Thanks!

and that's after we bailed them out. Thanks for reminding everyone, and for keeping up the good fight!

does the working class figure out who's been trickling down on them?

a permanent underclass, in essence a return to lords and serfs.
Golden parachutes for the wealthy elites and golden showers for the working class.

financial movement realized during Clinton's tenure was completely and utterly wiped out by the dumbya rethuglicans. That's what happened to my family and, I suspect, millions of others.

hard to keep their tax cuts.

Thank you, AG, you are one of the people's lone voices. K & R

Mr Grayson,
Thank you for your voice. My husband and I are looking abroad to retire, and now. He got his pink slip last month and has about 5 months of work before we lose his income and health insurance. So we're going to hope for a job here but if one doesn't come, we're leaving the country. Oddly enough, he will be sworn in as a citizen next week but we are thinking of going to the UK where he grew up. He has connections there and thankfully, they have single payer health care. At least we won't go bankrupt getting sick as long as we can unload this house.
Cheers.

Americans can get that in their home country.
Thank you. I know I'm lucky.
Good Luck, good thoughts.

This pattern is reflected here in Ireland. We have had the biggest depression since the foundation of the state 90 years ago. Budgets/ bailouts/ austerity are the order of the day. Unemployment is running at 14% and the national debt (due to a stupid state guarantee issued to all bank debt in 2008) swarfs GDP/GNP. So who is paying? Well takes on teh rich remian low by european standards with no increases at all throught the now 4 year crisis. Tax loopholes for the super rich remain and in fact British and European celebrities and becoming resident here due to the ridiculously low tax rates applyng. Meannwhile the middle classes arebeing stretched to and beyond breaking point and the working classes - well they just don't have work anymore.

So...............in Ireland too..............the rich get richer while everybody else becomes impoverished cleaning up their gambling/banking debts while they just laugh at us

in fact, we landed at Shannon just a few hours before the planes hit the buildings on 9/11 - our daughter was there on a study abroad. We will never forget the kindness and hospitality of everyone there during an emotionally difficult time. (our favorite part was Dingle!)

that was a tough time to come but the Irish feel a real afinity towards the US and of course several Irish people were murdered in those atrocities too

Dingle is still beautiful - and rainy! - but the national spirit is well down due to this economic disaster and what it has done to our country. We're effectively enslaved now to german imperialists (don't get me started lol)

anyway maybe you'll get back again, glad you enjoyed

Considering how many have high credit card debt.