35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality

[danielpalos]

hunger is hunger . To quote that old Armenian lady , in the USA even the homeless run around with a chicken leg in each hand SwimExpert !!

In the US, the wealthiest even get to keep their multimillion dollar bonuses while on means tested, corporate welfare.

 

[pismoe]

don't know , don't care Daniel . I just have my life experience of being a regular American that was willing to work a job and my experience has been pretty good , same for my extended family , most of my neighbors . Sure , lots of people have more than me so maybe I just spent too much time drinking beer , eating sandwiches and relaxing .

 

[Staidhup]

Until such time that the corporate tax level is in keeping with the developed world, anti corporate culture toned down, education system reformed, manufacturing and meaningful job creation in the US will continue to remain stagnate, middle class skilled jobs will continue to shrink, and income disparity continue.

 

[danielpalos]

don't know , don't care Daniel . I just have my life experience of being a regular American that was willing to work a job and my experience has been pretty good , same for my extended family , most of my neighbors . Sure , lots of people have more than me so maybe I just spent too much time drinking beer , eating sandwiches and relaxing .

just as I suspected for Persons on the Right; why claim what you claim, for others when you really don't care.

 

[thereisnospoon]

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

Ok, then how would socialism which has been an abject failure elsewhere be any different in the US?
"The people"?......That a buzz term for "collective"......

 

[thereisnospoon]

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.

Of course. There is not a single 1% er liberal democrat. Ok....
Just what do you think you are owed?

 

[thereisnospoon]

I always did pretty good and I am no bigshot or inheritor of big money . All I did was go to work and kept working and saving . Nothing to it !!

Same here. Of course the left wing socialists on here can come up with millions of excuses, each one total bullshit, as to why working to get ahead is a bad thing.

 

[thereisnospoon]

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.

SPOT ON!!!!!!
Years ago, parents would point out things that successful people had( House, car, etc) and told their kids if they got and education and worked hard, they too could have a chance to have those nice things.
Today, kids are told by their parents that the reason why "those people" had those things are because they screwed every one else. And that "those people" had no right to have those things because it isn't fair.....

 

[thereisnospoon]

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!

Oh but that's different...

 

[thereisnospoon]

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!

I didn't say jack shit about Obama did I? He is just as bad as Bush,Clinton,Bush,Reagan,Carter etc.

Oh please.

 

[BluesLegend]

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!

Oh but that's different...

That's the nature of the liberal's Nazi propaganda, lie, spin, and double standards.

 

[BluesLegend]

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!

I didn't say jack shit about Obama did I? He is just as bad as Bush,Clinton,Bush,Reagan,Carter etc.

Oh please.

Their heads explode when you utterly destroy them with liberal examples of what they are BOOOOOOOOOOSHing about.

 

[thereisnospoon]

don't know , don't care Daniel . I just have my life experience of being a regular American that was willing to work a job and my experience has been pretty good , same for my extended family , most of my neighbors . Sure , lots of people have more than me so maybe I just spent too much time drinking beer , eating sandwiches and relaxing .

just as I suspected for Persons on the Right; why claim what you claim, for others when you really don't care.

Care about WHAT?
Is it your view that those of us who decided to get off our asses and work for a better life should somehow feel guilty about it?

 

[danielpalos]

don't know , don't care Daniel . I just have my life experience of being a regular American that was willing to work a job and my experience has been pretty good , same for my extended family , most of my neighbors . Sure , lots of people have more than me so maybe I just spent too much time drinking beer , eating sandwiches and relaxing .

just as I suspected for Persons on the Right; why claim what you claim, for others when you really don't care.

Care about WHAT?
Is it your view that those of us who decided to get off our asses and work for a better life should somehow feel guilty about it?

so what; even illiterate third worlders with a third world work ethic can make you look lazy, by comparison and contrast. get the relative point; Person on the clueless and Causeless Right.

 

[thereisnospoon]

I always did pretty good and I am no bigshot or inheritor of big money . All I did was go to work and kept working and saving . Nothing to it !!

How well did that work during the Great Depression? Does the Right do No Thing but "bite" the hand that fed them.

What the hell does the Great Depression have to do with anything?
I suppose you must believe that we should all kneel at the "Government is my God" altar because FDR came up with the New Deal?
Bite the hand that fed them?...WHAT?.....Hiney, check your calendar. It's 2015. Not 1940

 

[thereisnospoon]

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.

No./....What is the "natural rate of unemployment"?.....
And here's a newsflash for you...Businesses shed employees when business cycles dictate.
When the economy picks up, business must increase their respective staffs.

 

[thereisnospoon]

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

They are correct. Socialism sucks up wealth and makes it disappear forever.

Nothing but propaganda and rhetoric instead of a "hard work" ethic to understand the issues; the poor in the US are not really poor enough to the Right, by third world absolute (Capital) poverty Standards, due merely to Socialism in the US.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? Your post came nowhere close to a response to the OP....
Cupcake. Perhaps you should choose to post elsewhere. USMB is too advanced for you.

 

[danielpalos]

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

Ok, then how would socialism which has been an abject failure elsewhere be any different in the US?
"The people"?......That a buzz term for "collective"......

It hasn't been an abject failure. Only capitalism has failed everywhere it has been tried; did you miss 1929 and the socialism required to bailout Capitalism; like usual.

 

[danielpalos]

I always did pretty good and I am no bigshot or inheritor of big money . All I did was go to work and kept working and saving . Nothing to it !!

Same here. Of course the left wing socialists on here can come up with millions of excuses, each one total bullshit, as to why working to get ahead is a bad thing.

How well did working to get ahead work during the Capital, Great Depression which had to be bailed out by the virtual Communism of our Wartime economy.

 

[danielpalos]

I always did pretty good and I am no bigshot or inheritor of big money . All I did was go to work and kept working and saving . Nothing to it !!

How well did that work during the Great Depression? Does the Right do No Thing but "bite" the hand that fed them.

What the hell does the Great Depression have to do with anything?
I suppose you must believe that we should all kneel at the "Government is my God" altar because FDR came up with the New Deal?
Bite the hand that fed them?...WHAT?.....Hiney, check your calendar. It's 2015. Not 1940

socialism had to bailout Capitalism, like usual.