By any measure, 2016 was a momentous year, capped by the shocking victory of Donald J. Trump. As his choices for his cabinet were unveiled, a sea change in the path of government policy appeared inevitable. What is less clear is whether Mr. Trump’s proposals will help those who put him in office; the postelection stock market euphoria was more about an expected surge in corporate profits than new hope for the working class.
Charts Galore.
Do you want to understand what's going in America? Then check those charts.
Find out who voted for Trump ( what were those black Americans thinking?).
Find out who are affected by Obamacare.
Check what a great job Obama did for the economy, even if the benefits were not evenly divided.
And for comments
Susan Anderson:
If you ignore some little things like two unfunded wars that left the middle east in shambles, a refusal to listen to intelligence that would likely have prevented 9/11 being repeated again, a crashed economy thanks to deregulation and trickledown made worse after Clinton's recovery from Reagan's greedy policies, and a Congress vowing to do nothing for the rest of us because it would make Obama look bad, you can almost make a case.
But you can't. Democrats recover economies, Republicans wreck them. Bush took Clinton's surplus and gave it away and rootin' tootin' sowed enemies and confusion, while sowing unsecured weapons all over the ground.
Obama restored our dignity and Trump has already made us a laughingstock.
Trump is setting the world at enmity with each other, and has put authorities in place to start a McCarthyite purge of earth science.
Stupid and dangerous. Civilizations have collapsed before; hubris and greed have met their match. The planet itself will bring the truth back, but it will not be comfortable, not comfortable at all.
If you ignore some little things like two unfunded wars that left the middle east in shambles, a refusal to listen to intelligence that would likely have prevented 9/11 being repeated again, a crashed economy thanks to deregulation and trickledown made worse after Clinton's recovery from Reagan's greedy policies, and a Congress vowing to do nothing for the rest of us because it would make Obama look bad, you can almost make a case.
But you can't. Democrats recover economies, Republicans wreck them. Bush took Clinton's surplus and gave it away and rootin' tootin' sowed enemies and confusion, while sowing unsecured weapons all over the ground.
Obama restored our dignity and Trump has already made us a laughingstock.
Trump is setting the world at enmity with each other, and has put authorities in place to start a McCarthyite purge of earth science.
Stupid and dangerous. Civilizations have collapsed before; hubris and greed have met their match. The planet itself will bring the truth back, but it will not be comfortable, not comfortable at all.
Susan Anderson:
I hope people will take a close look at these charts. They tell the story and provide proportion in a way endless words cannot. Look particularly at the costs of those tax cuts for the rich, while income equality goes through the roof. And ask yourself why billionaires don't want to pay a living wage. Ask why they'd rather trash the planet than clean up their mess. Ask why the persecute employees who are hurt working for them? This is wrong, just plain wrong.
By the way, I looked up Hayek on Wikipedia, and Republicans who promote an Ayn Rand version are promoting a religion that is not rooted in Hayek's work. He was for a universal minimum income and universal health care.
It's all lies and fakery. It is hard to understand, knowing that many good people have been deceived, how looters and exploiters can sleep at night. Conning people into thinking that letting the superrich take more than their share of wealth while shirking responsibility for the harm their race for profits causes is not Christian.
Privatizing profits and socializing risk is flat out immoral.
I hope people will take a close look at these charts. They tell the story and provide proportion in a way endless words cannot. Look particularly at the costs of those tax cuts for the rich, while income equality goes through the roof. And ask yourself why billionaires don't want to pay a living wage. Ask why they'd rather trash the planet than clean up their mess. Ask why the persecute employees who are hurt working for them? This is wrong, just plain wrong.
By the way, I looked up Hayek on Wikipedia, and Republicans who promote an Ayn Rand version are promoting a religion that is not rooted in Hayek's work. He was for a universal minimum income and universal health care.
It's all lies and fakery. It is hard to understand, knowing that many good people have been deceived, how looters and exploiters can sleep at night. Conning people into thinking that letting the superrich take more than their share of wealth while shirking responsibility for the harm their race for profits causes is not Christian.
Privatizing profits and socializing risk is flat out immoral.
