If this is true, we are in trouble...

[Manonthestreet]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

This stuff has been true for a long time

Americans do not save
Do not like to save

Not much to save at times.

When I think back to being a teen in the 70's, what did we have? We had a television set, a landline telephone, a stereo with an 8-track player. Most of us were one-car families and ate out about three of four times a year. Maybe went to the movies about eight or ten times a year.

What do we spend our money on today that we didn't have back then? Family cell phone plans with smart phones for every member of the family. Cable or satellite television with 400 stations. Three video game systems complete with game cartridges. Pay-per-view movie channels. Netflix. The internet. Big screen televisions. A car for every adult member in the family. Fast food restaurants a half-dozen times a week or more.

Do people realize how much money we would all have if we lived like we did in the 70's?

Amen and Amen. The problem is NOT low wages. The problem is attitude and mind set and basic values that determine what is really important.

I have lived paycheck to paycheck but we did live. The fact is most families can manage with one car, without smart phones, without cable TV that alone costs more per month than we had to live on when we first started out. You don't have to eat out and it is possible to eat quite well on very little money if you manage properly and don't require the fancier foods.

We didn't have credit cards back then but had layaway plans at Sears and J.C. Penney so whatever we took home was paid for. What few charge accounts existed were controlled by local merchants who got paid every month or they cancelled your credit so it was hard to get into serious trouble financially. I can recall how amazing it was when we got our first gas card making going on vacation simpler. But we paid for our very infrequent motel rooms with cash or travelers checks and wrote a check for each of our monthly bills and purchases.

The government did absolutely nothing for us for day to day needs and expenses and we didn't expect it to. Many many of us started out dirt poor, but nobody stayed poor indefinitely because we expected to do what was necessary to achieve and improve our standard of living and everybody did.

What we need is one huge national attitude adjustment instead of living on the edge and then expecting the government to fix everything for us.

That is the problem. The government does very little for the middle class and poor, but they do a shit load for the extreme wealthy.

It is a racket the Mafia can only dream of.

The government has spent trillions of dollars on the poor and the government would not have those trillions of dollars to spend on the poor without those 'extremely wealthy.' However, the more trillions we spend on the poor, the more 'poor' we seem to have with us, and we have many more people who are now entrenched in poverty and training subsequent generations to live in poverty.

Benjamin Franklin once wisely observed after extensive travel to other lands:
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

The Founders to a man believed the central government should not be in the business of any form of charity but rather should facilitate individual freedom and ability to take initiative as the best policy to encourage prosperity for all. The Constitution gives the government absolutely no authority to take money from those who earn it and give it to those who do not. That is how it was intended so that excess authority--dictatorship--would not be given to the central government.

The War on Poverty: 50 years of failure

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

That's because we need over 30,000 new drivers industry can't find. That's why all these Fn foreigners are driving T/T.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Capitalist theory dictates that competition leads to better results.

That same theory would insist in regulating Capitalist monpolies who knock out competition laying people off & jacking up prices.

Republican Teddy Roosevelt did this with trust busting monopolies like Standard Oil.

Now a days Republicans are mega Capitalists & that is a problem.

You grew up in America, but your Polack ass really does not understand American politics.

I seriously doubt you understand the Founding Fathers intentions. Or how it was, for that matter. When did your people come over?

 

[xband]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

A good and high paying job. My first real job was on a hog farm. Old Saying: Too many hogs at the feed trough.

 

[xband]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

A good and high paying job. My first real job was on a hog farm. Old Saying: Too many hogs at the feed trough.

What did one hog say to the other? I give you three guesses and the first two don't count.

 

[Manonthestreet]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

That's because we need over 30,000 new drivers industry can't find. That's why all these Fn foreigners are driving T/T.

Guy at work, his dad is an instructor under school orders not to fail Somali driver trainees. Seems like really bad idea to me.

 

[easyt65]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

The US govt just collected a record amount in tax revenue ... And much of that money will be spent by politicians on themselves to fund their re-elections.

