Republicans have often denounced what they say is a squalid deal in which public-sector unions spend generously to elect allies to office and then those allies lavish generous wages and benefits on union members.
Most of the discussion has focused on labor market forces like falling blue-collar wages and lavish Wall Street pay.
Whether it's opposing an increase in the minimum wage, enacting lavish tax breaks for the rich and powerful or creating trade wars around the globe, hardly any of Trump's policies will help to lift up this demographic.
The war has been waged by the lavish corporate funding of pro-market thinktanks – the quiet subversion of some of those, like the King's Fund, that are still rather quaintly described as "independent" – and the deep penetration of the Department of Health and Labour's senior ranks.
The veteran Oscar-winning director will be on hand Thursday to sign copies of his new book, "The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir," before screenings of "Sorcrerer," the lavish 1977 remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Wages of Fear," and the controversial 1980 cop thriller "Cruising," starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop who infiltrates New York's gay leather-bar underworld.
Bankrolled by Vichai Raksriaksorn and his son Top, whose Thailand-based duty-free retail business bought the club from Milan Mandaric last August, Eriksson has lavished £10m on new players (not to mention the wages to attract Premier League players) since last season's 10th-placed finish.
On the Democratic side of that debate, President Obama last month blamed "you're-on-your-own economics" for allowing corporations to seek cheaper workers overseas, hold down wages at home, exploit consumers and fuel income inequality by lavishing compensation on top executives.
Wall Street's lavish year-end bonuses, roughly $12 billion last year, accounted for about 7percentt of all the wages paid in the city, according to the industry association.
Which side would Great Britain support during the Civil War? Foreman gives us an enormous cast of characters and a wealth of vivid description in her lavish examination of a second battle between North and South, the trans-Atlantic one waged for British hearts and minds.
