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appalachiablue

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

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 04:32 PM

Apr 2015

banks, esp. Goldman alums for 25 years is criminal. There's a special place in purgatory for corps. like Amazon with their monopolistic control of so much media and strong anti-union management. Bezos the Texas libertarian recently bought the Washington Post for a song, one the many vaunted New Gilded Age Tech Barons. I'm encouraging a couple beautiful young family millennials to consider Canada, even with Harper's imitating RR over the oil boom it can't be as bad as matters seem here, sorry to say and unless and until there's change...Lol.

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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