This Map Reveals Just How Unequal The So-Called Recovery Is

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69. I would think a Nodakian

would appreciate some "hot air"

And I seem to have provided actual stats and some reasoning which would lower the total participation rate.

No matter how much that red bar is higher than the yellow bar, the red bar for those over 55 and those over 65 - a percentage of the population that is growing, is STILL lower than the red bar for those under 55.

Why did I mention the title?

Well, because the OP said this, right at the top

"the rebound in income in the three years after the recession pretty much all went to the richest of the rich,"

and I said this

"consider the title

"all the gains of the recovery went to the top 1%""

So there I am, hitting reply and giving a mostly polite answer to your question. Once I hit reply, I can still see your post, but I cannot see the OP any more. I remembered that line from the OP, and thought it was part of the title. So I refudiated that part of the OP, which was pretty much the key argument, and happened to make the irrelevant mistake of thinking it was the title, rather than the second line of the OP.

My error was trivial, and irrelevant to the argument, although a person could, if they were a pissant, use it to try to score a point.

You seem to think that you cannot make your points without including a whole bunch of hostility, playing some sort of gotcha game. "Ah ha, you made a trivial error", and say things like "The things you write, your statistics, your opinion are nothing but "meaningless hot air"."

And there are 11 million jobs since the job nadir of the Bush recession. Regardless of how many jobs you, or some paid economist, think there should be, or how much those jobs should pay. The fact is that somebody who had no job in February of 2010 and now has a job, has gained from where they were in February of 2010.

That's pretty clear, and it's pretty obvious. Except for people who want to do a whole bunch of statistical mixing and sorting and graphing so they can cry about the legendary 1% and how we are all doomed.