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appalachiablue

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4. Incredibly injust & awful. The stats, wow. From RR to now-

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:38 PM

Apr 2015

The US Middle Class, the largest the world has ever seen slipped to No. 2 last year for the first time. Canada is No. 1 now. Saw this in a brief NYT article in 2013 and not much in other media. Some people I know don't want to hear or believe it. Like the fact that half of the earth's animals disappeared in 40 years from 1970-2013, in only two news reports last year. Bill Maher mentioned it to little response.

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The Middle Class Is Worse Off Than You Think [View all] Purveyor Apr 2015 OP

Sorry. If you ended up at the bottom, you are not "middle class" anymore and merrily Apr 2015 #1

, blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #2

forty nine cents out of every dollar of profit generated inside the USA goes directly truedelphi Apr 2015 #3

Incredibly injust & awful. The stats, wow. From RR to now- appalachiablue Apr 2015 #4

In many ways, Canada is run much more sensibly than we are. truedelphi Apr 2015 #5

What Reagan & Co. started went wild in the Roaring 90s, buy-partisan as you say. The rule by appalachiablue Apr 2015 #6

very interesting statistic. Do you have a source, or link, so we can check it out in more detail? Bill USA Apr 2015 #7

The first fact you need toa ccept is that the Bank Bailouts truedelphi Apr 2015 #8

I was not questioning your veracity. I really did want to look into it. I am aware that the bank Bill USA Apr 2015 #9

I am still trying to find the actual citation. truedelphi Apr 2015 #10

actually it's just about like I think. And it will continue to get worse as long as Jamie dimon Doctor_J Apr 2015 #11

kick midnight Apr 2015 #12

Thanks for 'kicking'. It is good to know that the articles I post are read even though there is Purveyor Apr 2015 #13