Rogue Columnist observes the signing of the tax cut bill with contempt for the beltway narrative. He is not overly impressed by the current occupant of the oval office but sees no leadership on the horizon. But the best part of his column is my mind is this paragraph, which I quote below.

From Rogue Columnist –

I’ve been spending time with the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. One harsh fact is that America is a poorer country. Vast swaths of the nation have seen their median family incomes fall from 2000 to 2009. Even the banking center of Charlotte has seen income drop 15 percent. Silicon Valley, off 11 percent. And of course great damage has been done in the areas least able to absorb it, the already lower-income Red States (the exception being counties with fossil fuels or big, subsidized ag). Now, this is a fact. How does one proceed from it? How does one proceed when it is put in the context of stagnant wages for most Americans going back 30 years? Does one change the policies that caused this? Or just keep doing them? Where is the centrist position on union busting? On monopolistic corporations such as Wal-Mart? On the big banks that privatize profits and socialize losses while continuing to have a gun to the world economy? On the loss of so many well-paid American jobs connected to actually making something of value, rather than peddling financial frauds and “the American Dream”?

Do we hear any answers out there? Will we?

James Pilant