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If you arent born into money, you arent going to be rich. Fact.
I don't lie.
I am typing on a zaReason computer.
Your Vizeo TV - you probably think it is American. It is an American Company that imports TVs.
My Wall oven is Frididaire.
My dishwasher is Bosch
My Refridgerator is an Amanai
My chest freezer is made by Artic Air
That is my house.
Now my business...
I buy six figures a month of American made coated paper through Unisource, I use paper made by NewPage. From Xpedx I buy 5 figures a month of offset paper called Husky Offset...manufactured in North America.
I buy Ink from EFI and it is manufactured in the U.S.
I buy more American made products in a single day than you do in a year.
Want a medal? If I had the resources and the need, I would buy more. However since I'm putting my second child through college with only a one year hiatus between the oldest and the youngest, I do the best I fucking can.
Besides...you could very well be one of those "Message Board business tychoons". Who knows? It's easy to be tough and successful in anonymity.
Want a medal? WTF is that supposed to mean? You asked what do I do and I told you...oops...it wasn't the answer you expected was it?
I also am putting a child through college and my youngest will be a senior in high school next year.
You don't need more resources to buy American...the appliances I have - I bought all of them through Amazon at competitive prices that are no higher than the foriegn ones. (And BTW I forgot to mention our W/D is also American manufactured)
My Zareason computer - cost less than most of the Dells/HP's/Compaqs etc.
I refuse to go to f*cking WalMart. I find it disgusting that the largest employer in America is a retail outlet store selling products basically made with slave labor...and I am the bad guy.
Jared Bernstein: Inequality, the Middle Class, and Growth
Trickle-down economics, inequality, and incomes. Another piece of evidence with implications for rebuilding a strong middle class comes from new work by economists Emmanuel Saez et al. As shown in the figures from their paper (see here), they use international evidence from a wide variety of advanced economies to examine two key links in the logic of the supply-side chain.
First, they look at the relationship between the top marginal income tax rate in these countries and the change in income inequality. They find a strong negative correlation: in countries like ours that cut the top marginal tax rate, income is a lot more skewed (and note that this refers to pretax income, so the result is not a direct function of the tax policy changes).
But the critical question for supply-side is whether these high-end marginal tax rate reductions lead to faster income growth (we've already seen that they lead to more income inequality). The bottom figure shows that they do not. Real per capita income growth across these countries is unrelated to the changes in tax rates.
The above points emphasize an economic rationale for a growth model more favorable to the middle class. More broadly shared growth would not only score higher on a fairness criterion; it would provide a more reliable and durable structure for overall growth itself. It is no accident, in this regard, that the era of heightened inequality coincides with the arrival and persistence of what I've called "the shampoo economy:" bubble, bust, repeat.
Why do non-rich Repugs continually vote against their economic interests? Mental illness?
If you arent born into money, you arent going to be rich. Fact.
There are many stupid things said on this board. That one is right up there with the best.
No...you're not the bad guy. The thing is....neither am I. But that thought is incompatible with the current mindset of modern day conservative politics and propaganda.
At least you are sending your kids to college. Its the only, I mean ONLY, chance they have to get a little ahead. If you arent born into money, you arent going to be rich. Fact.
"There are many stupid things said on this board. That one is right up there with the best."
Yes I know, facts are stupid.
At least you are sending your kids to college. Its the only, I mean ONLY, chance they have to get a little ahead. If you arent born into money, you arent going to be rich. Fact.
At least you are sending your kids to college. Its the only, I mean ONLY, chance they have to get a little ahead. If you arent born into money, you arent going to be rich. Fact.
Want a medal? If I had the resources and the need, I would buy more. However since I'm putting my second child through college with only a one year hiatus between the oldest and the youngest, I do the best I fucking can.
Besides...you could very well be one of those "Message Board business tychoons". Who knows? It's easy to be tough and successful in anonymity.
Want a medal? WTF is that supposed to mean? You asked what do I do and I told you...oops...it wasn't the answer you expected was it?
I also am putting a child through college and my youngest will be a senior in high school next year.
You don't need more resources to buy American...the appliances I have - I bought all of them through Amazon at competitive prices that are no higher than the foriegn ones. (And BTW I forgot to mention our W/D is also American manufactured)
My Zareason computer - cost less than most of the Dells/HP's/Compaqs etc.
I refuse to go to f*cking WalMart. I find it disgusting that the largest employer in America is a retail outlet store selling products basically made with slave labor...and I am the bad guy.
No...you're not the bad guy. The thing is....neither am I. But that thought is incompatible with the current mindset of modern day conservative politics and propaganda.
Taxes help create jobs ?Demand creates jobs, not tax cuts for the rich
Government = ForceThe biggest advantage of having the uber-rich paying their fair share in taxes is that our natonal debt would be greatly reduced. Instead of having to destroy government services that help each citizen, the government could provide infrastructure improvement grants to communities, more health inspectors could be hired (and maybe slow down the constant e-coli outbreaks,) more staff could be hired to maintain our national parks...jobs. Jobs.
Or the 1% could keep their money and let the middle class continue to carry the tax burden, because apparently the middle class doesn't work hard for their money like the rich do.
Government = Force"starve the beast" trick:
1) First, cut taxes -- who does not want that?
2) Then point to the huge deficit and make hard decision to cut Medicare and social security.
The vast majority of our people will work their entire lives for someone else. Those people deserve a decently comfortable life too.
If people don't have the money to spend....the economy will die a slow and painful death
... real, living wages...some people don't think that the workforce deserves to have a decent life. They can [work] to make someone else vast amounts of money, but still struggle mightily to pay their bills and feed their families
... our wealthy won't make as much (but still remain incredibly wealthy) to give Joe Schmoe a wage that he can raise a family on in reasonably comfortable fashion.
Labor "deserves" to live "decently & comfortably", i.e. are "Entitled" to the American Dream of a "good life"......The vast majority of our people will work their entire lives for someone else. Those people deserve a decently comfortable life too.
Fractional-reserve banking already effects ideal "demand-side" stimulation, Governments implausibly "better bankers" on money matters... If you try to kickstart a stagnated economy by artificially fueling demand, this can only be done with cheap credit...
A nation's aggregate demand is not something that needs to be stimulated by government
Ownership is a societal convention, not an absolute of nature.