[dirtboy]

Your spin is getting a bit out of control. You haven't shown that national average salaries are decreasing.

Adjusted for inflation, they did just that. Take out governmental jobs, and average salaries after inflation went down about 1.4 percent. That ain't spin. That's the ground truth.

All that you've done is to show that a single technical field had a 3% decline.

Try 4.8 percent - BEFORE inflation. And that is ALL of information processing - once touted as the future of the American economy. But you downplay it - again.

You're really getting more and more contemptable by the minute. Decent folks who support Bush would NEVER go this far to downplay the suffering that millions are facing in this country. But all you can pretend is that down is somehow up.

[Southack]

"Adjusted for inflation, they did just that. Take out governmental jobs, and average salaries after inflation went down about 1.4 percent. That ain't spin. That's the ground truth."

You're beginning to sound like those government employees who claim that a decline in the rate of their budget increases is a "cut".

Average national salaries went UP. Did they go UP as fast as everyone would like? No. But going UP is certainly better than going down.