The President slurping and derping suspect statistics?
J'amais!
From Brookings.
"This claim of falling upward mobility — of diminished opportunity — rang false to me. The figures were new and of unknown origin, and they contradicted most of the research that has been conducted to date. Upward mobility is too limited in the U.S. today, and it is lower than it is in other countries (a fact cited by Rick Santorum in a recent Republican presidential debate). But upward mobility does not have to be falling for it to be too limited, and there is only the thinnest evidence that it has fallen over time. I suspected that the administration had sought out new mobility figures that would solidify the populist story of diminished opportunity that formed the basis of the Kansas speech (and perhaps of a 2012 campaign narrative)."
Further research revealed that the evidence behind the president’s mobility claim is irreparably flawed. His figures are based on a very sophisticated — but unreliable — back-of-the-envelope analysis that was intended to get around data limitations. And this is far from being simply an academic question. In this case bad evidence discourages people struggling to escape poverty. It unnecessarily increases Americans’ anxiety levels and adds to the general sense of gloom that has sapped consumer confidence, thereby increasing the agonizing slowness of the recovery.
Populist crap works to scare the children though. The PQ here in Quebec are good at demonizing 'les riches.' If Obama can't see how his empty rhetoric actually damages people, maybe it's time he considers laying off. His constant strategy of dividing people through class warfare is actually counter productive. He's showing no enlightened thinking on any level.
Like the statistics don't back up more gun control, or minimum wage or anything else, they don't support the left's view on upward mobility.
They may want to take a peek at inflation and how government mandated wages tend to impact employment and purchasing power negatively.
Bah. Easier to derp about corporations and the 1% and the Koch brothers and how McDonald's is responsible for obesity. Just because and, you know, Naomi Klein and the such.
The cold hard fact and truth is we've never been wealthier and healthier at any point in human history.
J'amais!
From Brookings.
"This claim of falling upward mobility — of diminished opportunity — rang false to me. The figures were new and of unknown origin, and they contradicted most of the research that has been conducted to date. Upward mobility is too limited in the U.S. today, and it is lower than it is in other countries (a fact cited by Rick Santorum in a recent Republican presidential debate). But upward mobility does not have to be falling for it to be too limited, and there is only the thinnest evidence that it has fallen over time. I suspected that the administration had sought out new mobility figures that would solidify the populist story of diminished opportunity that formed the basis of the Kansas speech (and perhaps of a 2012 campaign narrative)."
Further research revealed that the evidence behind the president’s mobility claim is irreparably flawed. His figures are based on a very sophisticated — but unreliable — back-of-the-envelope analysis that was intended to get around data limitations. And this is far from being simply an academic question. In this case bad evidence discourages people struggling to escape poverty. It unnecessarily increases Americans’ anxiety levels and adds to the general sense of gloom that has sapped consumer confidence, thereby increasing the agonizing slowness of the recovery.
Populist crap works to scare the children though. The PQ here in Quebec are good at demonizing 'les riches.' If Obama can't see how his empty rhetoric actually damages people, maybe it's time he considers laying off. His constant strategy of dividing people through class warfare is actually counter productive. He's showing no enlightened thinking on any level.
Like the statistics don't back up more gun control, or minimum wage or anything else, they don't support the left's view on upward mobility.
They may want to take a peek at inflation and how government mandated wages tend to impact employment and purchasing power negatively.
Bah. Easier to derp about corporations and the 1% and the Koch brothers and how McDonald's is responsible for obesity. Just because and, you know, Naomi Klein and the such.
The cold hard fact and truth is we've never been wealthier and healthier at any point in human history.
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