Why David Brooks Is Totally Wrong About Income Inequality and the 99%

(...and you thought this guy crashed and burned with Bush, eh?)

Brooks' latest tries to dismiss the conflict between the 99% and the 1% -- here's why he gets it wrong.

November 4, 2011

When I saw that the most-emailed article at the New York Times a couple of days ago was a David Brooks piece titled “The Wrong Inequality,” my heart sank a little. After I read the article, in which Brooks claims that the focus on “blue state” inequality between the super-elite and the rest has crowded out discussion of “red state” inequality between people who have and haven’t graduated from college, my heart sank a little more.

Brooks is peddling a premise—that differing levels of education are the cause of the most important inequalities in America today— that threatens to give ammunition to those who would seek to weaken the power of the 99 percent.READ MORE