What economic health? (Reply #13) - Democratic Underground

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Mon Jan 20, 2014, 06:13 PM

NuclearDem (16,184 posts)

13. What economic health?

This recovery has been terrific for Wall Street, but absolutely absent for everyone else. Wages are stagnant and most new jobs being created are shitty minimum wage jobs with little in the way of benefits.

That's not a recovery.

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
Toon: Worst President in history! [View all]	Playinghardball	Jan 2014	OP
I wonder what that guy's DU user name is?	11 Bravo	Jan 2014	#1
+1	Progressive dog	Jan 2014	#2
LOL.	Whisp	Jan 2014	#6
nice! but drones...	Pretzel_Warrior	Jan 2014	#8
And climate doom! Fracking! Snowden! Bush-Lite!	AverageJoe90	Jan 2014	#31
heh!	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2014	#15
Ha! Already here, with pals. nt	Hekate	Jan 2014	#24
K&R. nt	awoke_in_2003	Jan 2014	#3
k&r...	spanone	Jan 2014	#4
I still don't see why soaring corporate and Wall Street profits is a good thing	NuclearDem	Jan 2014	#5
do some math on how many were there in 2008 and how many are there now	Pretzel_Warrior	Jan 2014	#10
What economic health?	NuclearDem	Jan 2014	#13
pukrs blocked the jobs bill that PBO tried to get through congress,	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2014	#14
US Stock ownership at an all time low.	progressoid	Jan 2014	#17
all time low? Or since the start of your graph in 1999. The range is from 52% to 60%	Pretzel_Warrior	Jan 2014	#18
Worse, yet, like wealth in America, most of it goes to the top.	progressoid	Jan 2014	#21
And they will get back in more	treestar	Jan 2014	#41
Damn Shameful.	davidthegnome	Jan 2014	#19
Likely, more average people are draining retirement accounts	PowerToThePeople	Jan 2014	#22
Yep. n/t	progressoid	Jan 2014	#23
Well it's OUR 401's	sheshe2	Jan 2014	#26
Obama started withdrawing in 2011.	joshcryer	Jan 2014	#30
I would've added something	sakabatou	Jan 2014	#7
Record Wallstreet and corporate profits are not the halmark of a great president.	progressoid	Jan 2014	#9
Politicians have been suckered into thinking what's good for Wall Street is good for Main Street....	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2014	#12
It is for the investor class.	zeemike	Jan 2014	#16
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Jan 2014	#11
Not the worst,	obxhead	Jan 2014	#20
Yes whine whine whine..	Cha	Jan 2014	#25
...with the able assistance of my lovely First Lady,	OilemFirchen	Jan 2014	#27
lol	Cha	Jan 2014	#28
Wow, this thread must have gotten tons of views	sheshe2	Jan 2014	#29
Yeah, too bad	Cha	Jan 2014	#32
Red whine can be drawn out,	sheshe2	Jan 2014	#33
Obama says..	Cha	Jan 2014	#36
Well sheshe2	PowerToThePeople	Jan 2014	#35
The effort to claim there is no economic recovery	treestar	Jan 2014	#40
Except it was the Bush administration that is responsible for the auto bailout.	Gravitycollapse	Jan 2014	#34
Heh. Are they taking credit for that now too?	tridim	Jan 2014	#38
The bailout was the money given. And that was in 2008.	Gravitycollapse	Jan 2014	#39
Uhm, no.	tridim	Jan 2014	#42
Great cartoon	Gothmog	Jan 2014	#37

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