Working More - Earning Less - unless of course your rich...

This is the Republican way. You voted for it. They give the rich tax breaks so they can 'reinvest' in their companies and the economy - but the reality is that companies take the money and run leaving the bulk of us working harder and harder for less and less. The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans held 33.4 of the wealth in 2004... Oil companies - record year of profits while we take it at the pumps... Military industrial complex - record profits while your children die for as yet unjustified reasons...

What more proof do you need to vote differently? If you have a friend that is Republican, punch the square in the jaw and knock some sense into this country. (It's the blue collar way)

"As The New York Times reported on Monday, the economic expansion that began in late 2001 is on track to become the first since World War II that fails to offer a sustained lift to the real wages of most American workers. Although the U.S. economy has grown and productivity has been strong, American employees have not shared in the wealth they've helped to create.

The median hourly wage for American workers has declined 2 percent since 2003, after factoring in inflation. The drop has been especially notable, economists say, because productivity -- the amount that an average worker produces in an hour and the basic wellspring of a nation's living standards -- has risen steadily over the same period.

As a result, wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share since the 1960's. UBS, the investment bank, recently described the current period as "the golden era of profitability."