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In reply to the discussion: The World's Richest Middle Class, Is In CANADA ~ Check It Out [View all]appalachiablue
(41,221 posts)4. Thanks, I knew Australia was better but not by that much. And we're awful alright..
Predators plundering our own for more riches for the top wealthiest. The American Nightmare & Disgrace that must End.
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>PORTRAIT OF AMERICAN FINANCE: Three US Treasury Secretaries, Treasury Staffer & Facebook Executive Laugh It Up Over INCOME INEQUALITY, How They Increased and Widened It. Geithner, Paulson, Rubin and Sandberg, Milken Annual Global Conference, Beverly Hills, CA., April 27, 2015. Hilarious, and a riot, really?
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GOP Block on Raising Minimum Wage, Lion of the Senate- 'WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?"
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#1
Ted Kennedy was the best, and perhaps one of the last real liberals in national public office.
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#11
Bravo to Canada for electing Trudeau and moving away from the extreme conservative
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#16
Thanks for posting & congratulations on your successful move. All the best in the new Canadian home!
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#20
New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party, age 44, son of PM Pierre Trudeau
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#27
Check it out, since 1970 FLAT LINE for US wages compared to other western nations:
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#36
Thanks, I knew Australia was better but not by that much. And we're awful alright..
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#4
Right on healthcare, unfair tax system, asset mountain & indifferent policymakers which
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#33
To add, I've never heard of any major migration of Canadians to the US which is telling.
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#57
One of my customers comes down here in Florida every winter to beat the cold. We were talking..
BlueJazz
Jan 2016
#3
Your customer was spot on. Canadians are good folks from those I've met mostly in Fl also,
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#7
Bravo for Canada electing Trudeau. Good for them and their success! I also never thought
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#10
Got it. Lean In Sandberg seems a barrel of laughs too. When I watched CSPAN occasionally
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#17
The factors are critical to people's living standards, quality of life & interrelated for sure.
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#56
Correct, we blew it ourselves with no other cause to blame. A dismal record of what we've become.
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#37
Thank you, another report among several lately on our steadily declining working & middle classes.
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#18
Correct, escalating profits for the US healthcare system and pharmaceutical industry are
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#43
Same here on both subjects. How this country & the world would have fared so much
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#35
The 1980 election of Dutch Reagan was another seismic change for the worse.
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#41
Simply put, Americans vote their racial prejudices over their economic interests
Yavin4
Jan 2016
#47
This is shocking and unless the US makes some fast and serious fundamental changes
appalachiablue
Jan 2016
#50