I'm *NOT* going to spend hours developing the requested 50-page document.
What I *will* give you is someplace to go look at if you're actually interested in understanding instead of just making the standard "I'm gonna try to look clever and dismiss him by requesting impossible levels of information."
1: "Please provide verifiable documentation for your assertion" RE: the wealthy making more contributions to Democrats.
Where you can look to see this is a matter of public record - the records on campaign contributions. Although the recent Obama election did not follow the standard pattern (gaining lots of donations from across the board), if you look at the data for elections previous you can see the pattern where Republicans vastly outnumber the Democrats in campaign contributions from a very large number of small donations - that is, primarily from the large numbers of lower-to-middle class donations. Meanwhile, the Democrats get the largest percentage of the money given through very large campaign contributions - that is to say, wealthy individuals pledging thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars to the Democrat cause.
For reference to Democrats increasing the gap between the rich and the poor, again, will just give you the overview -
During the time of the Industrial Revolution, and a period of time I'd be willing to say likely lasted through the world wars, there was, I'm sure there will be not too much debate, a very large problem with business taking advantage of employees. In some parts of this country, that still goes on to a lesser extent, though happily there are no regions where there are a majority of people having to work 80-120 hour work weeks year-round, any more. To solve this problem, a good amount of worker protection laws were put into place.
In the decades since, more and different problems have continued to arise in the arena of employee relations and compensation. Through it all, the Democrats have continued mainly with the same type of legislation. Strengthening union power, decreasing employer power, more and more regulation, raising the minimum wage - on and on and on. The simple assumptions being - if it worked on the old problems, it should work on the new problems. The main flaw being that the world had changed, and blindly doing the same thing over and over was no longer *fixing* the problems, but making them worse.
For instance, you can see this in rising minimum wages. The lowest level of uneducated workers would get more money in wages... bringing them up to the level of minimally educated workers. Then the lowest and minimally educated workers were bumped up some more, bringing them to the level of educated workers. This essentially 'clustered' everyone into a 'class' of workers at the bottom, since the government was now declaring, 'this is what people need to make.' This higher cost of production, along with the clustering of employees, had the result of raising the price of goods - thus resulting in no increase in *buying power* for the workers whose salaries had been increased. Quite the opposite, often this resulted in a *decrease* in buying power for those workers whose salaries had increased, not to mention a more severe decrease in buying power for those workers whose salaries had not changed. Meanwhile, jobs moved out of the areas with an artificially inflated wage level and cost of living, making the situation further exacerbated - now, all the 'clustered' employees got to fight for a reduced number of jobs.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Cite evidence, please.
Date: 2011-02-25 06:24 pm (UTC)What I *will* give you is someplace to go look at if you're actually interested in understanding instead of just making the standard "I'm gonna try to look clever and dismiss him by requesting impossible levels of information."
1: "Please provide verifiable documentation for your assertion" RE: the wealthy making more contributions to Democrats.
Where you can look to see this is a matter of public record - the records on campaign contributions. Although the recent Obama election did not follow the standard pattern (gaining lots of donations from across the board), if you look at the data for elections previous you can see the pattern where Republicans vastly outnumber the Democrats in campaign contributions from a very large number of small donations - that is, primarily from the large numbers of lower-to-middle class donations. Meanwhile, the Democrats get the largest percentage of the money given through very large campaign contributions - that is to say, wealthy individuals pledging thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars to the Democrat cause.
For reference to Democrats increasing the gap between the rich and the poor, again, will just give you the overview -
During the time of the Industrial Revolution, and a period of time I'd be willing to say likely lasted through the world wars, there was, I'm sure there will be not too much debate, a very large problem with business taking advantage of employees. In some parts of this country, that still goes on to a lesser extent, though happily there are no regions where there are a majority of people having to work 80-120 hour work weeks year-round, any more. To solve this problem, a good amount of worker protection laws were put into place.
In the decades since, more and different problems have continued to arise in the arena of employee relations and compensation. Through it all, the Democrats have continued mainly with the same type of legislation. Strengthening union power, decreasing employer power, more and more regulation, raising the minimum wage - on and on and on. The simple assumptions being - if it worked on the old problems, it should work on the new problems. The main flaw being that the world had changed, and blindly doing the same thing over and over was no longer *fixing* the problems, but making them worse.
For instance, you can see this in rising minimum wages. The lowest level of uneducated workers would get more money in wages... bringing them up to the level of minimally educated workers. Then the lowest and minimally educated workers were bumped up some more, bringing them to the level of educated workers. This essentially 'clustered' everyone into a 'class' of workers at the bottom, since the government was now declaring, 'this is what people need to make.' This higher cost of production, along with the clustering of employees, had the result of raising the price of goods - thus resulting in no increase in *buying power* for the workers whose salaries had been increased. Quite the opposite, often this resulted in a *decrease* in buying power for those workers whose salaries had increased, not to mention a more severe decrease in buying power for those workers whose salaries had not changed. Meanwhile, jobs moved out of the areas with an artificially inflated wage level and cost of living, making the situation further exacerbated - now, all the 'clustered' employees got to fight for a reduced number of jobs.