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In reply to the discussion: Sanders blasts Fed over interest rate hike [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)if there was anything else except your opinion (which, based on my cursory examination of your postings it seems you value above that of anyone or anything else) to back that assertion up.
Yes, I think President Sanders is our only hope, and keeping it low helps mostly the very wealthy. Opposing it being raised helps the opponents of economic equality. Needs to be equalized and tens of trillions invested in the people and the country, and we need conversations about how we can go forward in an economy where we don't have half a world to blow up and profit from rebuilding.
"The struggles of the poor in the United States are even starker than those of the middle class. A family at the 20th percentile of the income distribution in this country makes significantly less money than a similar family in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland or the Netherlands. Thirty-five years ago, the reverse was true."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?_r=0
That's just one, but there are years of this shit.
It's nothing but status quo, and that isn't working for a growing number of people here . More like being showered with greasy, wormy, fatty scraps.