Most Senators today were born or became young adults in the 1940′s or 1950′s while income inequality was going down. If you look at Change in Income Inequality for Families: 1947-1998 Fig 1 or p60-191.pdf at Census.gov they have a graph showing income inequality went down from the start of statistics in the 1940′s to bottom out at the time of the 1965 Immigration Act and started up after 1968 and has gone up ever since.
Census Income home page:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income.html
Census Income Inequality Home Page:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/incineq/p60204.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/incomestats.html#incomeineq
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income05.html
Men’s median wages flattened in 1973 and in 2005 were below 1973. See p60-231.pdf page 18 or see p60-229.pdf graph page 14. Specter who sponsored S. 2611 was part of the group that could get married early, have kids, and still have a career. Now he is against the young people of today being able to do this.
The census gov charts show why young adults don’t get married and have kids, they are struggling against the H-1B immigration, amnesty, family reunification that Specter supports.
But Specter and most of the cosponsors rode the chart of income inequality from the time it was going down to the bottom of income inequality when they were starting out to the top where he is now on the top. He takes credit for the chart being his genius. That’s why they had it good and young people today don’t in their minds.
The lives of Specter and the 6 cosponsors are reviewed at the end of the article in terms of how they fit on the income inequality graph. Specter, McCain and Kennedy were born in the 1930′s and became young adults in the 1950′s while income inequality was falling. They could build careers and have families while still young. Two Senators, Hagel and Martinez were born in 1946. They became 21 in 1967. They had families and full careers as they timed the income inequality graph perfectly, low income inequality when they were young and rising while they got on top. Both became rich on this curve.
Lindsey Graham and Sam Brownback were born in the mid 1950′s. Graham had to start out as the curve was getting worse. He had to choose a career or family and chose career. He has never had children. Brownback solved this problem by marrying an heiress and has 5 children and a career. Brownback is running for president.
The Senators who voted for S. 2611 with amnesty and more legal immigration rode the same inequality curve. When they started out, inequality was at a bottom and they could get good paying summer jobs, go to college, and have kids right after college. They think their life is normal or their hard work. Many were in the Senate in the 1970′s when income inequality started to go up, and most were in by 1980. So they have been on top while income inequality went up, but in their minds, they worked their way up, because when they were starting out they were doing so at the time of low income equality, the bottom of the income inequality bowl graph.
So they feel morally superior and entitled to vote for immigration, because their success is their hard work. Lobbyists give them money in and out of office and they don’t realize at a gut level its for causing this bowl shape of the income inequality graph by immigration. They know it intellectually, but don’t accept it emotionally because they remember when they started out, there was low inequality and they could work themselves up and have families at the same time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._2611
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/senate/2/votes/157/
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:@@@P
S.2611
Title: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] (introduced 4/7/2006) Cosponsors (6)
Related Bills: H.R.4437, S.2454, S.2612
Latest Major Action: 5/25/2006 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 62 – 36. Record Vote Number: 157.
COSPONSORS(6), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] – 4/7/2006
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] – 4/7/2006
Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] – 4/7/2006
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] – 4/7/2006
Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] – 4/7/2006
Sen McCain, John [AZ] – 4/7/2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter 1930http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback 1956http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham 1955
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel Born 1946
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M_Kennedy 1932
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Martinez Born 1946
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain Born 1936
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter Born 1930
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-191.pdf
You may want to open the above pdf in another window and look at the income inequality graph. It is a bowl shape that goes down from the late 1940′s to bottom out from 1965 to 1968 and then heads back up. It splits into two indices and these reach the 1940′s level of income inequlity sometime between 1980 and 1985. Income inequality then rose to its current levels the most extreme. The bottom of the bowl is the 1965 Immigration Act. Despite the effect of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, income inequality was at its low from 1965 to 1968 for all time that they have statistics.All the bill sponsors and cosponsors benefited from the time period at the bottom of this bowl.
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Specter is the bill sponsor. He was born February 12, 1930 and 21 years later, in 1951, income inequality was headed down. That was when he was starting out as a young adult. Income inequality was falling rapidly in the early 1950′s. He could go to law school, get married, and have a family while he was a young adult and attribute all of that to his smarts and hard work.
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Edward M. Kennedy was born February 22, 1932 and he was 21 in 1953. Although rich, he could feel that he was part of a generation where income inequality was falling rapidly. He became a young adult and even became a Senator in 1962 while income inequality was falling faster than at any time in history. He was the one who stopped that and reversed it by the 1965 Immigration Act.John McCain was born August 29, 1936 and was 21 in 1957. This was while income inequality was falling rapidly. He started out as a young adult during that time of rising boats for all. He was able to get married during this time. He was in a prison camp from 1967–1973 while income inequality bottomed out. When he returned he would divorce his wife, marry a millionairess and launch his political career. He was helping Charles Keating in the early 1980′s during the S and L scandal and was a member of the Keating 5.”
