You Coulda Fooled Me

What "recovery"? And for whom?

I am certainly not feeling any "recovery."

In the twisted world of the neolibs, up is down, black is white, bad is good, and so forth.

A "Democrat" named Barack Obama is helping to engineer this "recovery" by further wrecking the living standards of the masses:

If a portion of the manufacturing jobs that were previously moved to China and other low-wage havens are being brought back to the US, it is because the wages they pay have plummeted so far and the differential has so dramatically narrowed that the corporations can make higher profits by exploiting their “own” workers than by going overseas. As the CEO of GE Consumer & Industrial, James Campbell, told the New York Times last month, “making things in America is as viable as making things any place” because domestic labor costs are now “significantly less, with the competitive wages” now accepted by American workers.

The overall result of the Obama recovery, besides the impoverishment of ever wider layers of the working class, is a further staggering growth of social inequality. One stark metric of the decline in the social position of the American working class is the fact that in the third quarter of 2011, the share of the US gross domestic product going to corporate profits was at its highest (10.3 percent) since the 1960s, and the share going to wages was at its lowest (45.3 percent) on record.

Another good reason why I am withholding my vote in the presidential contest.