Can't just one Senator can stand up on the floor with some simple graphs?

[pauldp]

Hmm, so what was that that happened in 1980? Oh right the "New Morning for America".

Aside from a brief blip during the latter part of the Clinton years, thirty years of historically low tax rates for the wealthy have done nothing for the bottom 90% of Americans.

It has however made the top 1% insanely wealthy.

And then there is CEO salaries as a multiple of average worker's salaries:




The past 10 years should have been more than enough to teach this lesson, but we now have over 30 years of data showing that supply side/trickle down was a total failure. Yet Republicans are STILL getting away with this Reagonomics bullshit. And we're actually acting like the might have a point?!!

Then today in perusing a news story of how Senate Republicans are blocking the middle-class tax bill, I came upon this little gem of a post:

"Do the wealthy dig holes in their yards to bury that "extra cash"? No, they INVEST IT. That cash creates JOBS!
Must one be retarded to believe the total nonsense being put out by the Democrat Propagana writers?"

I hear this kind of ignorant non-sense all the time - even from my family members. Usually these days it's accompanied by a spitting of that most heinous of epithets "Socialism!". Amazing considering Bush 2 presided over the most sluggish job growth since Hoover while at the same time giving the wealthy unprecedented tax cuts.

This is not hard. The numbers don't lie. This seems to be a matter of educating the obtuse. I guess people really are that dumb. So how do we get our democratic leaders to stand up and shout - "LOOK! We have The EVIDENCE. SUPPLY SIDE WAS A FAILURE! Hey Senate Republicans - where is YOUR evidence? !! Oh that's right, you don't have any. None.





Thanks to my friend A. Howard Goldiner, sociologist, for enlightening me further on this subject.

[L. Coyote]

1. Dorgan?

[leftstreet]

2. Where is Ross Perot?

[pauldp]

3. Exactly. Reagan did it. Obama could do it if he wanted to.

[pauldp]

4. next day kick. nt

[pauldp]

5. self delete.