Morning Walk

I almost dug out my sweats for this morning's walk. It was a touch too chilly when I left the house, but I counted on it getting warmer in just another thirty minutes, and I won that bet, but I think I should play it safe as we roll into October. I also learned than Fernando Pessoa may not be the best book to take on a morning walk. A little too depressing. It is too clear a mirror for me. The life that goes nowhere, just spinning away in self-absorbed thought.

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Politics and Class

Adjusted for inflation, the income of the top 1 percent rose 31 percent from 2009 to 2012, but the real income of the bottom 40 percent actually fell 6 percent.

-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times

I am surprised that the numbers are not more extreme. Krugman drops this tidbit in a discussion about how the Republicans have been pushing hard to slash food stamps for the poor. That is how extreme our politics have been, with Republicans controlling the House. As Krugman concludes: "Even some conservative pundits worry that the war on food stamps, especially combined with the vote to increase farm subsidies, is bad for the G.O.P., because it makes Republicans look like meanspirited class warriors. Indeed it does. And that’s because they are."