Reply #125: I am not an economist but have been called upon to play one.... [View All]

[WilliamHenryMee]

That's right in my state government job I was tasked with making economic projections and in understanding where revenues and expenditures were going in the future. The crystal ball kind of a thing....

Its hard work but it seems that Time for Change has the magic to pull it all together. He has put together an awesome article. I am reminded of the call to our Highway Department economist Henry Norris to "use your voodoo and doo what you do so well....."

I have seen the charts and links before in this article but to have them all in one place is a great job. Time for Change has 8,700 posts since 2004, quite an achievement.

This "redistribution of wealth" issue is probably the biggest thing America needs to do. It was done by FDR with the WPA and Truman with the G.I. Bill. Getting the middle class to expand and getting all their kids to college is what drives American consumerism---this is the best way to make the rich richer; and it is a moral way to do it.

"Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," is a quotation of Honor'e de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850)in the book Le Père Goriot (1835) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac.