Posted on 03/07/2013 2:19:27 PM PST by lbryce
This guy in the picture, I see him once in a while, seems not to have much tolerance for important, long standing issues. :-)
I got a cheap-azz 2% raise this year. That does not even cover increases in health insurance premiums, not to mention inflation. I am BACKWARDS from where I was in March 2012.
I always tell people who bitch about their pay raises to go start their own companies. That way, they can give themselves all the raises they want.
I nearly fainted when I saw this was from Time Magazine online. Seriously.
Important, long standing issues? Such as the government doesn’t include food in its official inflation stats, except when the government includes food in its official inflation stats?
This is BEA data from the Fed's website:
"...Real personal disposable income fell by 4%, the biggest monthly drop in half a century..."
Right after a 4% surge over the previous 2 months.
Thanks to Obama and his cadre of Czars. But it was a change I expected and believed would happen when the Communists took over the government.
It clears up two misunderstandings in the leftwing Time article, the first being that Obama inherited the problem with incomes from Bush, and the other that somehow that 4% drop was anything other than a return to a general climb.
Reality is that incomes were fine until the disastrous policies since '09. Something else is that the drop we just had was simply a conformation that incomes haven't really shown a lot of progress with our glorious "recovery".
My hours have been cut and no overtime and higher taxes, higher food prices, higher gas prices. Yeah, I’m feeling poorer but that’s what Obama wants. And as we have seen for the last four years, Obama gets what Obama wants.
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