Re: [Marxism] The absence of real forces [was: The low point]

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
> 
> But...
> 
> "According to the Congressional
> Budget Office, earnings for the poorest fifth of Americans are also on
> the increase. As Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution noted
> recently in The Washington Post, between 1991 and 2005, ''the bottom
> fifth increased its earnings by 80 percent, compared with around 50
> percent for the highest-income group and around 20 percent for each of
> the other three groups.''   "
> 
> The New York Times,
> Full: 
> <http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/opinion/24brooks.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=4dd49da3Q2FX-KQ26X3Q7E9zz3Xs88Q2BX8Q2BXs5XzNSnSznXs5Q269zzfQ7EQ22(3dY>

Sayan, would it be possible to avoid forwarding undigested muck such as 
this. The Brookings Institute is not to be trusted. This is the 
think-tank that employs Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon, whose 
idiotic op-ed piece in the NY Times made the case that the surge was 
working. It forces us to put on wading boots and dig through the shit in 
order to refute it. We have better use of our time.

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