SniperFire
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Unfortunately, the Mitt Romney's of the world have made it impossible for a family to get by on one salary.
Explain.
Do you drive an import, by chance?
NOpe. I always buy American. Of course, how can you tell these days... I found out one of my Fords was assembled in Mexico.
But I go back to my point. The Republicans have spent the last 30 years undermining the middle class. Partially because unions break for the Dems, partially because of their slavish devotion Wall Street greed, but the fact is, working class salaries have gone down in real numbers since 1980 after being adjusted for inflation.
Free Trade, Right to Work, At-Will employment. All things the GOP is for, that have destroyed the very firewall against the type of European Socialism you all abhor.
So while my Dad could raise five kids on his good union salary back in the 1960's, his kids have to work two jobs just to keep a roof over their heads, AND they've limitd themselves to two kids on average.
But Mitt Romney has four mansions... that's the important thing.
What you closet Democrats don't get is that brief post-WW2 era was a moment in time made possible by having the rest of the industrial world in bombed-out ruin.
We are actually returning to more of a norm for this nation, and as you Liberals keep trying to punish our wealth and job creators in the name of fairness, they will continue to flee to greener pastures.