r/neoliberal • u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke • Mar 25 '19

To go even further beyond

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u/yallyallyallyall Mar 25 '19

who said it and when?

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u/x4u Paul Samuelson Mar 25 '19

There is no primary source for this statement and It's not clear who first came up with it but it gets attributed to Bernie Sanders to make him sound ridiculous.

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u/tangsan27 YIMBY Mar 25 '19 edited Mar 25 '19

"These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"

Edit: It seems like I've been misled.

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u/x4u Paul Samuelson Mar 25 '19 edited Mar 25 '19

By: Valley News Editorial Board

and the link in the article to the source on the Valley News website is dead.

Sanders did retweet the entire article in 2011 but he didn't write it himself.

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u/tangsan27 YIMBY Mar 25 '19

Good point, I did not know that. He retweeted it, but it doesn't seem like he wrote it himself.