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Related: About this forumAmerica Keeps People Poor On Purpose: A Timeline of Choices We've Made to Increase Inequality
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America Keeps People Poor On Purpose: A Timeline of Choices We've Made to Increase InequalityInequality: The Choices We've Made Yes Magazine
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America Keeps People Poor On Purpose: A Timeline of Choices We've Made to Increase Inequality (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2014
OP
Reaganomics worked in the 80's and still working, never did trickle down, stuck and we need to
Thinkingabout
Sep 2014
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. K/R (nt)
littlemissmartypants
(25,499 posts)2. I love Yes magazine.
Thanks for posting, applegrove.
~ littlemissmartypants 🙆
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)3. Great post.
I saw that on Bill Moyers' page. Very important.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. And check out the Yes! Magazine website. Always good stuff there.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. Reaganomics worked in the 80's and still working, never did trickle down, stuck and we need to
Return to union jobs, establish pensions for workers and better pay.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)5. I can immediately spot two huge omissions
1971 - Nixon closes the gold window, untethering the currency from any objective standard, a necessary requirement for the future bubble-blowing that wrecked the middle class;
1999 - Graham-Leach-Bliley Act repeals Glass-Steagall, taking out the last barrier to infinite banking leverage, which put us in a state of constant, massive monetary abuse - from this point forward incomes have steadily dropped in real terms while GDP has allegedly risen.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)7. Adding link to Yes Magazine, full article.
applegrove
(123,149 posts)8. I don't know why the link didn't render for me. Thanks.