A good article by Paul Krugman

[the_outsider]

Not sure if it has already been posted here, but it's a good summary of what's going on.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/opinion/10krugman.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thanks. Excellent, as usual from Krugman.

[TomClash]

3. The best columnist at the Times

along with Herbert.

[Eric J in MN]

2. That op-ed is discussed at my new blog, "Coporate Whores Online"

www.corporatewhoresonline.com

or

www.moveleft.com/cwo.asp

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Exactly right. We need a new generation of Muckrakers.

[DemExpat]

5. I just read this article on the Herald Tribune....

and found it very good as well.

DemEx

[whistle]

6. Krugman proposes this as a possible solution...

<snip>
But the real reasons to worry about the explosion of inequality since the 1970's have nothing to do with envy. The fact is that working families aren't sharing in the economy's growth, and face growing economic insecurity. And there's good reason to believe that a society in which most people can reasonably be considered middle class is a better society - and more likely to be a functioning democracy - than one in which there are great extremes of wealth and poverty.

Reversing the rise in inequality and economic insecurity won't be easy: the middle-class society we have lost emerged only after the country was shaken by depression and war. But we can make a start by calling attention to the politicians who systematically make things worse in catering to their contributors. Never mind that straw man, the politics of envy. Let's try to do something about the politics of greed.
<end snip>

So who has the country voted into power? Republicans, the party of greed and lies.

[Just Me]

7. Moreover, adjusting Upward is a helluva' lot easier than,...

,...adjusting downward.

Have I stated, today, how much I HATE HATE HATE the greedy MO-FOs who are destroying this nation's greatness?

No? Okay. I HATE THEM!!!!! :grr:

[whistle]

8. I hear you....