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snot

(10,504 posts)

1. We've lost a lot of ground,

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 01:06 AM

Dec 2013

w.r.t. both savings and income.

PS: Could we please stop talking about the middle class "disappearing," as if this were just a spontaneously, self-caused phenomenon, and start talking about the middle class being looted by the 1%?

"If you can't stop me from taking it from you, I earned it."

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Five Years Later, US Households Still Haven’t Recouped Financial Losses from Crisis [View all] eridani Dec 2013 OP

We've lost a lot of ground, snot Dec 2013 #1

+1 merrily Dec 2013 #6

>Could we please stop talking about the middle class "disappearing,< Exactly. It has, and is, by jtuck004 Dec 2013 #10

K&R WorseBeforeBetter Dec 2013 #2

The 1% is doing just fine, thank you very much. blkmusclmachine Dec 2013 #3

Factor in that the majority of that net worth is in home valuations Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #4

Good point on the banks. merrily Dec 2013 #5

With the stock market shooting into the stratosphere, Kablooie Dec 2013 #7

They were stolen, woo me with science Dec 2013 #8

Our stock market is is a reflection of the world economy B Calm Dec 2013 #9

This is why . . . Brigid Dec 2013 #11