[Jorge]

Let me see if I've got this straight;

According to you, if we subtract Govt workers and those groups of workers you think get paid too much from the equation, we can alter the stats that show wages are steadily increasing for American workers and support your claim that everybody is really suffering.

The contortions in logic some people are willing to go through to maintain their depressed outlook.....

[oceanview]

no, we are not "altering" the stats. we are simply selecting a different sample space from them.

if I'm trying to gauge the wage effects on private sector middle class workers, why do I want public school teachers in the dataset, or postal workers? or corporate executives?