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TampaAnimusVortex

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41. Indeed. Very few understand how money comes into the system...

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 01:21 PM

Mar 2016

The fed gives it to the bankers and finance industry first, then as it trickles across the economy, they get first use - and therefore less of an inflation hit, than say the lower levels of the economy. It's all by design...

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This is why so many Americans are angry at and frustrated with those with wealth and power [View all] YoungDemCA Mar 2016 OP

Helped along by establishments politics. Insanity. eom zalinda Mar 2016 #1

Indeed. Very few understand how money comes into the system... TampaAnimusVortex Mar 2016 #41

Let me add a few... JHB Mar 2016 #2

As a younger voter I really get it astrophuss42 Mar 2016 #3

You just want free stuff and fluffy unicorns. (sarcasm icon here) n/t sarge43 Mar 2016 #4

Hillary never got any free stuff. snort Mar 2016 #27

Not to worry ... KPN Mar 2016 #5

Ha! SammyWinstonJack Mar 2016 #9

If by fix you mean.... daleanime Mar 2016 #17

Nailed it. highoverheadspace Mar 2016 #6

Oh... SoapBox Mar 2016 #7

Very well said. zentrum Mar 2016 #14

Wow. Perfect! virgista Mar 2016 #16

agreed!!! ellennelle Mar 2016 #25

Perfect response. eom Duval Mar 2016 #36

K & R . . . explained here . . . . HughBeaumont Mar 2016 #8

Ben Carson. snort Mar 2016 #30

Precisely! JDPriestly Mar 2016 #55

That is the basics and a political system that is bought and jwirr Mar 2016 #10

Another problem is both gentry GOPers and gentry Dem look down upon workers LettuceSea Mar 2016 #11

squeezing more out of use for less money. nt Javaman Mar 2016 #12

There it is Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2016 #13

People are slow to get over treestar Mar 2016 #15

Guilt is not the reason our wages have been stagnant for 35 years, that is called Blaming The Victim Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #18

not the whole time. "with the exception of a period of strong across-the-board wage growth" Amimnoch Mar 2016 #19

My family's wages did not go up during that time. Some wages went up, many did NOT! Many Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #21

So you are saying the article as cited is false? Amimnoch Mar 2016 #23

No, I'm saying my wages nor my spouses wages have gone up since the 1980s, blue collar. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #51

That does seem to be the only period since 1980 when real wages for manufacturing workers increased. pampango Mar 2016 #24

Not so much who was president as what was happening. JoeyT Mar 2016 #69

When Greenspan ran the Fed ... aggiesal Mar 2016 #28

+1,000,000 HughBeaumont Mar 2016 #38

^^^ marions ghost Mar 2016 #46

Not sure I agree because you talk to most people treestar Mar 2016 #50

OMG my husband does more in one day than all the workers in his shop, then he comes home and Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #52

This right here^. malokvale77 Mar 2016 #54

No I do not, geez I was merely commenting on why average mass of Americans treestar Mar 2016 #58

I don't just claim my husband works hard, I avow that he works his ass off. Discussing American Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #60

Stop accusing me of victim blaming treestar Mar 2016 #71

"58. No I do not, geez I was merely commenting on why average mass of Americans allows this Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #74

It appears Bernie supporters are just wiser to the long con going on than Hillary sheeple, like you! FighttheFuture Mar 2016 #62

but then how are you going to get votes from all us inferior people? treestar Mar 2016 #70

I present information like anyone else here. Keep in mind the real decline in the last 35 FighttheFuture Mar 2016 #73

Yet the basis of productivity has shifted whatthehey Mar 2016 #20

Bernie Is The Only Antidote cantbeserious Mar 2016 #22

when the people below them are hurting marions ghost Mar 2016 #26

There seems to be a direct correlation Cryptoad Mar 2016 #29

I don't really know what Hillary's plan is to fix this. Loudestlib Mar 2016 #43

my name is not Hillary,,,,,, Cryptoad Mar 2016 #48

Ahhhh I see Loudestlib Mar 2016 #49

You are so right. This place is going to be as boring and useless as anything once we JDPriestly Mar 2016 #56

Thomas Frank puts this into words Cassidy Mar 2016 #31

maybe that explains why I am not hfojvt Mar 2016 #32

In 1990 I started at job xloadiex Mar 2016 #33

actually it is a big decrease hfojvt Mar 2016 #39

Lower 90% are not represented in government. chknltl Mar 2016 #34

I've heard the goal of Republicans is to lower the minimum wage to $3.50 an hour. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #35

That's an awesome idea if one's an asshat who cares nothing about an economic future. HughBeaumont Mar 2016 #42

I'm more of this camp.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #45

Me like ^this^. chwaliszewski Mar 2016 #66

Meanwhile in Rural America Ducksworthy Mar 2016 #37

We will get our representation, somehow, some day. Smart folks in the Dem Party should take notice. highprincipleswork Mar 2016 #40

Keep acting like this started in 1979. Indydem Mar 2016 #44

A coincidence? creatives4innovation Mar 2016 #59

Remember when they claimed the Alaska Pipeline would eliminate Middle East oil dependency? Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #67

Payback for the New Deal.. freebrew Mar 2016 #72

The super rich do not create US jobs. Brother_Love Mar 2016 #47

K & R MoreGOPoop Mar 2016 #53

when bringing this up to republican friends PatrynXX Mar 2016 #57

Kick and R BeanMusical Mar 2016 #61

finally I see what trickled down! Wages! CarrieLynne Mar 2016 #63

WHY REAGAN KILLED THE UNIONS FOR CRAPITALISM. off shoring is a GOOD THING FOR pansypoo53219 Mar 2016 #64

Democratic Leadership is hell bent on sending as many jobs to India and China and Mexico as possible whereisjustice Mar 2016 #65

We The People are becoming serfs again nikto Mar 2016 #68