{"article":{"id":249538,"heading":"The One Percent Turns Class War into Generational War","author":"Dean Baker","created":"2011-11-09 12:55:29","modified":"2011-11-09 12:55:29","last_modified":"Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:55:29","article":"

Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

to read Dean Baker's article published in: www.truth-out.org, November 7, 2011, click on

http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/one-percent-turns-class-war-generational-war\/1320680738<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The cost of making social security solvent for 75 years amounts to 0.58% of the GDP. The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars amount to three times as much. The cost of transferring wealth to the top 1% over the past thirty years is 6% of the GDP or 10 times as much as social security cost.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/11\/249538.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}