[ETERNAL WARMING]

I guess I'm just an America Firster as this is my country and it's sad to see it deteriorate so.

So am I DB. Despite the rhetoric, the fact remains that half of all American workers now pay into the lowest tax bracket. That stat doesn't lie. It means people are trying to survive with minimum wage jobs, no benies. It means they have no disposable income to regenerate the economy. It means that the idiots are killing off their market faster than they're developing new ones. And that means there will be a severe worldwide collapse ahead.

[Torie]

You said:

Despite the rhetoric, the fact remains that half of all American workers now pay into the lowest tax bracket. That stat doesn't lie. It means people are trying to survive with minimum wage jobs, no benies. It means they have no disposable income to regenerate the economy

And then we have this table of median family income (that is median, not mean, which means that half are above the number, and half below), in real dollars, and that is with the CPI overstating what is the real inflation rate. Do facts matter at all anymore?

You are right about one thing though. Federal income taxes have been reduced substantially on families that earn below the median income. Does that upset you?

[DBtoo]

Another thing is housing costs have NOT gone down along with the drop in jobs and salaries. I wonder how young, single women in particular can afford to rent an apartment anymore. I guess they need to find several roomates.

Gee, I keep coming up with similarities to the old Soviet Union way of life.

[FITZ]

It means people are trying to survive with minimum wage jobs, no benies.

What makes no sense about this goal of bringing so many wages down to $5.15 an hour is that then they qualify for food stamps, CHIPS and many other welfare benefits. What's they point of having more and more families half on welfare but working? That's not self-sufficiency.