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In reply to the discussion: CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!11!!1!! [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)NPR was talking to a Union Rep, and explaining for all of us who turned in on our drive home after work, that Union's led to the great Middle Class of the past. At that time, roughly a third of the money flowed to the very rich. Now, it's about half of all the money goes to the very rich.
So the argument is they spend it, and hire people. Ten years later, with all the money they've been making, who has been hired? A Gardener that they want to deport. A maid they want to deport. And more lawyers who work around the clock to make sure the very rich don't pay any taxes.
Think about that, half the money goes to the very rich. HALF. The rest of us are struggling to survive. But Lord no we can't tell that SOB sitting on HALF the money this nation made this year to cough up a little. THAT would be bad for the economy.
Tell me again why having more than eight percent unemployed, millions of empty houses, are all good for the rich economy?
Yet the Clinton economic policy led to a booming economy, and budget surplus' instead of deficit. But that was bad because the rich paid more right?