• Those “Wealth Increases” are only meaningful for people who are already extremely wealthy.

    For the rest of us, people touting “the economy” are just background noise; the reality is, housing costs are out of control; people with professional jobs can’t even afford a one bedroom apartment. Food prices have skyrocketed; the other day, I noticed a gallon of milk cost me $7. A sandwich or a burrito costs $15. That’s nearly a half hour wage for me, which is about the same buying power I had when I was making $7.25 in the late nineties.

    We need a sea change, and it needs to start with a wholesale replacement of our congressional body.