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Melquíades Rafael “Mel” Martínez (born October 23, 1946) is a Cuban-born American politician,”. He started out as a lawyer in 1973 and built his practice for 25 years. He was 21 in 1967. The all time bottom in income inequality was 1968. He too could go to law school like Specter, get married, have a young family and build a legal career all as a young adult.”
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Charles Timothy “Chuck” Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002.” Hagel enjoyed the same opportunity that Mel Martinez had, to become 21 in 1967 one year before income inequality bottomed out in 1968. Hagel thus could build his life while income inequality was low and enjoy rising income inequality later when he was an investment banker and businessma in the 1980′s. He could build a fortune in the 1980′s as income inequality was going up from over 20 years of the action of the 1965 Immigration Act. Hagel wants to keep his business network of rich guys in the same sweet spot of when they were born together and doing well so they can hire each other’s kids and avoid the fate that young people who are not children of business moguls like Hagel have to face.
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“Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) ” “Graham graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia with a B.A. in Psychology in 1977 and from its school of law with a J.D. in 1981, and eventually entered private practice as a lawyer. He is a brother of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Graham has never married.” Graham unlike the others, could not build a career and have a family as a young adult. Graham is already illustrating the impact of the 1965 Immigration Act, its why he had to choose building a career or a family as a young adult. Graham chose to build a career, so he never had a family as a result.
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“Samuel Dale “Sam” Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20, 2007 he announced his intentions to seek the Republican Party‘s nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election.[1][2]““Brownback is married to the former Mary Stauffer, heiress[citation needed] to a Topeka, Kansas newspaper fortune. The couple are the parents of five children (three daughters and two sons; two of the children are adopted).”
So Brownback avoided Graham’s choice have a career or a family but not both, by marrying an heiress. So he could have both. But not those he governs. Brownback’s S. 2611 puts most Americans in the same boat as Lindsey Graham, if you want to build a career during this time of economic uncertainty, you have to defer marriage and children, maybe forever. For those making this choice, even becoming a US Senator may not be enough to reverse income inequality preventing them getting married and having kids when biology tells them to, as young adults.
==Reference Material
Table IE-6. Measures of Household Income Inequality: 1967 to 2001*
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Variance Mean
of the logarithmic Atkinson
log of deviation -----------------------
Year Gini income of income Theil e=0.25 e=0.50 e=0.75
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2001 0.466 1.007 0.515 0.413 0.098 0.189 0.282
2000 30/ 0.462 0.983 0.490 0.404 0.096 0.185 0.275
1970 0.394 0.805 0.370 0.271 0.068 0.138 0.214 1969 0.391 0.774 0.357 0.268 0.067 0.135 0.209 1968 0.388 0.779 0.356 0.273 0.067 0.135 0.208 1967 12/ 0.399 0.813 0.380 0.287 0.071 0.143 0.220
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http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ie1.html
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Table IE-1. Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion:
1967 to 2001 (Households as of March of the following year. Income in current
and 2001 CPI-U-RS adjusted dollars 28/)
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Measures of Income Dispersion 2001 2000 30/ 2000 29/ 1999
Household Income Ratios of
Selected Percentiles 95th/20th 8.38 8.10 8.11 8.26
95th/50th 3.57 3.46 3.46 3.48
80th/50th 1.98 1.95 1.95 1.94
80th/20th 4.65 4.56 4.56 4.62
20th/50th 0.43 0.43 0.43 0.42
Gini coefficient of
income inequality 0.466 0.462 0.460 0.457
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Measures of Income Dispersion 1970 1969 1968 1967 12/
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Household Income at
Selected Percentiles In Current Dollars:
20th percentile upper limit 3,687 3,574 3,323 3,000
50th (median) 8,734 8,389 7,743 7,143
80th percentile upper limit 14,661 13,900 12,688 11,841
95th percentile lower limit 23,178 21,800 19,850 19,000
In 2001 Dollars:
20th percentile upper limit 14,556 14,789 14,350 13,474
50th (median) 34,481 34,714 33,436 32,081
80th percentile upper limit 57,881 57,519 54,790 53,181
95th percentile lower limit 91,505 90,209 85,717 85,334
Household Income Ratios of
Selected Percentiles
95th/20th 6.29 6.10 5.97 6.33
95th/50th 2.65 2.60 2.56 2.66
80th/50th 1.68 1.66 1.64 1.66
80th/20th 3.98 3.89 3.82 3.95
20th/50th 0.42 0.43 0.43 0.42
Mean Household Income
of Quintiles
In Current Dollars
Lowest quintile 2,029 1,957 1,832 1,626
