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To: c.hinton who wrote (2549)	11/7/2008 1:22:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

for all i can tell you are making up figures. For all you can tell? I explicitly said I made up those figures to illustrate the point, there was no claim that they where the actual amounts of income people generated in each time, it was only an example of how relatively less wealth doesn't imply absolutely less wealth, so any statement about relatively less wealth in the 50s is irrelevant. also please note the expansion of social programs under eisenhower in the artical i posted... So what's your point. He didn't expand them as much as FDR or LBJ, but even if he had expanded them more than both but together its not relevant to the point we've been disagreeing about. It says nothing about the absolute wealth of very wealthy people in the 50s compared to the 20s and the 30s. Its ok to change the topic, but don't pretend posts on a new topic are a reply to points about the old topic.