[lbo-talk] Krugman on the 40 year arc of the Repugnican Party

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 2 11:37:48 PST 2009


On Jan 2, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> he present course of the U.S. government, murderous aggression abroad
> and a systematic attack on the living standards of large proportions
> of
> the u.s. populace, is going to be intensified by the incoming
> administration

On imperial murder, the Dems more than hold their own in competition with the Reps. But it's an empirical fact - ask Larry Bartels - that income gains are more broadly distributed under D admins than R. And I can tell you that employment grows more rapidly under Ds than Rs. There's no historical precedent for saying that an incoming D admin is going to intensify the attack on living standards.

Doug



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