On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:26:33 -0600, Canuck57
wrote:

On 21/07/2010 8:51 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:36:22 -0600,
wrote:
why not check the GINI coefficient? the US has the least social
mobility of 10 western democracies, except for the UK

Because many have lost the American way, trading it in for envy, greed
and entitlement -- which do not work.

more bull****. more proof you hate the middle class.

which is more logical: 100M middle class wage earners 'lost the
ameircan way' (whatever that means)

or that a small group of rich, greedy wall street managers simply
stole everything not nailed down?

answer: the finanical sector accounted for 40% of GDP in 2007. THAT
tells you it was WALL STREET, not MAIN street that's the problem



and those without raises? that's the ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...the-day-6.html

I actually don't entirely disagree with you in that being middle class
is now tougher than ever before. But I disagree with the reason.

Big fat corruptive government is the cause

corruption in the form of right wing greed which enables the richest
1% to have a 500% increase in income in 30 years...and then it sells
this as 'deregulation' and 'smaller govt'.

.. Track total government
revnue against wages...you will see government outsrips income. And you
can't keep having government grow like a cancer.

which has NOTHING to do with the fact the financial sector, NOT the
govt, destroyed the US economy

At some point, DC will go bankrupt. And Obama will have the dubious
honor of kicking DC past the tipping point.

and it was bush and his right wing buddies who laid the groundwork for
destroying the US economy