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WillyT

(72,631 posts) Sat Aug 25, 2012, 08:01 PM Aug 2012

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Here's The Pew Article On The Worst Decade In Modern History... And Who The Respondents Blame... [View all]

The Lost Decade of the Middle Class
Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier

Link: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/22/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class/

Related Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021199834

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Here's The Pew Article On The Worst Decade In Modern History... And Who The Respondents Blame... [View all] WillyT Aug 2012 OP

Now if they had put the poor in there it would have been off the damn chart blame.. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #1

From The Links: WillyT Aug 2012 #2

What a great chart. I wish it went back to 1940 CabCurious Aug 2012 #4

That was not my point, I may have phrased it.. umm.. poorly. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #10

Agreed - certainly all the right-wingers blame the poor progree Aug 2012 #22

Why shouldn't the upper income make more than the middle income. Isn't that what upper income means? progree Aug 2012 #23

K&R. Adding this to my collection! CabCurious Aug 2012 #3

The middle class are to blame gulliver Aug 2012 #5

who bombarded the average middle class news consumer with the unending propaganda Gabi Hayes Aug 2012 #8

Sending lots of people to prison is remarkably bipartisan.. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #11

Tommy Chong: Biden Authored Bill that Put Him in Jail Gabi Hayes Aug 2012 #12

Du rec. Nt xchrom Aug 2012 #6

Hey X...Did You See This ??? WillyT Aug 2012 #7

thanks - i would have missed it - but i have DURECtified that. nt xchrom Aug 2012 #18

Holy crap! ProSense Aug 2012 #9

A few more charts CabCurious Aug 2012 #14

Meanwhile military spending is around $1.2 TRILLION a year CabCurious Aug 2012 #15

A great thread. Thanks to all. nt longship Aug 2012 #13

Kicking and bookmarking. Great thread!! madinmaryland Aug 2012 #16

Thanks !!! WillyT Aug 2012 #17

Do you blame the middle class people themselves? Quantess Aug 2012 #19

We can't blame Congress without blaming ourselves a little bit CabCurious Aug 2012 #20

True, I do also feel no group is COMPLETELY without blame... Quantess Aug 2012 #21

I wonder what % of Fox/Hate Radio consumers could correctly answer: Doctor_J Aug 2012 #24

Seems like public perception is pretty much spot-on. Marr Aug 2012 #25

So we vote them in, then complain when they do what they said they'd do bhikkhu Aug 2012 #26

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