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.
Once again, please demonstrate how a 1.8 percent increase in average salaries, coupled with a 2.2 percent rate of inflation, is a postive for working Americans. And, it IS relevant to differentiate government salaries from private-sector salaries - because WE pay for government salaries out of our taxes. So if government salaries went up, so did our tax burden. And the private sector drives economic growth.
So, once again, private sector salaries only went up .8 percent last year. Which means a net decline of 1.4 percent in purchasing power after inflation is factored in. Which means people are falling behind, dipweed. And that doesn't even factor in millions of unemployed.
I don't expect you to grasp this, I'm just revealing to the rest of the forum just how deranged you are willing to make your posts.