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forest444

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53. Thank you, Enid.

Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:56 PM

Jan 2016

In Germany's case, my guess is that the median is weighed down by households in the former East Germany - who I understand are stiill struggling after 25 years of reunification. Everything, as they say, takes time.

So good hearing from you again, Enid. Belated Happy New Year! All the best to you and yours.

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The World's Richest Middle Class, Is In CANADA ~ Check It Out [View all] appalachiablue Jan 2016 OP

GOP Block on Raising Minimum Wage, Lion of the Senate- 'WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?" appalachiablue Jan 2016 #1

OK, that made me cry passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #6

Ted Kennedy was the best, and perhaps one of the last real liberals in national public office. appalachiablue Jan 2016 #11

Ted Kennedy had the same type of brain tumour my son had riverbendviewgal Jan 2016 #13

Bravo to Canada for electing Trudeau and moving away from the extreme conservative appalachiablue Jan 2016 #16

Thank you... Thespian2 Jan 2016 #19

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

Same with Australia. Their median wealth is about 4X ours. pa28 Jan 2016 #2

Thanks, I knew Australia was better but not by that much. And we're awful alright.. appalachiablue Jan 2016 #4

It's healthcare costs and we overtax those who are just starting to make it. pa28 Jan 2016 #5

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

5x. MillennialDem Jan 2016 #48

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

I just betcha he's good friends with Hillary. passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #8

Bravo for Canada electing Trudeau. Good for them and their success! I also never thought appalachiablue Jan 2016 #10

Are you referring to laughing jokerman Hank P. and HRC being close? passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #14

Got it. Lean In Sandberg seems a barrel of laughs too. When I watched CSPAN occasionally appalachiablue Jan 2016 #17

Yeah, she can be clueless passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #21

Sums a lot of things up well. DirkGently Jan 2016 #9

The factors are critical to people's living standards, quality of life & interrelated for sure. appalachiablue Jan 2016 #56

From the latest Credit Suisse study on global household net worth: forest444 Jan 2016 #12

But..but...we are the sole owners of the American Dream! Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2016 #15

Worst of all, we had it. forest444 Jan 2016 #25

statistics enid602 Jan 2016 #32

Thank you, Enid. forest444 Jan 2016 #53

Germany enid602 Jan 2016 #54

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

Sad, but true. forest444 Jan 2016 #24

Correct, escalating profits for the US healthcare system and pharmaceutical industry are appalachiablue Jan 2016 #43

Where do those numbers come from? moondust Jan 2016 #28

They're there, moondust. forest444 Jan 2016 #52

K&R. Sigh... Overseas Jan 2016 #22

A penny for your thoughts... appalachiablue Jan 2016 #23

Just wishing I could move to Canada. Overseas Jan 2016 #34

Same here on both subjects. How this country & the world would have fared so much appalachiablue Jan 2016 #35

Yes. And if Reagan had not bamboozled the whole country so successfully. Overseas Jan 2016 #39

The 1980 election of Dutch Reagan was another seismic change for the worse. appalachiablue Jan 2016 #41

Well said. K&R. Overseas Jan 2016 #58

Canadian dollars? StrayKat Jan 2016 #26

It's hard to say where the number came from laundry_queen Jan 2016 #29

There needs to be some clarification laundry_queen Jan 2016 #30

Some observations enid602 Jan 2016 #31

Read upthread about your first point laundry_queen Jan 2016 #38

buy Canada enid602 Jan 2016 #40

Yep laundry_queen Jan 2016 #42

Canada seems to remember FDR's way of governing much better than we do. n/t pampango Jan 2016 #44

Yes, thank heaven! Bravo Canada, may you continue to prosper... appalachiablue Jan 2016 #51

This article says the rich in Canada are taxed LESS then the rich in America pault420 Jan 2016 #45

RESOURCES FOR CANADA'S NO. 1 MIDDLE CLASS, 2014: appalachiablue Jan 2016 #46

Simply put, Americans vote their racial prejudices over their economic interests Yavin4 Jan 2016 #47

Check this out MillennialDem Jan 2016 #49

This is shocking and unless the US makes some fast and serious fundamental changes appalachiablue Jan 2016 #50

Healthcare in Canada is not FREE. KentuckyWoman Jan 2016 #55