Occupy Wall Street

Originally Posted by Riot

Sorry, no. All the economic data says no to your theory of "far more prosperous". And here is that data, in the link below.

By every metric: real income, buying power, tax liability, etc - no, people are not more prosperous now. They are less prosperous. The middle class has been disappearing.

And the fact that the data says "no" to "more prosperous life", and in fact they have a less prosperous life - is exactly why Occupy Wall Street is occurring.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...=sidebyuserrec

Oh, yeah: not to mention today's headline about the continued diminishment of the middle class:

Yeah maybe from a technology standpoint but that affordability is dictated by the ruling class. In fact there are people who believe our government has technology that is 20 years ahead of what Joe Public is given.

I tend to believe it.