Second quintile 5,395 5,216 4,842 4,433
Third quintile 8,688 8,335 7,679 7,078
Fourth quintile 12,247 11,674 10,713 9,903
Highest quintile 21,684 20,520 18,762 17,946
In 2001 Dollars:
Lowest quintile 8,010 8,098 7,911 7,303
Second quintile 21,299 21,584 20,909 19,910
Third quintile 34,300 34,491 33,160 31,789
Fourth quintile 48,350 48,307 46,261 44,477
Highest quintile 85,607 84,913 81,019 80,601
Shares of Household Income
of Quintiles
Lowest quintile 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.0
Second quintile 10.8 10.9 11.1 10.8
Third quintile 17.4 17.5 17.5 17.3
Fourth quintile 24.5 24.5 24.4 24.2
Highest quintile 43.3 43.0 42.8 43.8
Gini coefficient of
income inequality 0.394 0.391 0.388 0.399
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/incineq/p60tb1.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/p60191.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ineqtoc.html
“income inequality” site:census.gov
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-2611
January 29, 2007
National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein
“Yes, Tyler, Income Inequality Is Real. And Immigration Is A Cause.” More on Rubenstein‘s ESR Research, which does statistical research.
Time to Rethink Immigration?
by Peter Brimelow
from National Review, June 22, 1992
Mr. Brimelow is Editor at VDARE.com.
Above is the famous Brimelow piece at National Review, when William F. Buckley was still for us on immigration restriction. William Kristol is now editor of National Review. Kristol, born in 1952, rode the income inequality wave and has pulled up the ladder on the generations that came after him.
The above was rewritten from a comment at Front Page Magazine on
The GOP’s Moment of Truth
By William Kristol
The Weekly Standard | February 13, 2007
William Kristol was born in 1952. He rode the same income inequality wave.
==Comment that was rewritten into above:
Kristol was born in 1952 while income inequality was going down. If you look at p60-191.pdf at Census.gov they have a graph showing income inequality went down from the start of statistics in the 1940′s to bottom out at the time of the 1965 Immigration Act and started up after 1968 and has gone up ever since.
Men’s median wages flattened in 1973 and in 2005 were below 1973. See p60-229.pdf graph page 14. Kristol was part of the group that could get married early, have kids, and still have a career. Now he is against the young people of today being able to do this.
The census gov charts show why young adults don’t get married and have kids, they are struggling against the H-1B immigration, amnesty, family reunification that Kristol supports.
But Kristol rode the chart of income inequality from the bottom of income inequality when he was starting out to the top where he is now on the top. So he is against us. He takes credit for the chart being his genius. That’s why he had it good and young people today don’t in his mind.
You can simply type in the names of the pdf files into google and those will give the link to the pdf files at the census site, you don’t have to hunt through it.
The Senators for S. 2611 with amnesty and more legal immigration rode the same inequality curve. When they started out, inequality was at a bottom and they could get good paying summer jobs, go to college, and have kids right after college. They think their life is normal or their hard work. Many were in the Senate in the 1970′s when income inequality started to go up, and most were in by 1980. So they have been on top while income inequality went up, but in their minds, they worked their way up, because when they were starting out they were doing so at the time of low income equality, the bottom of the income inequality bowl graph.
So they feel morally superior and entitled to vote for immigration, because their success is their hard work. Lobbyists give them money in and out of office and they don’t realize at a gut level its for causing this bowl shape of the income inequality graph by immigration. They know it intellectually, but don’t accept it emotionally because they remember when they started out, there was low inequality and they could work themselves up and have families at the same time.
==Comments at Vdare on this post
” The Senate: In an Income Time Warp?”
A large number of Americans appear to have realized that income inequality has increased and that massive immigration is substantially responsible. And they are increasingly willing to say so.
A frequently-expressed view of Peter Brimelow’s is that the current generation of political “leaders” was formed intellectually before immigration was discernable as a social problem. Quite possibly they will literally have to die off before public policy will change – people rarely have new ideas.
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Personally, though, I still think the more persuasive explanation is that these Senators are selfish, corrupt, and unAmerican.
Mr. Cleburne has some kind words for this column and this blogger, which I thank him for. I am only too well aware of the editing work needed for this blog and I thank my readers for putting up with it.
– Also
“What To Do With The Senate?” Randall Burns at Vdare.com
These are discussed further in this article.
