35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality

[Preacher]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party,who pays for the republican party to exist so the republican party members can make sure the fed gov stays off their backs to pay a fair share of taxes,pay livable wages,and to keep jobs here. Granted the fed gov isn't doing a very good job of any of those either but its better to have them do SOMETHING n allow the 1% free reign over things.

Give me a f*cking break.
You people are so gullible and ignorant of any truth beyond what MSNBC tells you.
I suppose you heard of the term "Reaganomics" - trickle down theory of giving money to the top so that it will "trickle down" to the masses.
Well then...are you aware that Obama has engaged in the LARGEST MOST EXPANSIVE use of trickle down economics in the history of America? No administration even comes close to the $trillions of taxpayer dollars STILL BE GIVEN AT NO COST to elite corporations and the financial giants.
Are you aware that the top 7% since Obama took office have lavished in a RECORD 33% earnings increase while the remaining 93% of WORKING Americans have suffered a 5% decline??? At a time of record welfare??
Wake the f*ck up simpletons. Obama is an elitist/corporatist who has promoted Americas transformation into an oligarchy than any President in history. All the while receiving your praise and so ignorant as to blame someone else.
Man you low information people make me sick.

This isn't about Obama. I already stated he is just as bad as the rest of the presidents democrat and republican alike.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

All those mexicans will surely help...right?

They already are;

The United States is the world's largest national economy, representing 22% of nominal global GDP and 17% of global GDP (PPP).[2] The United States' GDP was estimated to be $17.710 trillion as of Q1 2015.[2][30] The U.S. dollar is the currency most used in international transactions and is the world's foremost reserve currency.[31] Several countries use it as their official currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency.[32] The United States has a mixed economy[33][34] and has maintained a stable overall GDP growth rate, a moderate unemployment rate, and high levels of research and capital investment.[35] Its six largest trading partners are Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany, and South Korea.[36]--Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

Simply by coming over here and making us look bad with a third world, capital work ethic, and sending money home so they can buy US goods.

What a dumbass,they're driving down wages while you cry about income equality.

Rent seeking or price seeking by sending jobs overseas is really helping our job market, right. It is merely public policies which accomplish that. We have a Commerce Clause and an official Mint. Why are there No Good Capitalist to be found who can make money on Commerce (well regulated) at our borders.

Funny,I worked for a company that opened a machine shop just over the border.
They fired all the average guys and kept the good ones to rework all the shit that came out of that place.

 

[TooTall]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party,who pays for the republican party to exist so the republican party members can make sure the fed gov stays off their backs to pay a fair share of taxes,pay livable wages,and to keep jobs here. Granted the fed gov isn't doing a very good job of any of those either but its better to have them do SOMETHING than allow the 1% free reign over things.

There are more 1%ers that are Democrats than are Republicans.

 

[danielpalos]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

All those mexicans will surely help...right?

They already are;

The United States is the world's largest national economy, representing 22% of nominal global GDP and 17% of global GDP (PPP).[2] The United States' GDP was estimated to be $17.710 trillion as of Q1 2015.[2][30] The U.S. dollar is the currency most used in international transactions and is the world's foremost reserve currency.[31] Several countries use it as their official currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency.[32] The United States has a mixed economy[33][34] and has maintained a stable overall GDP growth rate, a moderate unemployment rate, and high levels of research and capital investment.[35] Its six largest trading partners are Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany, and South Korea.[36]--Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

Simply by coming over here and making us look bad with a third world, capital work ethic, and sending money home so they can buy US goods.

What a dumbass,they're driving down wages while you cry about income equality.

Rent seeking or price seeking by sending jobs overseas is really helping our job market, right. It is merely public policies which accomplish that. We have a Commerce Clause and an official Mint. Why are there No Good Capitalist to be found who can make money on Commerce (well regulated) at our borders.

Funny,I worked for a company that opened a machine shop just over the border.
They fired all the average guys and kept the good ones to rework all the shit that came out of that place.

Y'all hire management from Hostess or something? Cheaper does not always mean better.

 

[Truth2Know]

People need to quit worrying about what other people earn. (Key word: earn.) There will always be someone who makes more than you and less than you.

The bottom line is that if you can't earn enough in America to live comfortably, then you aren't really trying.

I guess you haven't heard about a natural rate of unemployment or corporate downsizing.

Sure. Some people are naturally unemployable because they have no skills and no desire or capability to obtain them.

Some corporations downsize, some grow due to business conditions. Losing a job is tough, but there are always jobs in America for the capable person.

