Greed is so awesome!

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Look what it has done for America!

From the AP:

The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder.

What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner.

Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher rent, food and energy bills. It's starting to affect middle-income working families as well as the poor, and has reached the point of affecting day-to-day calculations of merchants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 7-Eleven Inc. and Family Dollar Stores Inc.

Because that's what the story should devolve into - CORPORATE CONCERNS. Screw poor Americans - let's worry about the corporations and how they are faring. The story see-saws back and forth, and seems to use the plight of poor Americans to prop up corporate strategies as they adjust to a poorer American consumer.

Greed is so fucking awesome.

Isn't it?