Reply #1: The war on the American middle class is a success.

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Foreclosures left and right, crappy jobs for even more crappy pay, inflation is everywhere, poverty, homelessness and hunger on the rise, and yet the stock market is going up.

Seems the wealth transfer from the middle class to the uber rich is in full swing. The huge deficit spending the bushes have left us has gone to payouts to corporations in no bid contracts. We will be paying it off for decades to come. Friedman's "free market" plan has been a success. When well over fifty percent of the US is below the poverty level, then the free marketeers can put their stamp of approval on us.