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whatthehey

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7. That's why they show it in constant dollars, and all the data belie your claim
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 12:36 PM
Jun 2016

It's the same tired doomer flowchart crap:

There are no jobs!

Look at the data on job gains...

Well thery're all crap jobs then!

Look at the data on median pay gains...

Well it's all inflation then!

Look at the constant dollar scale data...

It's all fake to make Obama look goood then!

Sure a seamlesss conspiracy of thousands of civil servants of all political stripes, after several years of making the same guy look bad as the same data collected the same way declined. Mmmkay...

Everybody's working multiple jobs to barely survive and that inflqates the numbers then!

That's 4.9% of the population, a number declining very slowly since the 90s and unaffected by recessions or boom times

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/07/art3full.pdf
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat36.htm

Well you're ignoring the millions who are struggling and pretending everything is perfect then!

No, improving (supported by data) and perfect (a silly strawman) are not synonymous. Millions are certainly struggling, and yet millions also are not. It's not the 1% who are seeing consumer spending on durables go up at a record pace last month, or filling thousands of new sports bar franchises with 7$ beers and $10 wings.

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