SOTU: Economy Has Benefited Only The Rich
SOTU: Economy Has Benefited Only The Rich
Bush said: “Wages are up, but so are prices for food and gas.”
FACT — HIGH-END INCOMES INCREASED ASTRONOMICALLY: Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans — those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 — receiving their largest share of national income since 1928. [NYT, 3/29/07]
FACT — LOW INCOME-EARNERS SAW MARGINAL WAGE GROWTH. “The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans … On average, incomes for the top 1 percent of households rose by $465,700 each, or 42.6 percent after adjusting for inflation. The incomes of the poorest fifth rose by $200, or 1.3 percent, and the middle fifth increased by $2,400 or 4.3 percent.” [NYT, 12/15/07]
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Someone PLEASE stand up on the floor of the chamber and SCREAM
January 28th, 2008 at 9:20 pmYOU FU(KING TRAITOR!!!!!!
If I was rich, I would vote for him.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:29 pmI am not.
Impeach.
The 3 words I want the next Prez to say as his/her first words after being sowrn in…
January 28th, 2008 at 9:30 pmARREST THESE MEN.
Whitehouse IS TAKING CALLS NOW.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm1-20-456-1111
i can’t even watch the SOTU. It is that nauseating. The applause for the idiot-in chief and Cheney and Pelosi sitting there with those plastic smiles frozen on their faces was more than I could take.
People should be throwing rotten tomatoes at the lowlife lying sociopath and his cronies and enablers, not applauding the criminal.
Btw, 5 soldiers were killed today in Iraq. Who were they? Did they leave kids, wives, parents behind? what were their stories?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pmThe Corporate American media doesn’t give a s***.
They are just faceless nobodies….bodies to serve and feed the machine
WAIT BREAKING NEWS!! MISSING COED!!………BRITNEY DRINKS LIGHTER FLUID AND COUGH MEDICINE COCKTAIL!!
Wages are up? Any of you trolls want to back up that obvious lie?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:13 pm