"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Busting Middle-Class Myths
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2013-01-10 04:00
An ordinary American worker today, to buy the same bundle of items from Sears.com , needs to work a mere 105 hours — just about two and a half weeks. That‘s nearly a month less work time than was required in 1975, nearly nine weeks less than was required in 1956.
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