Who is David Leonhardt and should he give me due credit: Kwisatz Haderach edition

In my Sunday night redeye to home post ("Fuck you this is Obama's America: healthcare legislation and Duke Atriedes edition") I detailed, once again, why Reaganomics can never work and how it had made the vast majority of Americans worse off and a minority of Americans much much better off. I discussed how the new healthcare legislation was part of a larger, very painful struggle of restoring wealth equality, or, at least, putting the brakes on the 30-year growth of the inequality gap.

No need to thank me. This is what I am here for.

So what do I see at the top of the home page of today's New York Times? Pretty much exactly what I said. Why do you continue to not simply accept what I say!

From a Mr David Leonhardt:

For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.

Over most of that period, government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasing inequality. The pretax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor.

Oh, and let me remind you of the power of the Kwisatz Haderach for those who've not read Frank Herbert's Dune:

He has: "organic mental powers (that can) bridge space and time."