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say AVERAGE, not MEDIAN. What this means is that a few rich people
got far, far richer. The average wage is skewed by the Dick Cheneys and the
Bill Gateses. The median wage is the actual "average wage" earned by the
"average" American...something to the order of $22,500/yr...down 15%
from 1999. If the only place you can find another job is WalMart, your
wage isn't going up, it's going down. When they say the GDP is up, they
mean Rupert Murdoch can buy another 3d world nation, not that YOU are
doing better.
2. Unemployment is down: This is the Good Reverend's favorite. To
understand how this works, you have to understand how the Bureau of
Labor Statistics counts the unemployed. If you have a part time job, you're
employed. If you are the head of a family of 4, and work at Walmart for
$5.40/hr, you are employed. If you ARE unemployed, but your benefits
have run out, YOU DON'T COUNT. Period. Don't take the Good
Reverend's word on it, go to the source itself:
http://bls.gov
What this means is that the unemployment rate is usually ~
2%-5% higher than advertised. Under Clinton's "4.6%"
unemployment, actual unemployment was about 6.9%. Under
Bush, it isn't 5.7%, it's actually 10.9%, according to CNN's
Moneyline.
3. Bush's tax cuts have stimulated the economy, creating more jobs:
Yeeeeeah. In Bangladesh, at $0.25/day. Fact is, cutting taxes while
eliminating capital gains taxes causes one thing...it causes rich people to
invest their money in other countries where sweatshops turn enormous
profits on the backs of those who are little more than slaves. Why the hell
would they invest here? Here, we have OSHA, the EPA, labor laws,
etc...with no capital gains taxes, the beauty is, the government gets NO
REVENUE AT ALL. Further prrof, of course, that people are stupid. Bush
came along, peddling the same supply side, trickle down bullshit that
Reagan sold us, and people went for it AGAIN.
Even David Stockman calls it gibberish, and he was there when
they first thought it up, lo these 25 years ago. Even a teenage
crack dealer can tell you that there is no way to cut revenues
and triple expenditures without running into the same nastiness
that caused Argentina to collapse four years ago...or that got
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