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Romney can’t help himself
ecthompsonmd May 6, 2012

Mitt Romney can’t help himself. He can’t stay on script. So, he over-sold his case, again. “Just this morning there was some news that came across the wire that said that the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1% and normally that would be cause for celebration, but, in fact, anything over 8%, anything near 8%, anything over 4% is not cause for celebration,” Romney told a crowd while campaigning in Pittsburgh. The last time the unemployment rate was less than 4% was under President Clinton. So, maybe Romney is promoting Clinton policies.

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Why our economy is stuck in neutral
ecthompsonmd November 4, 2011

The great former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, explains why are our economy is not going anywhere. 1. Since 1980 GDP has doubled but wages have been flat. (See graph one and graph two.) It took me a couple of hours to figure out how to graph median income. I don’t know why it was so hard. Anyway, here it is. What do you see? 2. Almost all of the gains have gone to the super rich. 3. The power of the wealthy has driven the top marginal tax rate down since 1979. 4. Our total tax

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