The New Republic

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- MikeB.

August 26, 2010 at 9:35pm

Chait, and liberals in general, mistake cause of and effect of wage inequality. If you do the research and the regression analysis , the inequality is almost entirely explained by difference education/skills/choice of career. So the less productive get paid less and the more productive get paid more. Even Homer would say Duh! Liberals are the root cause of this inequality with teacher unions blocking more effective educations and liberal politicians promoting the insidious myth that Gov takes care of you.

- mr_rationale

August 29, 2010 at 1:01pm

I believe in this economy today, worker productivity is exceptionally high, yet wages are still stagnant. You should take a look at Nickel and Dimed as well, where people work their butt off, yet see no rise, or very little rise, in wages. It has nothing to do with productivity. Productivity today for the vast majority of workers yield stagnant wages, unless you are one of the lucky few, the very very few who are lucky in this country and get paid high incomes. And who is saying the government will take care of you? The government spends lavishly FOR high income earners-from stimulus projects, bailouts, tax cuts. What are you talking about? You act like we're living in Jimmy Carter's era, but that ship has sailed. What we do know, now more than ever, is that tax cuts to the very rich do not equate economic success for the majority. And the unceasing rise of income inequality merits serious deliberation that totalistic thinkers like yourself are incapable of undertaking.

- RedState

August 30, 2010 at 12:50pm