Bob Herbert leaves bastion of neoliberalism in order to actually fucking do shit.

[doe_witch]

Losing Our WayBy BOB HERBERT

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[rock_bottom]

Great piece, he nailed it.

[brewsternorth]

The NYT op-ed page won't be the same without him, but I wish him well.

[fishphile]

Great article.

I'll definitely miss him. He routinely had great pieces.

[beuk]

As the Economic Policy Institute has reported, the richest 10 percent of Americans received an unconscionable 100 percent of the average income growth in the years 2000 to 2007

HOLY SHIT, I was not aware of this. FUCK THIS.

[vanillakokakola]

i can't even wrap my head around that. like... what? how is that possible? why did we let that become possible? and lastly, what the FUCK

[angry_chick]

Because rich people provide us jobs, and we'll allow ourselves to be disenfranchised as long as we're working a shitty job with no benefits.

Depressing comment is depressing

[cyranothe2nd]

Americans behave as if this is somehow normal or acceptable. It shouldn’t be, and didn’t used to be. Through much of the post-World War II era, income distribution was far more equitable, with the top 10 percent of families accounting for just a third of average income growth, and the bottom 90 percent receiving two-thirds. That seems like ancient history now.

Before the neoliberal classical economists gained so much political power, you mean? *sigh*

Hopefully his book will equal Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" in levels of awesome. But I really fear that America is in for some dark times before things get better. Too many people buy into the ideology, I think (and, even worse, spread it across the globe through endless war and disaster economics). We'll cling to our dying empire long after its ceased to matter.