"bpuharic" wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 02:04:29 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:




Productivity and profit are the goals (your wages are YOUR profit) but
they're undermined by the slime you've elected. No more handouts due to
bankruptcy, no more core industries, no more jobs. Handouts WHICH CAME
FROM
YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE cannot make you whole, and are making you broke.

productivity went up 30% between 1997 and 2007. the middle class saw
none of this in increased wages while the rich got richer.

Overall productivity went down. Productivity per hour worked may have
increased, via automation, etc. But production went down. Why we have a
large segment unemployed, and imports cause a huge trade deficit. Rich got
richer from siding with government that they purchased via Congress people
and Presidents. Most of those who got richer were not in the production of
real goods arena.