The $1 Trillion Obama Stimulus Bill contained over 7,000 pieces of self/party-serving 'pork'.

Perhaps if we TRULY cut the fraud, waste, & abuse ... To include politicians helping themselves to our money ... From govt spending the American people would be doing better financially...

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

That's because we need over 30,000 new drivers industry can't find. That's why all these Fn foreigners are driving T/T.

Guy at work, his dad is an instructor under school orders not to fail Somali driver trainees. Seems like really bad idea to me.

Oh and don't I know it. I get the jitters when I have to pass a container, flatbed or moving truck. These people just don't know how to drive.

At our company we advance our straight truck drivers to Class A. That way we don't have to hire somebody that doesn't know our company or customers. I know what these guys had to go through to upgrade their license. What I can't figure out is how all these foreigners got their license when they are such bad drivers. I mean, they can't back in a trailer if they had 500 feet in front of them.

At least once a year while waiting for a dock, some foreigner comes running up to me begging to back in his trailer because he doesn't know how. HTF did he get a license?????

 

[xband]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Post your source.

Is it ThinkProgress?

View attachment 223928

National Average Wage Index

The average wage is actually over $50,000. Only .08% (8 out of 10,000) American workers earn minimum wage.

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

That's because we need over 30,000 new drivers industry can't find. That's why all these Fn foreigners are driving T/T.

Guy at work, his dad is an instructor under school orders not to fail Somali driver trainees. Seems like really bad idea to me.

I was a Navy School Instructor teaching Main Frame General Purpose Digital Computer and Doppler Effect Missile Fire Control Radar. I was told do not flunk anyone in my Class but did it. The Army dude cried but I had to do it because it was way beyond his comprehension.

 

[Manonthestreet]

I would ADD look and your own personal history as far as wages....they have exploded up in my industry

What is your Industry if that is not indiscrete?

Drive Trc/Trailer......

That's because we need over 30,000 new drivers industry can't find. That's why all these Fn foreigners are driving T/T.

Guy at work, his dad is an instructor under school orders not to fail Somali driver trainees. Seems like really bad idea to me.

Oh and don't I know it. I get the jitters when I have to pass a container, flatbed or moving truck. These people just don't know how to drive.

At our company we advance our straight truck drivers to Class A. That way we don't have to hire somebody that doesn't know our company or customers. I know what these guys had to go through to upgrade their license. What I can't figure out is how all these foreigners got their license when they are such bad drivers. I mean, they can't back in a trailer if they had 500 feet in front of them.

At least once a year while waiting for a dock, some foreigner comes running up to me begging to back in his trailer because he doesn't know how. HTF did he get a license?????

Had that experience bout month ago. Companies here have taken to placing boulders around their entrance drive to keep drivers on the drive and off the landscaping. Guy ran right over...was banging into other trailers trying to back in...took him an hour.

 

[jasonnfree]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

This stuff has been true for a long time

Americans do not save
Do not like to save

Not much to save at times.

When I think back to being a teen in the 70's, what did we have? We had a television set, a landline telephone, a stereo with an 8-track player. Most of us were one-car families and ate out about three of four times a year. Maybe went to the movies about eight or ten times a year.

What do we spend our money on today that we didn't have back then? Family cell phone plans with smart phones for every member of the family. Cable or satellite television with 400 stations. Three video game systems complete with game cartridges. Pay-per-view movie channels. Netflix. The internet. Big screen televisions. A car for every adult member in the family. Fast food restaurants a half-dozen times a week or more.

Do people realize how much money we would all have if we lived like we did in the 70's?

I give your post an agree. On the other hand, a lot of the items we have now are real lifesavers and they do put people to work.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Capitalist theory dictates that competition leads to better results.

That same theory would insist in regulating Capitalist monpolies who knock out competition laying people off & jacking up prices.

Republican Teddy Roosevelt did this with trust busting monopolies like Standard Oil.

Now a days Republicans are mega Capitalists & that is a problem.

You grew up in America, but your Polack ass really does not understand American politics.

