So you think that Union labor controls the economy.It is not labor
but
greed.
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FWIW
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Costly where it counts
Some things are getting cheaper. But that's the stuff we can do
without
By Peter Y. Hong, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 9, 2008
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Average weekly earnings in the private sector in 2007 were 15%
below the 1972 peak in real terms, according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.

Along with falling wages, we're paying more for benefits. Health
insurance premiums rose 78% from 2002 to 2007, according to the
Kaiser Family Foundation.

Retirement costs more as well. We spent 4% more on pensions and
Social Security in 2005 than in 1990 in real terms, census
figures show.

And we're spending a lot more on education. Yearly total costs at
some elite private colleges now exceed the U.S. median household
income. Many public universities have steadily increased their
prices too, and at UCLA, students shell out more for parking
($225 a quarter) and textbooks (more than $100 for a single tome
in many classes) than generations of students paid for tuition at
University of California campuses in the first half of the 20th
century.
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for complete article see

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...=1&cset= true


Conservatives just can't stand it when you tell them that the prosperity
capitalism is supposed to deliver to Americans just isn't happening. Thirty
years pass and workers are getting less pay than before. The plan was that
people who work hard for a living and play by the rules are supposed to get
ahead. The middle class is declining not getting ahead. The promised
prosperity is not happening. That is an unvarnished fact. Conservatives just
hate hearing that all the malarky they spread about hard work and success
just isn't true. At least not in America, not any more. The people of this
country are getting poorer every year even though they are working more
hours than ever. That is the free market not delivering a higher standard to
working Americans. Looks to me like Americans got conned.

Hawke