On 10-Sep-2010, "Califbill" wrote:

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.

2 out of 310 million people grasp reality.