05-07-2020, 04:52 AM
(05-06-2020, 10:57 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: To the contrary. While wages rose only slowly in the 3T, and a significant proportion of the excess productivity did enrich the elites, much of the excess productivity was spent in ensuring more security for nonelites, specifically through financing the Social Security Ponzi scheme that made GI and Silent retirees so much more secure, and through welfare programs that made those "unable" to work more secure.
Welfare and Social Security were progressive era programs, and existed long before the 3T. It would be closer to the truth to say these were attacked by the conservatives during the 3T, that anything that provided for the people was systematically weakened.
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