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kenny blankenship

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3. But ain't it grand how many people can get rich here?

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 10:21 PM

Nov 2013

And have you seen the stock market lately? Why, if it wasn't for that perpetually paying off piggy bank cum slot machine -and the free Bernanke Buxx we launder through it- people like me would have to go out and earn an honest living! Most of us wouldn't know where to start, even if we hadn't made it virtually impossible through a full generation of stagnant wages, offshored manufacturing and regressive taxation on the working class.

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The 40 Year Slump: The Decline Of The American Job [View all] onehandle Nov 2013 OP

Now that's a graphic that warrants reposting... woo me with science Nov 2013 #1

Talk about living the dream... Blus4u Nov 2013 #2

But ain't it grand how many people can get rich here? kenny blankenship Nov 2013 #3

so, how much made-in-china stuff is in the houses of DUers? nt msongs Nov 2013 #4

You only get away from it if you live in a hole dug in a piece jtuck004 Nov 2013 #6

the REAL question is FirstLight Nov 2013 #5

Sure there is. 1954, a priest in Spain, under a dictatorship jtuck004 Nov 2013 #8

we haven't gotten enough neoliberals into office to defeat the further right! MisterP Nov 2013 #9

Where have all the wages gone? moondust Nov 2013 #7

But the big question is what can we do about it? Kablooie Nov 2013 #10

Great post! Wonderful charts. nt Mojorabbit Nov 2013 #11

Those graphs should go viral in a HUGE way! k&r polichick Nov 2013 #12