 

[TooTall]

People need to quit worrying about what other people earn. (Key word: earn.) There will always be someone who makes more than you and less than you.

The bottom line is that if you can't earn enough in America to live comfortably, then you aren't really trying.

I guess you haven't heard about a natural rate of unemployment or corporate downsizing.

Sure. Some people are naturally unemployable because they have no skills and no desire or capability to obtain them.

Some corporations downsize, some grow due to business conditions. Losing a job is tough, but there are always jobs in America for the capable person.

The first time I got layed off I cried. The second time I was sad. The third time I already had a better job to go to the next week.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

All those mexicans will surely help...right?

They already are;

The United States is the world's largest national economy, representing 22% of nominal global GDP and 17% of global GDP (PPP).[2] The United States' GDP was estimated to be $17.710 trillion as of Q1 2015.[2][30] The U.S. dollar is the currency most used in international transactions and is the world's foremost reserve currency.[31] Several countries use it as their official currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency.[32] The United States has a mixed economy[33][34] and has maintained a stable overall GDP growth rate, a moderate unemployment rate, and high levels of research and capital investment.[35] Its six largest trading partners are Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany, and South Korea.[36]--Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

Simply by coming over here and making us look bad with a third world, capital work ethic, and sending money home so they can buy US goods.

What a dumbass,they're driving down wages while you cry about income equality.

Rent seeking or price seeking by sending jobs overseas is really helping our job market, right. It is merely public policies which accomplish that. We have a Commerce Clause and an official Mint. Why are there No Good Capitalist to be found who can make money on Commerce (well regulated) at our borders.

Funny,I worked for a company that opened a machine shop just over the border.
They fired all the average guys and kept the good ones to rework all the shit that came out of that place.

Y'all hire management from Hostess or something? Cheaper does not always mean better.

What about all this commerce along the border you keep going on about?

 

[jasonnfree]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party,who pays for the republican party to exist so the republican party members can make sure the fed gov stays off their backs to pay a fair share of taxes,pay livable wages,and to keep jobs here. Granted the fed gov isn't doing a very good job of any of those either but its better to have them do SOMETHING than allow the 1% free reign over things.

Excuse me, who populated their cabinet with executives from Goldman Sachs? Yes Obama did, suck on it!

Correct, and working stiff repubs on this board still think he's a progressive or socialist. He's a corporate democrat and wouldn't have been funded by wall street if he hadn't been. Still, if you're down and out, you might get help from one of the programs that democrats have initiated over the decades. Republicans will kick you when you're down, call you a freeloader, and try to end any of the programs initiated to help those in need including babes in the cradle. Notice how even the mention of the program WIC will drive some repub posters into a purple rage?

 

[Preacher]

1%ers are a class of their own that transcends republican or democrat.

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party,who pays for the republican party to exist so the republican party members can make sure the fed gov stays off their backs to pay a fair share of taxes,pay livable wages,and to keep jobs here. Granted the fed gov isn't doing a very good job of any of those either but its better to have them do SOMETHING than allow the 1% free reign over things.

There are more 1%ers that are Democrats than are Republicans.[/QUO

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

People need to quit worrying about what other people earn. (Key word: earn.) There will always be someone who makes more than you and less than you.

The bottom line is that if you can't earn enough in America to live comfortably, then you aren't really trying.

I guess you haven't heard about a natural rate of unemployment or corporate downsizing.

Sure. Some people are naturally unemployable because they have no skills and no desire or capability to obtain them.

Some corporations downsize, some grow due to business conditions. Losing a job is tough, but there are always jobs in America for the capable person.

The first time I got layed off I cried. The second time I was sad. The third time I already had a job to go to the next week.

I was layed off one time. Had another job two days later.
And I learned real fast not to stick around if a company was mismanaged.
And I avoided "family owned and operated"places like the plague.

 

[TooTall]

1%ers are a class of their own that transcends republican or democrat.

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party,who pays for the republican party to exist so the republican party members can make sure the fed gov stays off their backs to pay a fair share of taxes,pay livable wages,and to keep jobs here. Granted the fed gov isn't doing a very good job of any of those either but its better to have them do SOMETHING than allow the 1% free reign over things.

There are more 1%ers that are Democrats than are Republicans.[/QUO

Why did you post "It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party" if it transcends parties?

 

[boedicca]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

I am not inclined to perform clickage on a Whingefest List for Losers.

The problem in America is not Income Equality, it is destruction of the cultural values of Individual Responsibility and Independency.

