6 Shocking Ways Conservatives Helped Cause the Economic Destruction of America

[Joanne98]

By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future
Posted on June 20, 2010, Printed on June 21, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147262/

It seems that you can look at a chart of almost anything and right around 1981 or soon after you'll see the chart make a sharp change in direction, and probably not in a good way. And I really do mean almost anything, from economics to trade to infrastructure to ... well almost anything. I spent some time looking for charts of things, and here are just a few examples. In each of the charts below look for the year 1981, when Reagan took office.

Conservative policies transformed the United States from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation in just a few years, and it has only gotten worse since then:



Working people's

share

of the benefits from increased productivity took a sudden turn down:



This resulted in intense

concentration

of wealth at the top:



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http://www.alternet.org/story/147262/6_shocking_ways_conservatives_helped_cause_the_economic_destruction_of_america/

[Demeter]

1. Yup--and that's the GOOD part.

[Soylent Brice]

2. K&R

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Good info.

Thanks, Joanne.

[yurbud]

4. sad but true