| HappySqurriel said:
As you can see by this graph, the poor income growth of the bottom 60% of Americans can largely be associated with these American's having never recovered from the recession of the 1990s and then stagnation and decline over the Bush administration; and, while I'm sure many Democrats will disagree with me, by the time the influence of the Obama administration is over they will (likely) be in a worse position that they were before Regan was elected.
The reason for this is simple, we no longer live in the economy of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and a high-school education with no skills beyond that will not get you a career that pays well; and being a high-school drop-out pretty much ensures that you will be unemployeed or work in a menial career. Those individuals who have gone onto trade-school or university and gained skills in in-demand fields (the top 20% of wage earners) are doing great; those that got skills in the liberal arts or other fields with limited demand (the second 20% of wage earners) are holding their own; but the bottom 60% are being failed by an educational system which is obsolete. |
OK heres your problem. More people work in the house hold now. If you are talking about the individual workers, The pay rates have dropped. This is a common republican bull proof. That makes no proof at all because more people work in the house hold. Not just the dad Like it used to be.
Second obama followed all republican ideals and thats why the democratic base is pissed off at him. So it is still republican ideals and also congress spend and make the rules for the most part. When dems had control, republicans did a record number of filibusters on bills that would have made this economy work. They don't want it to work because they want to destroy obama even if it means putting the economy in the dumps.
