Working harder? Making Less?

Unlike Wall Street where a company like Merril Lynch can lose $27bln in a quarter and pay out $37.5 Bln in bonuses back in the real world the American worker is more productive and making less.

Hizzah!  Trickle down economics!  What’s that you say?  The American dream!  I know, I know I hear all you folks saying that hard work will make you rich.  And look, here is your proof. Thank God we aren’t giving this hard working productive Americans their rewards.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that the American work force produced, at an annual rate, 6.4 percent more of the goods they made and services they provided in the second quarter of this year compared to a year ago. At the same time, “unit labor costs” — the amount employers paid for all that extra work — fell by 5.8 percent. The jump in productivity was higher than expected; the cut in labor costs more than double expectations.

Hey, don’t worry, they are still paying out bonuses at the top.  Your hard work isn’t going unnoticed.  Better profits, lower margins.  You really can do the job of 2 people.  Awesome!  You know what that means?  You were a lazy piece of shit before we fired your cube mate.  Now, since you have stepped it up, you get your job as a reward.  We knew you could do it!

The higher worker output and lower labor costs have been good news for companies struggling through the worst recession since World War II. So far, some 70 percent of companies in the S&P 500 have turned in better-than-expected profits for the latest quarter.

But don’t worry, there are people out there fighting to make sure you don’t get healh care, that want your social security to be put in 401k’s and telling you that your health care will get rationed (pssst, it already is)

Team America, FUCK YEAH!!!