Private pay shrinks to historic lows

[Matt D.]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-from-private-sector_N.htm

Thanks, Obama, we The People are now getting paid less because of you.

http://images.usatoday.com/news/graphics/2010/2010-05-24-income-graf/income.jpg

This quote made me giggle.
"It's the system working as it should," Van de Water says. Government is stimulating growth and helping people in need, he says. As the economy recovers, private wages will rebound, he says.
Uhh, hello? Look at the fucking trend, you dolt! Since Obama took office it sure as hell hasn't slowed down, quite the opposite.

And these...
Economist Veronique de Rugy of the free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University says the riots in Greece over cutting benefits to close a huge budget deficit are a warning about unsustainable income programs.
But don't we have a bottomless supply of money? Obama thinks we do.
Economist David Henderson of the conservative Hoover Institution says a shift from private wages to government benefits saps the economy of dynamism. "People are paid for being rather than for producing," he says.
Fucking right! We need more people like this guy so our government stops enabling laziness.

[Kracka]

That chart is scary. The last quote is exactly what's wrong with our current government.

[viridionplague]

i think its funny that your singling out obama as the cause of this, when the graph clearly shows that the 1 year (the last notch in the graph) that obama was in charge out of the 10 years represented. the graph clearly starts leveling out on both ends.

[Kracka]

Look a bit more closely at that graph and notice what each line did in just 2009.

[sleepydsm]

Our whole "two party" system is bullshit anyways. No matter who is in charge, negative shit will happen. Our whole system of values, morals, everything, is completely f-ed anyways. Point the finger how ever you want, our country would still be in a shit hole even if Obama wasn't President.

[Matt D.]

i think its funny that your singling out obama as the cause of this, when the graph clearly shows that the 1 year (the last notch in the graph) that obama was in charge out of the 10 years represented. the graph clearly starts leveling out on both ends.
Are you blind? There is a trend, and the trend accelerated when Obama was in office.
Our whole "two party" system is bullshit anyways. No matter who is in charge, negative shit will happen. Our whole system of values, morals, everything, is completely f-ed anyways. Point the finger how ever you want, our country would still be in a shit hole even if Obama wasn't President.
I agree, which is why I vote something else. :)

[123abc]

Look a bit more closely at that graph and notice what each line did in just 2009.

I see the same kind of drop in 01 on that graph too.

[Matt D.]

I see the same kind of drop in 01 on that graph too.
So that makes it okay? The point is things are continuing on the trend, and faster than they ever have.

[Kracka]

I see the same kind of drop in 01 on that graph too.
Since when is reading a line so difficult? I don't know what to tell you other than to look closer.

[tpunx99GSX]

My pay has been increasing since i left college. maybe people need to get a different job if they are getting paid less. :)