[RLK]

All that adds up to a horrific decline in productivity.

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Whit is occurring is that the U. S. is slowly drifting into economic irrelevancy.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Actually, the US has posted AMAZING productivity gains over the past 10 years, but I suppose those are all a fiction of some government accountants imagination.

[Mortimer Snavely]

We make the best burgers in the world, have the best professional athletes, the most popular pop stars, and are the world's best manipulators of digits and decimal points to prove that things just couldn't be better.