{"id":931,"date":"2014-03-08T02:08:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T02:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattralston.net\/?p=931"},"modified":"2014-03-08T23:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T23:33:05","slug":"war-middle-class-evidenced-kfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/politics\/war-middle-class-evidenced-kfc\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Against the Middle Class as Evidenced by KFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a big debate going on right now about whether the orchestrated demise of the middle class is a real thing or not, between people who read facts and people who don’t.<\/p>\n

The major banks which hold the majority of Americans’ declining savings have found a way to make taxpayers fiance their losses yet not share in their profits.<\/p>\n

Their C.E.O.’s award themselves million dollar bonuses of your overdraft fees and laugh behind your back while comfortably waiting for their next trip to Bohemian Grove <\/a>to worship each others erect penises and decide who’s next in line to head up the Federal Reserve, which can tell Oren Hatch what to do, who will in line talk about abortion and die in his empty suit.<\/p>\n

With inflation, minimum wage has never been lower, and with outsourcing, price fixing, and a host of other corporate criminal activity, the discrepancy in wages and the price of basic goods has never been higher.<\/p>\n

The irony is that lower-middle and middle-middle class people are now working so much harder for so much less that they don’t have time to be pissed about it, so most of them just assume everything is fine.<\/p>\n

However, I didn’t realize how bad things have gotten until I saw THIS:<\/p>\n