Lets make fun of Obama while he is still relevant.

[Eric the Green]

(11-25-2016, 12:28 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: None of which does any good when wages are stagnant.

Thanks entirely to Republicans blocking raises in the minimum wage, and granting tax breaks to the wealthy while they are allowed by weak unions to make 300 times more than the folks who do the work for them. And thanks to the strong labor market created by CEOs who send factories overseas for cheap labor and replace workers with machines, while simultaneously justifying trickle-down economics by denouncing social safety nets as merely "benefits for people who don't work---" the people THEY have thrown out of work. And by the cuts to education that make it less likely that people can qualify for the high-income tech jobs that still exist. And thanks to the 36 years and counting of trickle-down economics that reduces the demand side, thus keeping the economy and its businesses slow and thus wages stagnant.

And not at all thanks to illegal immigrants who take the jobs no-one else wants for a pittance, likely below minimum wage.

We are STILL WAITING FOR THE TRICKLE that will never come.