Do you see the correlation between drop of real wages and onset of neoliberal economic dogma?

Experience from (formerly) well developed Central European country:

Cons:
No possibility of foreign travel.
Western goods not on market and if than as part of shadow economy.
Mind policing of various forms - but other forms of intellectual oppression and blockade works in Western societies also.

Pros:
At late eighties there was quite high standard of living for almost everybody.
There was NO real poverty. No homeless, no problems with nutrition.
Quality of food was much better and food production was under constant quality control.
Education was fully state supported. No need to buy virtually any school proprieties till University. (some, really very small minority of people was excluded from university education for political reasons).
State budget was in surplus.
There was vast manufacturing base from metalurgy, through heavy machinery and chemical industry, precision metal works, electronics, ...
We were food sufficient.
Food production was highly localized (no senseless transports of "water", no logistic facilities, no overuse of highways).
There was railway network of highest density in the world. Railway transport need less energy than car transport hence lower dependance on foreign energy sources, lower pollution - it is little bit slower for sure.
Healthcare was free for everybody, network of medical facilities was dense, quality of care was comparable (something better something not) with Western Europe standards.
ALL MANUFACTURING AND LAND WAS IN CZECHOSLOVAK HANDS (it is more complicated, because of our Moscow satellite status).

Now is our industry destroyed or in foreign hands. Our land is sold to some corporate bastards - hey Germans, Austrians, any foreign INDIVIDUALs who want to develop farmland, please come and by our land. Better German farmer than multinational faceless ghost.

Call it capitalism or any other name: our economic situation has rapidly declined from onset of this "capitalism".

We were in perfect situation to start free, liberal republic without propaganda BS, where main form of ownership of means of production would be cooperatives. NO everything was sold for fraction of value to gangsters in ties. Our politics is farce between Washington and EU clans.
The ideology behind, the new propaganda face: economic NEOLIBERALISM and NEOCONSERVATIVE babel of leading role of USA under flag of Israel.

May be this is not capitalism (but it HAVE every property, Marx described), but for sure IT IS BAD, it is straight way to hell.

Why do you think old Hunter S. stopped searching?

Of course our standard of living will never fall as low as that of communist countries. Cyprus is the latest example. 10 years ago a thriving meditarranean paradise but since the socialists took over the place is run down. They even have regular electricity fallouts now.

Oh but its tax day, so all the money the irs takes from us will be used to increase our standard of living. LOL. Yeah right, can we agree taxes are theft?

Originally posted by Lord Jules
Oh but its tax day, so all the money the irs takes from us will be used to increase our standard of living. LOL. Yeah right, can we agree taxes are theft?

No.

Taxes aren't theft any more than you driving on a road you didn't pay for is theft.

Originally posted by lucid eyes
Of course our standard of living will never fall as low as that of communist countries. Cyprus is the latest example. 10 years ago a thriving meditarranean paradise but since the socialists took over the place is run down. They even have regular electricity fallouts now.

You probably did not read my post. In one of most developed former "communist" countries standard of living declined! after transition to "capitalism". You are just parroting propaganda.