On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:27:40 -0400, Larry wrote:

bpuharic wrote:


Then there are those, such as Paul Krugman, The New York Times
columnist and Nobel prize winner, who blame it on politics, notably
the conservative backlash which began when Ronald Reagan came to power
in 1980, and which sped up the decline of unions and reversed the most
progressive features of the US tax system.

Fewer than a tenth of American private sector workers now belong to a
union. People in Europe and Canada are subjected to the same forces of
globalisation and technology. But they belong to unions in larger
numbers and their healthcare is publicly funded. More than half of
household bankruptcies in the US are caused by a serious *illness or
accident
---------------

middle class DECLINING in income

FEWER UNIONS

notice a pattern here? aided and abetted by right wing mythology about
the 'american dream' and the infallibility of the rich...


No raise is now 10% adjusted for inflation, liar? Treading water? They
must have been drowning 37 years ago without that 10% increase.

really? obviously you didnt read the chart.

but, then, being right wing i'm amazed you read anything but dr.
suess.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1a8a5cb2-9...44feab49a.html
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...the-day-6.html