President Bush has got to be the most powerful man to ever walk the face of the earth. Kevin Drum has a long post today about the growth in inequality in income and a discussion attempting to debunk the ‘myth’ of income mobility. He has some very telling charts, and then closes with this sweeping indictment of our current President:
This is fundamentally unhealthy in a democratic society. When the rich absorb more and more of the economic growth of the nation, and the poor begin to lose hope of economic advancement, you have a potentially toxic combination. George Bush and the policies of the Republican party are making this ever worse, and someday soon the poor and middle class are going to figure out what’s going on. How about 2004?
Here are the charts- why am I laughing?
For his next trick, Bush will explain how he shot Kennedy, started WWI and WWII, and helped to craft the policies that led to the Stock Market Crash. By the way, he apologizes for starting the Aids epidemic.