No, Sawz... Most wage stats are tied to an index... Mostly inflation... If a guy gets a 2% raise, fir instance and the inflation rate fir the year is 4% then he's out 2% in purchasing power... This is what has occured since the early 80's... Okay, there may be some years where there were modest gains, after indexing... These weere mostly in the late 90s but they were, at best, very modest... If we look at the entire 30 year period we see that wages for the working class (indexed) have been stagnant...

Here the rub... If we look at household that are in the upper 10% they have done exceedingly well...

That may not be a problem fir you but it it is a major problem fro our economy... Yeah, I am sure that most people who are rich would love fir the economy to just bounce back and that the working class would do better... The problem is that these folks are not being asked to participate in the recovery... They weren't asked to ante up for a war that many of them profited from mightially... And now they are funneling unprecidented amount of cash annoomously to defeat those who might ask them to be good neighbors... In other words, these folks are "takers"... They really don't give a shit about thwe working class if it means the slightest inconvience for them... They are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in cold, hard cash they they won't even invest in their own country???

Maggots!!!

B~