What caused the income inequality gap that started in the 70's?

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  1. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

    Ain't that the damn truth.
     
  2. LSUMASTERMIND

    LSUMASTERMIND Founding Member

    amen, its like a strip club, whoever is making it rain.
     
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  3. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

    His veep, Al Gore, invented the internet.
     
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  4. Tiger in NC

    Tiger in NC There's a sucker born everyday...

    I think luck, or the lack thereof, plays into any Presidency and Clinton is no exception. He definitely had the pleasure of holding office during a time when, as you say, the internet was taking off. That said, he did a lot of things to help foster ideal conditions for that boom to happen.
     
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  5. gumborue

    gumborue Throwin Ched

    I'm pretty sure that earl warren was dead by the time all this was happening
     
  6. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

    Economic changes are glacial. Clinton presided in an era when the economic policies of Ronald Reagan were begging to bear fruit.
     
  7. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

    George Bush I continued Reagan's economic policies and failed to get re-elected for it, despite winning the Gulf War. The economy, stupid.

    Reagan and the failed concept of trickle-down economics were long gone in the Clinton era.
     
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  8. Tiger in NC

    Tiger in NC There's a sucker born everyday...

    The problem with this popular conservative talking point is that it simply isn't rooted in reality. In reality there is room for both economic models, conservative and liberal, with each having it's appropriate time and place.
     
  9. gumborue

    gumborue Throwin Ched

    they were "begging" all right.
     
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  10. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

    funny though faulty.
     

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