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The State of the Union Bush Forgot to Talk About (2 posts)

  1. truthmod
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    Sen. Bernie Sanders

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/t...

    -Nearly five million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty. Amazingly, the poverty rate is higher today than it was during the last recession in 2001.

    -Median household income for working-age Americans has declined by almost $2,500; and overall median household income has gone down by nearly $1,000.

    -8.6 million Americans have lost their health insurance.

    -Over three million manufacturing jobs have been lost, including more than 10,000 in my State of Vermont.

    -Three million workers have lost their pensions, and about half of American workers in the private sector have no pension coverage whatsoever.

    -The annual trade deficit has more than doubled, and the national debt has gone up by $3 trillion.

    -Health care premiums have increased 78 percent; the prices of gas and heating oil have more than doubled; and college education costs have increased by over 60 percent.

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    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. I wonder how long the American people will endorse the "fake it til you make it" mindset? It was understood that with Bush, the rich would be the ONLY people to receive positive purposeful action. So we act rich, obsess about rich, and all the affectations and ego hangups.

    This is the cultural hostile takeover of America. The richest now determine what is right in common behavior.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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