CSPAN Washington This Week December 25, 2011
i think it would be a good thing if we lived in a society where all boats rose together, which was the case for most of the early post-war decades. the rich got richer, made a lot of money, but the middle class rose, the working-class rose. starting in the 1970's, we entered a different kind of economy in which only the costs -- gots really went up. the income of the top 100% have grown by almost 300% since 1979 while the incomes of middle- class and working-class have barely moved at all. that is not the kind of society we want to live in and that is the kind of situation we get whe...