I was responding to #56, where you claimed that median household income has been flat. If you want to talk about
real income, you should say so.
What happened with that measure 2007-11, as we went from a bubble high to the consequences of the collapse associated with the housing crisis? Down eight percent. Makes flat look better, I'd say. And how about 2002-09, the Bush43 era? Up 1.6%. Sounds pretty flat to me.
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>>Putting more dems in congress to address the poverty issue = (rational people's interpretation) give more free-**** to the people in poverty.
I'd describe that as the reactionary interpretation. Right-wing SSE policies have created a huge disparity of income and wealth in the US. Giving massive and unproductive tax cuts to wealthy households.
Well, you
say it sucks, but the evidence indicates otherwise.
>>adults working at 64%, the lowest in almost 50 years, it's moronic to point to employment and say obama is succeeding.
Given the demographic changes in recent years, particularly the aging of the baby boomer cohort, it's moronic to point to the decline in the labor force participation rate in the past few years as an indication that Obummer is failing.
If you look at the more informative employment-population ratio, that has
increased since 2009.
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It's also higher than it was before 1985, when the economy was generally doing well. Did the economy suck 1948-85?
>>His economy is a failure, and will be remembered as such.
His policies helped dig us out of a big hole we were put in by the GOP SSE Great Recession. That's how they'll be remembered by people who aren't right-wing hacks.