 

[Preacher]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

I am not inclined to perform clickage on a Whingefest List for Losers.

The problem in America is not Income Equality, it is destruction of the cultural values of Individual Responsibility and Independency.

Individuals against a Corporation don't get anywhere. Together as a UNION we can though...that's why it scares republicans. Can't have the wittle man fighting back now can we.

 

[boedicca]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

I am not inclined to perform clickage on a Whingefest List for Losers.

The problem in America is not Income Equality, it is destruction of the cultural values of Individual Responsibility and Independency.

Individuals against a Corporation don't get anywhere. Together as a UNION we can though...that's why it scares republicans. Can't have the wittle man fighting back now can we.

Have you actually ever been a union member?

I have for brief period of time. It was a quite instructive education in how union leadership rigs the job assignments and work rules so that their cronies make a lot of money for very little effort on the backs of powerless members who have to pay dues in order to have a job.

No thanks. I'd rather live by my own initiative and wits.

 

[Preacher]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

I am not inclined to perform clickage on a Whingefest List for Losers.

The problem in America is not Income Equality, it is destruction of the cultural values of Individual Responsibility and Independency.

Individuals against a Corporation don't get anywhere. Together as a UNION we can though...that's why it scares republicans. Can't have the wittle man fighting back now can we.

Have you actually ever been a union member?

I have for brief period of time. It was a quite instructive education in how union leadership rigs the job assignments and work rules so that their cronies make a lot of money for very little effort on the backs of powerless members who have to pay dues in order to have a job.

No thanks. I'd rather live by my own initiative and wits.

So be it then. Unions are the ONLY reason we have higher decent wages in SOME jobs. Be glad to leave the south behind for that one reason. Low ass wages thanks to republican policies.

 

[TooTall]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

I am not inclined to perform clickage on a Whingefest List for Losers.

The problem in America is not Income Equality, it is destruction of the cultural values of Individual Responsibility and Independency.

Individuals against a Corporation don't get anywhere. Together as a UNION we can though...that's why it scares republicans. Can't have the wittle man fighting back now can we.

Have you actually ever been a union member?

I have for brief period of time. It was a quite instructive education in how union leadership rigs the job assignments and work rules so that their cronies make a lot of money for very little effort on the backs of powerless members who have to pay dues in order to have a job.

No thanks. I'd rather live by my own initiative and wits.

So be it then. Unions are the ONLY reason we have higher decent wages in SOME jobs. Be glad to leave the south behind for that one reason. Low ass wages thanks to republican policies.

Wages are lower in the south, but the lower cost of living more than makes up for it.

 

[Misty]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

Income inequality is a meme used to pray on the poor.

The government, mainly the liberal side, believes that redistribution of wealth is a way to keep the poor out of everyone's hair.

Keep them calm and in the ghetto.

 

[2aguy]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

And that is the truth.

 

[boedicca]

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality - Salon.com

Interesting and disturbing.

I am not inclined to perform clickage on a Whingefest List for Losers.

The problem in America is not Income Equality, it is destruction of the cultural values of Individual Responsibility and Independency.

Individuals against a Corporation don't get anywhere. Together as a UNION we can though...that's why it scares republicans. Can't have the wittle man fighting back now can we.

Have you actually ever been a union member?

I have for brief period of time. It was a quite instructive education in how union leadership rigs the job assignments and work rules so that their cronies make a lot of money for very little effort on the backs of powerless members who have to pay dues in order to have a job.

No thanks. I'd rather live by my own initiative and wits.

So be it then. Unions are the ONLY reason we have higher decent wages in SOME jobs. Be glad to leave the south behind for that one reason. Low ass wages thanks to republican policies.

That is absolute poppycock.

The reason we have decent wages is increased worker productivity due to innovation and technology...due to Real Capitalism, not the perverted Big Government Cronyism that has replaced it in many sectors of the economy.

 

[2aguy]

Yet, the right believes that Capitalism is what increases wealth for the People and not socialism.

It does increase wealth for the 1% which is who runs the republican party,who pays for the republican party to exist so the republican party members can make sure the fed gov stays off their backs to pay a fair share of taxes,pay livable wages,and to keep jobs here. Granted the fed gov isn't doing a very good job of any of those either but its better to have them do SOMETHING than allow the 1% free reign over things.

And of course hilary and obama, and the other democrats just scrape by...right? And the hollywood rich, and google guys, and the gates's and buffet.....all democrats....and living hand to mouth...right?