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If the plutocrats have their way, then pay for government workers would be slashed (this is a huge part of the job market), which would in turn lower pay in the private sector, and then as worker pay was increasing so much slower than inflation so would worker's contributions to medicare !!!!

Not that we aren't already in a dismal situation, but if the plutocrats have their we we are SO FUCKED !!

We need to turn around the trend real income decreasing for the lower 90%.

Digging up 2012, jojo.

got a quota on anti-social security articles you gotta post? ? ?

I have heard a lot of problems about Obamacare. It was said that it is expensive and hard to pay for.

humanity says

If the plutocrats have their way, then pay for government workers would be slashed (this is a huge part of the job market), which would in turn lower pay in the private sector, and then as worker pay was increasing so much slower than inflation so would worker's contributions to medicare !!!!

Not that we aren't already in a dismal situation, but if the plutocrats have their we we are SO FUCKED !!

We need to turn around the trend real income decreasing for the lower 90%.

The trend of real income decreasing has been very well correlated to increasing government payroll since the 1970's . . . for a very simple reason: every government bureaucrat has to be paid out of the fruits of the labor from the productive private sector workers.

Reality says

The trend of real income decreasing has been very well correlated to increasing government payroll since the 1970's

Or it could be correlated to this:

nicoleB says

I have heard a lot of problems about Obamacare. It was said that it is expensive and hard to pay for.

That's just not true Nicole. Just ask Obama, he'll lie to you and tell you that it's just not true.

"he trend of real income decreasing has been very well correlated to increasing government payroll since the 1970's"

as sbh said ^, correlation does not equal causation, LOL

gov't spending (theoretically) injects $6T/yr back into our economy.

well, at least when our GOP administrations don't lose pallets of $100 bills in Iraq.

I for one do think our $6T gov't expense is ridiculous, but:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=t72

shows as % GDP gov't has been constant in the low 30%s since the 1960s, but corporate profits have doubled since 2000.

I have a real problem with that. Conservatives, however, cheer it.