New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait, always a good read, apparently believes a) income inequality is exploding like a supernova, and b) the American middle-class is no better off today than it was 30 years ago.
In fact, he believes the evidence for those beliefs so incontrovertible/bullet-proof/ironclad, that anyone challenging them is a “denier” and should be shunned like someone contesting the Holocaust—or even global warming.
You know, I’m getting rather tired of these asswipes who use the Holocaust in the name of their pet political cause. They obviously don’t realize how stupid it is to compare a difference in political opinion (and that include AGW) to the systematic murder of 11 million people.
That Chait is hopelessly ineducable reminds me a little bit of the interview I heard on NPR this morning where the host, Steve Inskeep, was badgering Greg Mankiw about the significance of “income inequality” and was apparently so blind to his own biases that the couldn’t comprehend that there was a significant disagreement over first premises. Even more amazing, though, are some of the comments here by some of the NPR listeners who see the mere act of featuring an interview with Mankiw as evidence of conservative bias at NPR; apparently they didn’t detect the relentless leftist bias in Inskeep’s questions.
New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait, always a good read, apparently believes a) income inequality is exploding like a supernova, and b) the American middle-class is no better off today than it was 30 years ago.
In fact, he believes the evidence for those beliefs so incontrovertible/bullet-proof/ironclad, that anyone challenging them is a “denier” and should be shunned like someone contesting the Holocaust—or even global warming.
You know, I’m getting rather tired of these asswipes who use the Holocaust in the name of their pet political cause. They obviously don’t realize how stupid it is to compare a difference in political opinion (and that include AGW) to the systematic murder of 11 million people.
That Chait is hopelessly ineducable reminds me a little bit of the interview I heard on NPR this morning where the host, Steve Inskeep, was badgering Greg Mankiw about the significance of “income inequality” and was apparently so blind to his own biases that the couldn’t comprehend that there was a significant disagreement over first premises. Even more amazing, though, are some of the comments here by some of the NPR listeners who see the mere act of featuring an interview with Mankiw as evidence of conservative bias at NPR; apparently they didn’t detect the relentless leftist bias in Inskeep’s questions.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/03/141969009/economics-class-protests-perceived-bias
Kurt, fish don’t know they’re wet.