I want to vote for that man
Mark Kleiman summarizes Edwards's speech to the California Democratic Convention.Of course I also want to vote for Obama and even Clinton (Clinton because she's a woman and to make wingnuts' heads explode).
I particularly love primary school for the whole world.
"What if we committed to funding primary education for every child in the world?"
That would transform history. Of course it's not going to happen, but the thought of a President who is as mad as I am that it's not going to happen gives me chills.
On income inequality an interesting rhetorical strategy
"Income inequality: the top 300,000 earners earn more than the bottom 150 million."
There are currently fewer than 146 million employed Americans. Also the top 300,000 get less than 14% of total income (that is double the figure for top 0.1% from
Saez click where it says "NEW" in red).
Clearly Edwards is comparing the income of the super rich to pensioners and housewive's. "Earners" means income recipients not employed people. This is not really fair to the appalling US economy. I am all in favor of clever rhetoric in a good cause. The issue is immense and, I'm sure, a huge game changing crush the Republicans for decades vote winner.
Light blogging as I am teaching a graduate tiny mini module of a course on inequality and economic growth. I use more equations, but the bottom line is that Edwards is right about how to achieve economic growth and equality and ... damn it's 2007. How am I going to stand the wait until November 4 2008 ?