Let’s Be Honest About U.S. History
It’s fine to be a conservative economist like Thomas Sowell, but it would be even better if he didn’t make gross mistakes like this.
From the mid-1930s through the start of the 1980s, the U.S. public sector, with the help of high tax rates imposed on the very richest of Americans, helped build a well-educated and extremely prosperous middle class. This included not only white guys returning from the war, but also expanding opportunity for women, immigrants and nonwhite workers.
Sadly, this eventually gave way to Ronald Reagan and “trickle-down economics,” but the entire half-century event stands out in world history as a shining example of what government can do to enhance the lives of the better part of an entire population.
The author of this meme doesn’t understand too much about the world, e.g., how anti-democratic forces around the globe are working to unseat us, how rogue states are working to build nuclear weapons, and how terrorists forces threaten us all.
Given the fragility of the world’s balance of power, anything’s possible for the U.S. and global economy.
Ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” asks the question at left, and writes:
Fortunately, only a small percentage of Americans believe this crap, and it’s fewer every day.
At left we find an interesting perspective.
There’s a valuable message here.
Anna Kaplan hopes to replace George Santos in Congress. She claims that he’s running again, and says, “I need your (campaign donations) to beat him at the ballot box.”
I’m afraid I have bad news: No donations are going to change the belief systems of tens of millions of hateful idiots.
Most American consumers are at least somewhat concerned about the fuel economy that their cars provide, though, of course, many of these folks’ interest in the subject is rooted in how much they’re paying at the pump.
