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Mr. Tom Harris’ and Dr. Jay Lehr’s assert that America has “an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem and it is spreading like a plague.” Dr. Lehr and Mr. Harris are correct but not in the manner they think.
While the average income of Americans has risen, it hides the fact recent gains have going almost entirely to the wealthy leaving the rest behind. In the United States, the income gap between the rich and everyone else has been growing markedly, by every major statistical measure, for more than 30 years. https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/
The extremely wealthy have benefited disproportionately in recent decades. President Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy have blown a massive hole is the federal budget. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/11/07/trump-tax-cuts-hiked-deficit-republicans-want-more-editorials-debates/4168022002/
Mr. Harris’ and Dr. Lehr’s assertion that the “…millennial generation and younger have only seen prosperity with no contrast to life elsewhere or earlier in this nation” is not supported by the facts. Millennials entered the workforce during or in the wake of the Great Recession. Among Millennial college graduates, unemployment and underemployment, at 8.8 percent and 18.3 percent respectively, are historically high compared with the same age cohort in prior generations, and wages for employed Millennials have dropped 7.6 percent since the onset of the Great Recession.(Sources Patricia Reany, “Youth employment: Recent U.S. college graduates disillusioned, underemployed says poll,” Huffington Post, April 30, 2013, Heidi Shierholz, Natalie Sabadish, and Hilary Wething, The class of 2012 labor market for young graduates remains grim, Economic Policy Institute, May 3, 2012)
High unemployment levels and low wages are making it difficult for many Millennials to make even minimal payments on their record-high amounts of student loan debt. At present, loan default rates are approaching historic highs, damaging Millennial credit scores along the way. (Source Natalie Sabadish, and Hilary Wething, The class of 2012 labor market for young graduates remains grim, Economic Policy Institute, May 3, 2012)
This Disqus profile – https://disqus.com/by/disqus_JzQ88MTX2I/following/ – shows that since March 31, 2016, Mr. James has made 4,180 comments. Here is a sample of some of his many, many posts apparently trying to discredit my writings in online article comment sections: https://www.google.ca/search?site=&source=hp&q=%22Tom+Harris%22+%22Dave+James%22&gws_rd=cr&ei=nyGDWefuDavcjwSb-oK4DA . I already explained to Mr. James that many of his points are either wrong or misleading . I will not waste any more time explaining this to him, unless other people bring up the same or similar questions.
Tom Harris is mistaken. Mr. Harris’ credibility is determined by his words not mine. Mr. Harris is being less than honest when he vaguely asserts he has address my criticisms of his opinion piece somewhere else. Mr. Harris refusal to discuss his opinion piece shows a lack of confidence in the content of his arguments. Mr. Harris dodges because he understands that his ideas don’t do stand-up well when exposed to open and honest debate.