1. Standard of living
2. Wages
3. Income less government benefits
4. Hours worked
What I'd really like to see is a comparison chart of people who are deriving the majority of their income from employment vs. those deriving their income from government benefits. Maybe it will smack the American people in the face when they say how we are approaching a situation where every worker is supporting a non-family non-worker.
Republicans have so much material to use in this coming election, if they have the cojones and the savvy to do it. They should already be working on ads showing Ayers making his comments about the collapse of America as a world power, and caption his statements as - “A guy from Obama’s neighborhood, in whose living room Obama launched his political career, thinks that America is declining. Is this what you voted for? Don't your children deserve better?”.
We were being used as slaves by 48% of the population BEFORE noboma stepped foot in the White House. 50% of our wages were being stolen from us through some kid of tax or government fee.
This is why we no longer write the government a check every April 15Th. People aren't suppose to notice. The slow drip, drip of payroll deductions hides what's really being done to us.
Slavery never ended in this country. The only thing that changed was the target group.
We just hit a record high of people no longer in the work force - 88.4 million. Add that to the parasites that were already feeding from the public teat, and we're paying for way more than one extra family each.
I agree.