I seriously doubt you understand the Founding Fathers intentions. Or how it was, for that matter. When did your people come over?

Not really, the USA Founding Fathers were actually more like me than most modern Americans are.

A.) The Founding Fathers were for the most part anti-Semites.

America’s Founding Fathers and Judaism

B.) The Founding Fathers were for a White nation only.

Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

C.) The Founding Fathers were against a major military.

Why the Founding Fathers Would Object to Today’s Military

D.) The Founding Fathers America was for much more Corporate regulations.

Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States

But, I don't understand "Modern" American politics, and also I don't want to.

American politics is backwards, the first Leftists were Capitalists, and the first Right-Wingers were Authoritarian Monarchists.

So, not only have Americans misconstrued Political orientation.

Americans have a piss-poor understanding of Political implementation, Republicans, and Democrats both.

Republicans are so off kilter in that they want Social Conservative values, but promote Capitalism which sells out to Social Liberalism, anyways.

Democrats are so off kilter in that they want Unions, and better Public schools, but promote Illegal Immigrants who undermine Unions, and undermine Public schools.

I personally could scream my head off about how stupid this nation has become.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Life is way more expensive. My parents got their house, which is 2x the size of mine for 25% of the cost. The cable bill back then was like $50. Now I pay $250. There was no cell phone bill. Now I pay $350. Car prices and gas prices have skyrocketed. College tuition and food costs are way up. Middle class gets squeezed. Wealthy don’t care and the poor get enough Govt support to continuously game the system.

Monopolies need to be broken apart, like Republican Teddy Roosevelt had done.

In the case of College, and the Healthcare industry, we should have "Price Controls"

These have become fairly vital, and the jerks have jacked up prices left, and right.

Healthcare has had perhaps a bit of an excuse, that excuse is people live longer, and technology has become more expensive for treatments.

But, Colleges have hardly changed, and they have jacked up prices huge, huge, amounts even when you adjust for income to college, they were clearly much cheaper back in the day.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Capitalist theory dictates that competition leads to better results.

That same theory would insist in regulating Capitalist monpolies who knock out competition laying people off & jacking up prices.

Republican Teddy Roosevelt did this with trust busting monopolies like Standard Oil.

Now a days Republicans are mega Capitalists & that is a problem.

You grew up in America, but your Polack ass really does not understand American politics.

I seriously doubt you understand the Founding Fathers intentions. Or how it was, for that matter. When did your people come over?

Not really, the USA Founding Fathers were actually more like me than most modern Americans are.

A.) The Founding Fathers were for the most part anti-Semites.

America’s Founding Fathers and Judaism

B.) The Founding Fathers were for a White nation only.

Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

C.) The Founding Fathers were against a major military.

Why the Founding Fathers Would Object to Today’s Military

D.) The Founding Fathers America was for much more Corporate regulations.

Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States

But, I don't understand "Modern" American politics, and also I don't want to.

American politics is backwards, the first Leftists were Capitalists, and the first Right-Wingers were Authoritarian Monarchists.

So, not only have Americans misconstrued Political orientation.

Americans have a piss-poor understanding of Political implementation, Republicans, and Democrats both.

Republicans are so off kilter in that they want Social Conservative values, but promote Capitalism which sells out to Social Liberalism, anyways.

Democrats are so off kilter in that they want Unions, and better Public schools, but promote Illegal Immigrants who undermine Unions, and undermine Public schools.

I personally could scream my head off about how stupid this nation has become.

So personally do it and then ask me how many fucks I give, the answer may surprise you.

 

[Wyatt earp]

These statistics are claimed to be true:
1. 50% of American wage earners earn less than $30k.
2. 63% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency.
3. 80% of American workers live pay check to pay check.
4. Since 1973 American productivity has increased by 77%, yet hourly pay has grown by 12%. If the minimum wage was tracked to productivity, it would be over $20 an hour today.
5. 41% of American workers earn less than $12 per hour, with most without employer provided HC.
6. Since 2008 the federal government and the Fed created $26 trillion out of nothing. Was any of this enormous sum spent on infrastructure, public education, universal HC, bail out 5.1 million people who lost their homes?

