Friday, May 3, 2013

This chart says it all. Record corporate profits coming at the expense of workers!

This chart says it all. Corporate profits are climbing to all-time record highs while wages and salaries continue to sink. Although this trend has been in place ever since Ronald Reagan and his "supply side" wealth-transfer-to-the-rich economic doctrine, it has also been happening under President Obama, only MORE ACUTELY THAN EVER!

The claim that Obama is a "socialist" or anti-business is the biggest CROCK OF SHIT line that has ever been uttered. He's literally giving away everything to business while completely throwing workers under the bus. If you're a worker and you voted for him, how do you feel now?

Corporate Profits vs. Wages and Salaries

The blue line represents corporate profits as a percent of GDP (right scale), while the red line represents wages and salaries as a percent of GDP (left scale).

As long as this trend remains in place, the stock market should do very, very, well.

3 comments:

Tyler Healey said...

I'm not sure this can be rectified by a booming economy.

I think Richard Wolff has some ideas for reducing income inequality, such as a law that would restrict executives from making an obscene amount more than their employees.

Roger Erickson said...

The afflicted desperately hoping to benefit, by investing in their oppressors.

It's called a Lottery System ... or a Feudal Aristocracy.

bbbar said...

"The blue line represents corporate profits as a percent of GDP (right scale), while the red line represents wages and salaries as a percent of GDP (left scale)."

The blue line should be the left scale and the red line the right, yes?