All this talk about income inequality is nonsense. It comes right out of the liberal playbook.
Before World War II there was no middle class. There were poor - really poor and there were rich - really rich. And the poor barely had enough to eat.
They didn’t have welfare, food stamps and Section 8 housing. If people couldn’t feed themselves they became servants to get a roof over their head or they went to the poorhouse. A very small percentage of the population were middle class. Just look at the pictures of the soup lines. Look at their clothes. Look how thin they were.
This income inequality concept is the basis on which income distribution rests.
You're talking about the 30's? This was at the peak of the depression.
Americans before that had been climbing the ladder like crazy and the middle class was expanded because all kinds of industries had taken off. FDR and Obama had the same philosophy: kill off the middle class so the poor can not feel so bad about themselves. The poor is where Obama's main voter base lies so jealousy among the poor toward the middle class keeps him in office. Thus, stoking it has always been in Obama's best interest.