Not a pretty picture for the poor and middle class. Hopefully things are improving or we are headed for big trouble.

Yea it's true 50% of American workers make less then $15 an hour this is what the left doesn't want the American worker to know as they push for trickle up poor so 50% of American workers make minimum wage.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Well if you were born poor, what system would you prefer to be poor under, Communism or capitalism? If you're born poor under Communism, that's the way you're going to stay because there is no way out of it. Capitalism just the opposite.

At this rate Capitalism looks even more hopeless than Communism.

Why?
A.) Capitalism will eventually outsource all the decent jobs which doesn't happen in Communism.

B.) Capitalism is leading to cultural replacement by immigrants here for cheap labor.

That has little to do with capitalism. That has to do with the American consumer.

Since the 80's, our country has become obsessed with cheap. I don't care where it's made, what the quality, just sell it to me as cheap as possible.

So you and I are competitors in the widget business. You pay your workers well and offer great benefits. I decide to move my operations overseas. Now I start taking your customers because I can produce my widgets and ship them back to the US for half the cost it takes to make yours. Now you have two choices: move overseas like I did, or join your former employees in the Unemployment Line.

That's the problem.

and the fix is simple, put tariffs on the foreign built crap, or don't buy it and opt for quality at a higher price.

Even easier criminalize outsourcing throw a few bastids behind bars & problem solved by example

that is a socialist tactic, but you are a socialist, so I understand why you would suggest that.

Who cares?
I care more about someone being put behind bars for outsourcing jobs, then arresting someone for peeing down in an ally-way.


PS
A lot of states used to be so strict in their corporate charters, that they wouldn't even allow transfers between US states of factory jobs, or even sometimes goods.

So, this "Socialism" you're speaking of, is NOTHING NEW, ton of states did just that back in the day.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Trump's short term exaggerations of the economy masks the long term effects his policies will have. The same phenomenon was seen with Reagan. It will be worse after Trump.

Reagan policy's made the 1990s prosperity.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Life is way more expensive. My parents got their house, which is 2x the size of mine for 25% of the cost. The cable bill back then was like $50. Now I pay $250. There was no cell phone bill. Now I pay $350. Car prices and gas prices have skyrocketed. College tuition and food costs are way up. Middle class gets squeezed. Wealthy don’t care and the poor get enough Govt support to continuously game the system.

Monopolies need to be broken apart, like Republican Teddy Roosevelt had done.

In the case of College, and the Healthcare industry, we should have "Price Controls"

These have become fairly vital, and the jerks have jacked up prices left, and right.

Healthcare has had perhaps a bit of an excuse, that excuse is people live longer, and technology has become more expensive for treatments.

But, Colleges have hardly changed, and they have jacked up prices huge, huge, amounts even when you adjust for income to college, they were clearly much cheaper back in the day.

The problem is colleges are doing nothing different than any other business. It's supply and demand. The more demand, the more expensive the supply.

 

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Life is way more expensive. My parents got their house, which is 2x the size of mine for 25% of the cost. The cable bill back then was like $50. Now I pay $250. There was no cell phone bill. Now I pay $350. Car prices and gas prices have skyrocketed. College tuition and food costs are way up. Middle class gets squeezed. Wealthy don’t care and the poor get enough Govt support to continuously game the system.

Monopolies need to be broken apart, like Republican Teddy Roosevelt had done.

In the case of College, and the Healthcare industry, we should have "Price Controls"

These have become fairly vital, and the jerks have jacked up prices left, and right.

Healthcare has had perhaps a bit of an excuse, that excuse is people live longer, and technology has become more expensive for treatments.

But, Colleges have hardly changed, and they have jacked up prices huge, huge, amounts even when you adjust for income to college, they were clearly much cheaper back in the day.

The problem is colleges are doing nothing different than any other business. It's supply and demand. The more demand, the more expensive the supply.

I agree but should not state schools be more affordable than they are now?