Amerika the Damned: Eight Years to Flush (Repost due to flagging)

Thanks db1er, you've confirmed the justice of my premise.

"From an August 2006 report in the New York Times - The median hourly wage for American workers has declined 2 percent since 2003, after factoring in inflation. The drop has been especially notable, economists say, because productivity — the amount that an average worker produces in an hour and the basic wellspring of a nation's living standards — has risen steadily over the same period.

As a result, wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share since the 1960's. UBS, the investment bank, recently described the current period as "the golden era of profitability.""

Interesting perspective....we are supposed to be the land of the free and home of the brave...yet so many do not live well. Many of us live pay check to pay check...but we have learned to survive...something to think about. Imagine what other countries think of us when they see the homeless and the crime and the less fortunate that our media tends to focus on...huh?

Well the truth hurts! Kudos for your article!!!

A 10 You can tell when you struck a cord, by the DBs and flaggings by the Cowardly Troll. This is an excellent write.

Uplifting Thanksgiving message.

Originally wasn't a Thanksgiving message at all, but due to a cowardly flagger...........

I hope you're right about people being upset. I see too much complacency here.

I am sorry I cannot expose all the stuff I did yesterday again. Not enough time I am afraid. I am glad though that I love America. And the America I live in is a great place where people are happy and making their dreams come true.

This got flagged? For what? You should be allowed to give your opinion, others don't have to agree with it!

I'm sure you do, Publicless, seeing as how you live in an elitist cacoon. You don't have to face the results of your heroes policies on a daily basis, and so you can sleep at night, look at yourself in the mirror, and live the good life without worry. Others in this country don't have the luxery of any of that. In recent Agriculture dept surveys 12.1% of random respondents admitted to have, at some point over the last year, to have not had enough to be able to eat, to have gone hungry. that equates to 35.5 million people. There's no excuse for that in my world, but in yours, as long as it's out of sight, everything's grand. Time magazine reports that real incomes for 99% of American taxpayers have been nearly flat since 1980. Income for the top 1% has increased 177% to an average of $1.1 million. Income for the top .01%,has increased 408%, an average of $26.3 million. Yes, it's a wonderful country, if you're rich. It will be a wonderful country again, but not under Republicans, and especially not under Neocons. Thanks to David McGill (the contrarian)for the poverty and other statistics from his article:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977183041

don't agree with it but I cannot see why it would have been flagged...