Skip to main content

From Salon: Trump will score another win if Big Media fetishizes his soap opera while the working class suffers

Berry Craig
Social share icons

Equating aggregate national unemployment data and a robust stock market with a strong economy is a sucker's game

By BOB HENNELLY

You probably missed it unless you are closely tracking the predations of late stage vulture capitalism as it continues to suck the marrow out of the bones of America’s working class who under Trump are just sinking, like the Federal government itself, deeper and deeper into debt. 

The good news is, if you came out of your house to go to work recently and found your car was gone because it was repossessed, you are not alone. You are part of growing cohort of millions of other Americans for whom life sucks, even though they seem to be working all the time.

In the midst of the never-ending Trump border wall sandstorm it was easy to miss the alarming report that we just set a new record for the number of Americans who have fallen at least three months behind in their car payments.

Read more here.