sorry to get off topic... im sure most of give back when we can, including donating to our favorite charities. Seriously tell me who I can make the check out to so I can give my tax cut back, because it comes out to about 5 dollars a month and id love to give it back to go into our school systems and roads etc. nobody likes paying taxes but theres a certain level of social obligation involved. Im not saying strip people of their hard earned money, im just saying its a known fact that when you cut taxes we dont really feel much of it at our level, well at least my level since i cant speak for you. This is also one of the reasons im a proud union member who doesnt hesitate at all about paying dues (Its not quite the same but I believe its for a good cause for every one of my fellow aviators).

at any rate, labor is in big big trouble and i just dont see any good things happening. the new equilibrium for wages across all trades and industries is being established, and once that happens it will be hard to make it budge in the correct direction. the funny thing is if you run the statistics on average salaries in America in the future ill bet you the numbers will look great. But when you run the stats on the variation / standard deviation of these salaries youll probably be shocked. the tiny upper class will be in an an unbelievably elite tier, the new middle class will be mostly upper level managers, and everyone else will fall into the lower class. but everything will be just fine because the DJIA will be at 18,000 or something.