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Selatius

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11. I like how nobody in power says most of the jobs created pay shit for wages.

Reply to OhioChick (Original post)

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 03:42 AM

Mar 2013

If it is taking the economy so long to recover, it may eventually occur to the people up top that the reason is because those jobs don't offer a lot of money to spend, and spending is what keeps an economy afloat.

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Low-wage workers are gloomy about future, survey shows [View all] OhioChick Mar 2013 OP

Does anybody have a link to that poll that shows TrollBuster9090 Mar 2013 #1

I am so very surprised to hear that. pennylane100 Mar 2013 #6

I agree with what you said, but sadly it's a fact. Here's Chris Hayes discussing it on UP TrollBuster9090 Mar 2013 #9

They had to do a survey to determine this? liberal N proud Mar 2013 #2

"Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die." jtuck004 Mar 2013 #3

Which is exactly what the PTB want Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #4

NS, S. WinkyDink Mar 2013 #5

I'm shocked. Just shocked, I tell you. Brigid Mar 2013 #7

Being a low-wage worker has sucked since the day money was invented slackmaster Mar 2013 #8

In other news, emmadoggy Mar 2013 #10

I like how nobody in power says most of the jobs created pay shit for wages. Selatius Mar 2013 #11

The greedy create the needy . olddots Mar 2013 #12

Oh this is just wrong. The economy is BOOMING! Things are great. Safetykitten Mar 2013 #13