Replies to post #493105 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

HHmmm. 1980-2011 you say? All the Dems fault you say? Should we break it down even further and see who controlled congress in those years as well, or can I let you do that for yourself to save you even further humiliation?

1981-1989 Ronald Reagan Nancy Reagan George H. W. Bush
1989-1993 George H. W. Bush Barbara Bush Dan Quayle
1993-2001 Bill Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Albert Gore
2001-2009 George W. Bush Laura Bush Richard Cheney
(also note the two times the chart moved upward from about '95 to '01 and that spike at the end)
2009-2017 Barack Obama Michelle Obama Joseph R. Biden

I'm afraid this one missed the mark again. Better luck next time. Fancy chart, though it completely disproves your premise. Maybe in your next post you can explain all the virtues of "trickle down economics"?

[longrider51]

B402, here is the link for your failure to do so for your truncated charts... why, I wonder? Because you're making the direct inference this has to do with Springfield, OH in particular, but credit for your "not so unlike" qualifier. The point of the COMPLETE set of charts has to do with the continued income inequality and divergence that is evident in the OVERALL economy.

https://ritholtz.com/2011/09/great-prosperity-1947-1977-vs-great-regression-1981-present/

[janice shell]

Although their population is now up again, its full of cheap undereducated labor..

Well hey. Dropping out of high school is a CHOICE. Perhaps if most Americans valued education more than they do--if they were more like people in, say, Germany and Japan, and encouraged kids to take learning seriously--we wouldn't have this problem with undereducated people who vote for unintelligent people like Trump. People who encourage their ignorance, because that wins them votes.

...and the full impact is being felt now as inequity is past that of the quilted age and the inflation is bringing us to the breaking point....

Did you perchance mean the "Gilded Age"? That would be the 1890s. In 1890, the inflation rate was -109%, for whatever that's worth.

https://www.officialdata.org/1865-dollars-in-1890?amount=50#:~:text=The%20inflation%20rate%20in%201890,year%20between%201890%20and%202024.