Took a few hours off to accomodate some family needs. I’ve come to the revelation that daytime television is, for the most part, truly a wasteland. When I had a television set in my office, it was usually locked on a cable news or sports channel. This morning, I had the set on while we were doing some work in the kitchen and I realized that the doggone “Today Show” on NBC now runs from 7:00 am until 11:00 AM! I read somewhere that they were adding an hour, but the darn thing slugs along with rotating anchors a full four hours now! I’m now seriously glad that I’m not around the house during the morning hours! I can live without a recipe for sweet potato soup with peppers.
Earlier, the bedroom set was delivering news. Again today, the prime topic (beyond politics) was the economy. The Fed chairman had some pretty ugly predictions for the rest of the year.
And bloggers with some thoughts focused right where they should be: on folks in the once-prosperous “Middle Class”.
Middle class squeeze – perception or reality?
Republicans can talk all they want about how the economy grew in recent years, which is documented and true. However, this completely misses the point that for middle class Americans, the growth has been nonexistent. Growth has been for the select few such as [...]
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