You always struggle with the big picture. Time after time you throw out a few statistics and say: "see"?
We are in "exactly the same place as 1932. The big picture is that the plutocrats and autocrats have seized the nation through the Republican party and have been laying wast to the social systems we spent 100 years developing and have massacred the middle class and poor.
They must be brought heel and the people need to regain power to control them!
You are giving the Republican retort.
let me preset a different set of statistics:
1) Income inequality is as bad as it was in the 1930's. What good is a low employment rate when wages are so low? 50% of the people live near the poverty level, while the super rich are soo rich there is a back log of private jets. Conspicuous consumption is shameful.
2) The plutocrats have a death grip on the country as seen by one obscene tax cut for the super rich after another which has ballooned our debt.
3) After the 2008 crash where the middle class lost 40 of their wealth, the administration helped and protected the super rich, but not the middle class and the super rich bought both stock and real estate at bargain basement prices.
4) The plutocrats have busted the unions which stood at 35% about 40 years ago and are now at about 6% and most of the jobs are low wage service jobs.
5) With citizens united the super rich are buying both politicians and having then having them write legislation favorable to them like low taxes and no regulations and laying waste to the environment. .
6) The super rich plutocrats and autocrats through the Republican party are shredding the social safety net the poor and middle class depend on like food stamps and medicaid, unions, etc.
And there is a 7,8,9 and 10, but I am wore out.
Get it?
<," IMO, we are in exactly the same place we were at in 1932"
In 1932, the unemployment rate was 23.6%, and there was no social safety net. Today, unemployment is about 3.6%, and there's a net.
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