com">mrjones2020@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jones Murphy <<a href="mailto:morphy@alumni.caltech.edu">morphy@alumni.caltech.edu</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Mr. Jones, your name is impressive, but your argument is not. If what<br>
>> you're saying is true, how do you explain the dramatic redistribution<br>
>> of wealth from rich to poor which occurred from FDR-Carter(scroll down<br>
>> to see the graph of the % of America's wealth held by the top 1%):<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://extremeinequality.org/?page_id=8" target="_blank">http://extremeinequality.org/?page_id=8</a><br>
><br>
> To which I direct you<br>
> here. <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/cgi-bin/facts.php" target="_blank">http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/cgi-bin/facts.php</a><br>
<br>
</div>You just directed me to even more documentation that the current<br>
record-breaking concentration of wealth and opportunity is not<br>
permanent, </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nothing is permanent.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">but is a product of the Reagan legacy, </blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Yeah, Reagan's to blame for it all.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">which has reversed<br>
the FDR legacy and then some. Thanks! So public policy does matter.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wasn't aware anyone was claiming policy doesn't matter.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
You rest my case.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what your case is. That's it's reasonable for CEO's to make over a thousand times an avg. worker? That advanced schemes to skim bigger/faster is good for the masses? That the world looks ok from your Parisian Penthouse, and you sleep comfortably on your $10k bed?</div>
<div>MY case, is that inequality is anything but under control.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd go further, but I've got a dinner to go to. Perhaps later. But we both know it's a waste of time.</div><div> </div>
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<div class="im"><br>
>> And do you seriously believe that Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich and<br>
>> the Progressive Caucus(about 30% of Dems) are just like the Dems on<br>
>> their right, or even worse the Republicans?<br>
><br>
> There are a few who're worth their weight, but most politicians are<br>
> incompetent at best; most tend towards Sociopath. Those few (Kucinich et<br>
> al) are often ineffectual against said moneyed interests (Koch bros, AIPAC,<br>
> Big Corps, etc).<br>
<br>
</div>The progressive pols are ineffectual because they are now vastly<br>
outnumbered,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>More like out-financed.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> thanks to the voters, fewer than 20% of whom now consider<br>
themselves progressives. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Most are too busy worrying about the stupid wedding, or who'll win idol.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That's not a problem with politicians. It's a<br>
problem with the electorate.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. I don't disagree entirely here. Certainly the lot of willful idiots has something to do with this. Politicians have merely become adept predators, in a target rich environment.</div>
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