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Related: About this forumBernie Was Right: Billionaires Are Getting Richer, Middle Class Continues To Get Screwed
Were in the middle of a so-called economic recovery, but the bottom 99% of earners arent feeling it. In fact, the only people who are doing better today are the already wealthy citizens who are watching their incomes soar higher than ever. Ring of Fires Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Bernie Was Right: Billionaires Are Getting Richer, Middle Class Continues To Get Screwed (Original Post)
GoLeft TV
Aug 2016
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emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)2. Great post, Bob. Seems you left out a few GOP presidents in between
who really really really helped out the 1%.
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)3. Thanks for posting this, really appreciate it.
ecodeathmarch
(34 posts)4. Great but...
the idea that Bernie invented and gets credit for the notion that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is like 🙄
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)5. yes, mentioned for the past 8 or so years by many of our esteemed elected.
a raise of OUR Federal minimum wage would be a nice start to fix inequality, but our worse Congress in history ignores 'the people'. perhaps this election the voters won't vote for them again.
Nitram
(22,913 posts)6. Might I point out that Bernie neither originated nor popularized this meme?