[GPSCC-chat] Obama & Economic Recovery

[eden]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 20:03, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:
>      To the extent that money wins elections, Obama can't afford to pay more
> than lip service to the bottom 90% of the US populace.  As indicated in the
> attached plot of data from the US Census bureau, Bill Clinton was the only
> president since Lyndon Johnson who who made the economy grow for all
> Americans.  You want to know why the ultra right in the US spent millions of
> dollars in privately funded investigations in the 1990s trying to find a way
> to destroy him?  Here's the answer.
>
>
>      I think Obama knows this.  Until a critical mass of the US electorate
> starts getting their news and world views from other sources, Obama must
> toady to the ultra-wealthy or face the same kind of intense hostility from
> the media that got Clinton impeached.
>
>
>      Moral:  If you lie to the world in order to murder hundreds of
> thousands of people for essentially no good reason, that's wonderful as long
> as the ultra wealthy get their cut.  Otherwise, they will find a way to get
> you.
>
>
>      Enjoy.
>      Spencer

   Thank you very much for articulating what i've been thinking for a
long time... even before the election of Obama.

   Can you point me to the source of the data and your diagram? I'd
love to do some spreadsheet manipulation of that data.

   Thank you.

-- 
eden