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Drunken Irishman

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4. They would've regained nothing because it didn't exist.

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 22, 2013, 07:22 PM

Dec 2013

Just look at the graph. Long before the 1980s arrived, the middle and working class saw minimal gains anywhere - as the line is pretty flat from the early 1900s all the way to today - and that is through a great deal of Democratic presidents (including FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton).

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