More numbers out today: 

CEO compensation up 25%,
worker compensation up .5%. 

(take out even meager inflation and workers are heading backwards)

Quite frankly, for productivity to increase, workers will soon have to learn how to make
bricks without straw.

The corporations have done all they can at this point to increase their record profit, all
that’s left is death in your cubicle. Sure your employer will send your family flowers,
everyone in your work group will bemoan your death.

So have another hit on your slurpy, you can’t have freedom when your government
believes in slavery. 

Get back into the mud pits and dance you worthless maggot, or feel the lash on your
back.

Daye and monkeymind:

DITTO

Daye,
kudos.

Tens of thousands of pages of economic
logorrhea are boiled down to a short, single,
lucid sentence at the opening to this fine piece
from Mother Jones:

“If the median household income had kept pace
with the economy since 1970, it would now be
nearly $92,000, not $50,000.”

And there we have it - the true story of what
caused America’s steep decline into
consummate political madness, deranged
military adventurism, & then abysmal financial &
social despair. Namely, everyone not in the
upper 10% or so of the nation’s money makers
got robbed & abandoned - not just by the
scheming rich & their corporations, but by the
politicians who bedded down with them in
order to obtain & keep their power & perks, &
by the psychopathic economists, such as Milton
Friedman, whose delight when experiencing the
plight & pain of others was always clearly
evident in their smiles, smirks & speeches.
Whatever was once good was weeded out during
the past 40 years, & we are left with an upper
class of narcissists & social delinquents, wise
guys, who own politicians - including
presidents - as socially reprehensible as
themselves, behaving together across our land,
& throughout the world, as we used to think
only snorting bulls would behave in a china
shop. The sincere-seeming dapper dons among
them keep many of us (especially members of
the gentlemanly & ladylike 4th estate), babbling
not about their vileness, but about their
‘beliefs,’ as though beliefs & not egotism,
ambition, greed & just generally bad character
were the excuse for their deeds. The Congress
is an asylum for Katzenjammer Kids.

“Humans cannot be the cause of climate
change,” ha ha; “There is no money for Social
Security,” ha ha; “Privatized health insurance is
the American way,” ha ha; “The rich create all
jobs & should therefore never be taxed,” ha ha;
“The rich work hard for their money & must be
allowed to do what they please with it,” ha ha;
“Money is speech & speech must be
ungoverned,” ha ha; “Every business is a person
& can therefore do what it likes,” ha ha,
“governmental regulations imposed upon
corporations inevitably make things worse,” ho
ho, hee hee ... & Chaos, wedded to
Kapitalismus, reign together from the White
House, from Wall Street, from Hell.