George Rebane
A progressive argues that America’s income inequality has actually increased under Obama, instead of having decreased per their national narrative. This is shown in RL Crabb’s comment stream (here) where I contended with a typically snarky liberal about the Gini Index worldwide rankings. I used a 2007 CIA table that gave GI = 0.45 for the US, and the liberal used the more recent Wikipedia value of 0.47. GI ranges between 0 (total equality) and 1 (total inequality). In reality, GI changes slowly because it reflects the slowly changing income distribution over an entire economy. The liberal then argued that America’s income distribution became more unequal under Obama. BTW, my point on Bob’s blog was to illustrate that the GI is not a reliable indicator of autocratic vs liberal governance, showing that both kinds of countries had GIs both greater and less than that of the US. This point was totally lost on the liberal genius.
Lest we forget –
The Left claims that the Hunter Biden scandal is a manufactured ‘October Surprise’. Seamus Bruner is the associate director of research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) counters, “A lot of people think this is, you know, (an) October surprise or just for the election to tarnish Joe Biden’s name … These stories were released in 2018 in a book called ‘Secret Empires’. … Joe Biden wasn’t a candidate, we didn’t ever think Joe Biden would run for president, we kind of just followed the money.”
I love capitalism. We just got back from the weekly shopping at Safeway. I bitched to the manager last time that they were always out of tonic water; they should change their inventory policy on that SKU. He thanked me and promised he’d solve the problem. And sure enough, today there was tonic water galore. Also, their first edition of plastic grocery bags were on the fringe of fragile. They saw the problem and had their supplier up the heft, and now we have plastic bags so sturdy that they are reusable. In more regulated economies – those I’ve experienced in Europe – if you lodged such a complaint to a clerk, you’d get the gimlet for being a disaffected nonconformist. And in places like the USSR/Russia, your complaint would be noted on your state dossier for future reference as a noncompliant misfit. In North Korea the Ugly Fat Kid would have you and your family being re-educated in a labor camp. Guess which of our politically polarized poles likes the UFK’s solution.
[2nov20 update] CDC-attributed corona deaths are a Big Lie according to their own accounting. (more here) It’s the money and lamestream promotion of the Democrats that give rise to maintaining one of this year’s biggest lies in order to influence the election in favor of Bumblebrain. (H/T to reader)
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