[trebb]

First when looking at just pay as some of these articles do they ignore the role of health care cost inflation has played in suppressing take home pay and income. I am lucky if my marginal yearly pay increase compensate for increased health care premiums/costs.

I grew up in the '50s and '60s. Each and every year my Dad moved up the chain a little bit w/o big promotions, etc. Over a few decades, he went from struggling to being comparably awash in disposable income. Over the last 10 years, I have been lucky to maintain status. The Left calls this "progress".

Destroy the Middle Class and they will effectively destroy Freedom as we once knew it.

[jsanders2001]

0 is doing a great job of killing the Middlle class:

Caused small businesses to fail due to Obamacare, hidden increased taxation (increase payroll taxes and takeaway deductions

Created the price of everything to skyrocket (hyperinflation with calling it hyperinflation)

Created a higher unemployment rate (much higher than is stated by manipulating figures)

Wages are down due to full-time jobs being cut to part-time due to Obamacare; more pople are out of work creating higher demand and lower wages

Bringing illegals I to the country to (yes) take your jobs

Demoralized them with continued attacks against their religious beliefs, their patriotism, their ideologies

Forced people to kneel at the altar of faggotry and socialism

I’d say he’s doing a great job...

[palmer]

The bulk of production is overseas now. There is no way to stay prosperous as a country when we don’t build goods. Instead of encouraging saving which leads to small business creation, the Fed (and lots of others) promote spending and consumption. Ironically the point to the large percentage of the economy based on consumption not realizing that it is a weakness! One likely factor in your dad’s eventual wealth was a saving and investing culture when he was starting out.