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Gee, I wonder why?

Obamacare is now structurally built into the economy.  In addition to all the exchanges going belly up, the premium increases are double-digit year after year and because of a lack of competition, health insurance companies are forced to insure more sickly people. Thus, they're passing costs onto the consumers. Employers will tell you their bargaining power is not helping them with their double digit increases... they pass part or all of it along to the worker. Just look at your pay stub for the last several years.

And, whatever they don't pass along to the employee, they absorb, but come time for raises, that "absorption" gets factored in, so lower raises and stagnant wages.

Bottom line, less $$$ are going to worker's raises and more is going to [u]mandated[/u] health care insurers.  Bravo! You got what you wanted. Now stop complaining about stagnant wages.

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BTW, inflation is much higher than the government tells you. They play games with their "basket" of products that they measure inflation; change it whenever the numbers start to look bad.  It's true! That jar of peanut butter or dish washing detergent really did just get smaller.  Those cartons of ice cream really all did get smaller at the same time. It's all politicized to make the voter think happy days are right around the corner. You know all this. You just can't admit the greater good is actually the greater bad.

Now, back to Sunday Night Football, Angry Birds, the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo,  Pokemon, and Dancing with the Stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan." - Ronald Reagan

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