First European Interactiv Media http://en.europeus.org/politics/ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:27:00 +0200 blogSpirit.com All Rights Reserved http://en.europeus.org/archive/2006/09/02/yo-yo-blair.html http://en.europeus.org/archive/2006/09/02/yo-yo-blair.html noreply@europeus.org (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) POLITICS UK Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:30:00 +0200 <img src="http://en.europeus.org/images/thumb_CHERRY_PICKING.5.jpg" alt="medium_CHERRY_PICKING.5.jpg" style="border-width: 0; float: left; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0;" />(By GEORGE IRVIN / Source: EU Observer) President Bush's ‘Yo Tony'off-the-record humiliation of Blair elicited much mirth in the UK press where the incident was widely interpreted as emblematic of the British prime minister's subservience to Washington's neo-conservative agenda. How far that agenda encompasses the distribution of income is illustrated in a recent book by Jared Bernstein, a Washington based economist, who documents the growing inequalities of wealth and income in the US. Bernstein has coined the phrase ‘Yo-Yo economy' to describe conservative America's attitude towards its growing army of poor people: Today, ‘Yo-Yo' means ‘you're on your own'.