[arrogantsob]

This shit just keeps getting funnier and funnier. Is it any wonder the US economy is screwed when even FReepers understand so little of how things are.

[hedgetrimmer]

We know that the transnational trash corporations have utterly corrupted our government and is actively looting our economy until there is nothing left. Sad to say we are almost there.

This economic collapse is due PRECISELY to 30 years of free traitors and free trade.

The lie is on the free traitors.

[expat_panama]

Is it any wonder the US economy is screwed when even FReepers understand so little of how things are.

Maybe the problem is thinking the New York Times is "Worth the read."

OK, it's good for finding out what the latest Marxist party line is, but these days anyone interested in 'how things are' with corporate finance can check the BEA directly and find out that for years going into the recession profits fell while pay increased.

I'm trying to remember the 2008 NYT headline "Profits are tanking, Why Aren't Jobs?"  There wasn't one, and the bottom line here is that mean old corporations pay six bucks in employee comp. for ever dollar proft, and when profits tank pay doesn't.