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Congress != Progress
Between 1983 and 2004 only 10% of all wealth gains went to the bottom 80%. D'Ambrosio & Wolff--Recent Trends in Household Wealth. Does this statement seem right based on your personal life? Can we have a middle class with this kind of trend? An interesting book is"Winner Take All Politics..." by Hacker & Pierson.
Like it or not, we need a gov't to make the rules and hopefully to enforce a level playing field. Money for Wall Street and the bills for Main Street and forclosures for Elm Street does not seem very level to me.
So what would you do to enforce a level playing field?
Screw over bondholders and give GM billions of dollars in gifts apparently.