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I Shaved My Head When Robert Stanfield Died

"...because Canadian politics is a baffling mystery that, when explained, still doesn't make sense, and has no bearing on anything." -Commenter on a Diefenbaker YTMND I made

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

HuffPost's Real Misery Index: Recalculating The Hard Times


It's an interesting metric Huffpo, but it's very middle-class centric. Your misery index doesn't take into account wages, income gaps, the working poor. It doesn't show the people who are working 60 hour weeks and bashing their head against the wall trying to make ends meet and actually succeeding, or workplace fatalities, postponed doctor visits, or any actual measure of waged income, just how tightly it's rationed. To borrow from RFK: The misery index measures all the terrible things happening in the economy except those that most frequently happen and hurt the most.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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