How defensive they are! One thing this piece proves is that the criticism re income distribution is biting. And their only response is cutting rhetoric and bombast.

Two elements:

1. Ask people to recall subjective sensations of their standard of living in 1979. Just before miracle-worker Ronnie, of course, and a time of economic difficulty (see oil price shocks and inflation). Don't give any hard data or talk about real wages at all. Just take people for fools.

2. Repeat the Bell Curve mantra about the reasons for poverty being cultural and moral. The basis of which is the Protestant work ethic rather than Social Darwinism. This is red meat for conservatives, and it isn't going to qualify for anything more than that.

In other words, try out what spin they can come up with against the growing understanding that "growth" is all going to the wealthy. And it's actually encouraging to see that their spin is pathetic.