http://bopl.samharris.us/2005/04/jobful-recovery/ It's not all caviar and baby wipes, mate Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bopl.samharris.us/2005/04/jobful-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-528 Colonel Nikolai Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:31:00 +0000 http://www.bopl.samharris.us/wp/?p=264#comment-528 Alos today's New York Times carries an article "Falling Fortunes of Wage Earners" noting that "Even though the economy added 2.2 million jobs in 2004 and produced strong growth in corporate profits, wages for the average worker fell for the year, after adjusting for inflation - the first such drop in nearly a decade." Alos today’s New York Times carries an article “Falling Fortunes of Wage Earners” noting that “Even though the economy added 2.2 million jobs in 2004 and produced strong growth in corporate profits, wages for the average worker fell for the year, after adjusting for inflation – the first such drop in nearly a decade.”

]]> http://bopl.samharris.us/2005/04/jobful-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Colonel Nikolai Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:20:00 +0000 http://www.bopl.samharris.us/wp/?p=264#comment-527 The Bureau of Labor Statistics site lets you look at ALL the numbers yourself. You can even download them and do your own analysis. When I did this a couple of times a while ago, the outlook was pretty dark in my mind: there seems to be a long term trend of a "third-worldization" of our economy. The future of America is, frankly, to become a country like China. With some people doing very well, sure. But mostly comprising of docile, uneducated and desperate citizens willing to take it up the *** by an increasingly captive and draconian government and their masters: the foreign financial community. Which is only logical from a leftist, statist government like the Bush / NeoCon one we have now (yup, you read that right: I did say leftist). If there is one dirty secret is that our national blueprint winks at latter-day Chinese Communism where George is the ultimate Manchurian Candidate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics site lets you look at ALL the numbers yourself. You can even download them and do your own analysis. When I did this a couple of times a while ago, the outlook was pretty dark in my mind: there seems to be a long term trend of a “third-worldization” of our economy. The future of America is, frankly, to become a country like China. With some people doing very well, sure. But mostly comprising of docile, uneducated and desperate citizens willing to take it up the *** by an increasingly captive and draconian government and their masters: the foreign financial community. Which is only logical from a leftist, statist government like the Bush / NeoCon one we have now (yup, you read that right: I did say leftist). If there is one dirty secret is that our national blueprint winks at latter-day Chinese Communism where George is the ultimate Manchurian Candidate.

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