Michigan residents experienced a 6.2 percent decrease in median income in the course of one year, from 2008 to 2009, while Illinois has suffered a 24 percent increase in poverty in the past decade. More than 36 percent of Detroit’s population officially lives in poverty.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/cens-s29.shtml
Well that does suck, but how have we wound up witha system that celebrates the wealth of a few? Yes, chase the American dream, but that dream has stymied the working classs to the point they've been reduced to inactive rubble. 20% of Ameircans now account 50% of the wealth.
Something is amiss.
or maybe we should all try harder to be rich and exploitive.
