Mm-hmmm….my SS check didn’t go up because inflation was flat, and my husband’s company didn’t offer raises for the same reason. Oh, and also because sales haven’t been so good. But his insurance went up, groceries and clothing is up and gasoline yo-yos all over the place. I don’t know where the people who make these decisions shop, but it’s not in my world.
^echoraven: retirees, going back to school, dropping that second job you don’t need any more, workforce participation rate is a straw dog, falsely used. The stock market is still well over 17,000 on the Dow, and “investors” are making huge profits on capital gains, paying low taxes (or none in the case of corporations like GE), and yes, the middle class is still getting screwed by right wingers and “capitalists”.(REAL Capitalism is a good thing btw, but our current feudal system Reagn started setting up, isn’t really regulated Capitalism.)
dogday Premium Member over 8 years ago
Mm-hmmm….my SS check didn’t go up because inflation was flat, and my husband’s company didn’t offer raises for the same reason. Oh, and also because sales haven’t been so good. But his insurance went up, groceries and clothing is up and gasoline yo-yos all over the place. I don’t know where the people who make these decisions shop, but it’s not in my world.
braindead Premium Member over 8 years ago
Yeah, Jeb’s brother kept the economy safe, too.
echoraven over 8 years ago
Workforce Participation Rate is still less today than the day Obama took office. So no it is not better.
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
^echoraven: retirees, going back to school, dropping that second job you don’t need any more, workforce participation rate is a straw dog, falsely used. The stock market is still well over 17,000 on the Dow, and “investors” are making huge profits on capital gains, paying low taxes (or none in the case of corporations like GE), and yes, the middle class is still getting screwed by right wingers and “capitalists”.(REAL Capitalism is a good thing btw, but our current feudal system Reagn started setting up, isn’t really regulated Capitalism.)