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boss, same as the old boss by Andrew Barbano Jan 02,
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to a friend | print Far more prestigious members of the pundit
class than me tried their best to analyze the mindless anger of
last summer's mislabeled teabaggers. (See below.) The best
anyone could do was say that the anger was real, but the
reasoning was not. Really? Corporate media really are a self-
reinforcing loop for the morally obtuse. I can do better. The
average American has been treading water since 1973, the last
time the average worker got a raise, adjusted for inflation.
We've sent wives and kids to work, maxed out credit cards, taken
out every form of legalized loan-shark credit. The middle class
has shrunk considerably over the past 30 years as we've exported
our jobs to Wal-Mart suppliers. Adding insult to injury, every
time that beleaguered customer plunks her pennies down at Wal-
Mart, she is reminded that she has no