Is Growing Inequality Caused By Liberal Public Policies?

[natstew]

Never any blame for the people who have all the economic power in this country? Wake up to the fact that we live in a plutocracy and the government does the bidding of the wealthy and connected. Opportunity is dead, economic mobility is dead, the American dream itself is dead and the billionaires and Wall Street killed it.

It's not that simple. You leave out the worst culprit, the politician.

 

[NYcarbineer]

A thought provoking story. The following sentence gets to the crux of the problem;


In order to do well in the world, young children—no matter how bright, no matter how capable—must learn essential skills. There are three places to learn them: at home, in school and on the job


A lot of youths are no longer able to get summer jobs where they learn needed skills. Schools fail to prepare students for the real world. And, single parent homes leave children with lack of guidance urging them to improve their lives.


But we hear the mantra of Economic Equality and demands to “do something about it.” So, just what are we expected to do? Continue the very policies that got us to this point?


Read the piece @ Is Growing Inequality Caused By Liberal Public Policies - Forbes

New York State has a statewide system of vocational training schools, within the public school system, that is available to every high school student as an educational option.

 

[occupied]

Never any blame for the people who have all the economic power in this country? Wake up to the fact that we live in a plutocracy and the government does the bidding of the wealthy and connected. Opportunity is dead, economic mobility is dead, the American dream itself is dead and the billionaires and Wall Street killed it.

It's not that simple. You leave out the worst culprit, the politician.

Politicians are only tools, they do what they are told and vote how they are told by the people who put them there. Just blaming politicians is like just blaming guns for shooting deaths.

 

[NYcarbineer]

FINALLY!!! REPUBLICANS ADMIT THAT INCOME INEQUALITY EXISTS!!

HERE YE HERE YE, READ ALL ABOUT IT

They are stampeding to the left and have been doing so ever since the 2012 election. And they're trampling tea partiers by the score in their mad dash.

Apparently they're following directions to the 21st century...

...go to the next intersection and turn left.

 

[JakeStarkey]

There is a reason that the desperate income inequality of today began in the 1980s, and it is not because of the immature assertion of the OP.

 

[mudwhistle]

Never any blame for the people who have all the economic power in this country? Wake up to the fact that we live in a plutocracy and the government does the bidding of the wealthy and connected. Opportunity is dead, economic mobility is dead, the American dream itself is dead and the billionaires and Wall Street killed it.

Strange how you can complain about that when the people you voted for are in power.

Used to be liberals had a point. Now they complain even when they are responsible.

 

[occupied]

Never any blame for the people who have all the economic power in this country? Wake up to the fact that we live in a plutocracy and the government does the bidding of the wealthy and connected. Opportunity is dead, economic mobility is dead, the American dream itself is dead and the billionaires and Wall Street killed it.

Strange how you can complain about that when the people you voted for are in power.

Used to be liberals had a point. Now they complain even when they are responsible.

I vote because it is my right, not because I feel voting alone has a chance of making America better. I try to vote for people who at least act as if they are concerned about the plight of the working class. You vote for politicians who are openly hostile to the working class and then complain that working people have things hard.

 

[JoeB131]

A thought provoking story. The following sentence gets to the crux of the problem;


In order to do well in the world, young children—no matter how bright, no matter how capable—must learn essential skills. There are three places to learn them: at home, in school and on the job


A lot of youths are no longer able to get summer jobs where they learn needed skills. Schools fail to prepare students for the real world. And, single parent homes leave children with lack of guidance urging them to improve their lives.


But we hear the mantra of Economic Equality and demands to “do something about it.” So, just what are we expected to do? Continue the very policies that got us to this point?

But what got us to that point, guy?

That we have policies to keep poor people from starving, or that most of the jobs they COULD be doing have been moved to third world shitholes because the wealthy wanted to save a whole .50 an hour on labor?

I think you also mistake "unwed motherhood" for "single parent" when they aren't the same thing.

 

[Redfish]

bullshit. Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Beyonce, A Rod, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Katie Couric, George Soros, the Koch brothers, Imelt, Trump.

anyone willing to work can make it in the USA, you losers and leeeches make me sick.

Uh, several of your bright shining examples inherited their wealth.

Yes, so what? They used what they inherited to start businesses, create jobs, pay taxes---------how awful.

Success is much easier when you start on the finish line.

Carson grew up in abject poverty with no father. Cain made it on his own, Gates invented something that the entire world wanted, so did Jobs, the entertainers and athletes did it by skill, talent, and hard work.

The ones who inherited wealth, increased their wealth by working. They created jobs and tax paying american workers.

The point is that american remains the best place to come from nothing and become something.

Not anymore. Student loan debt is the biggest obstacle at this moment to moving into the middle class. Only liberals want to fix that but the bankers and their republican partners have no interest.

The govt has been forgiving student loans for years. That is a red herring.

The problem is not student loans, the problem is that tuition has increased disproportionately over the last 20 years or so. Why? because once the colleges figured out that the govt would loan whatever the tuition was then they upped the tuition. Once again a liberal policy failed because it was not thought through completely to its logical conclusion.

But I ask you, why should a bank make an interest free loan that it may never collect?

 

[Redfish]

There is a reason that the desperate income inequality of today began in the 1980s, and it is not because of the immature assertion of the OP.

the country has been operating under liberal philosophies since the 1980s. Thats where the blame lies. The inequality that you so bitch about is the direct result of liberal policies that have made half of our population slaves to the government.

 

[JoeB131]

The govt has been forgiving student loans for years. That is a red herring.

The problem is not student loans, the problem is that tuition has increased disproportionately over the last 20 years or so. Why? because once the colleges figured out that the govt would loan whatever the tuition was then they upped the tuition. Once again a liberal policy failed because it was not thought through completely to its logical conclusion.

But I ask you, why should a bank make an interest free loan that it may never collect?

You're right. It shouldn't.

There should be none of this foolishness of "college loans" that the banks make profits administering. Instead, we should just give out scholarships to worthy students.

 

[2aguy]

There will not be any summer jobs for youth if that youth must be paid $15.00 an hour.

There are no more jobs for youth because those jobs are permanently occupied by single moms and young adults who have found that a degree is not the automatic path to the middle class it used to be.

Those jobs were meant for teenagers living at home....democrat/lib policies have driven out good jobs and now the people who had those jobs are now flipping burgers....and get less money because those jobs have reduced hours because of obamacare mandates...

Republicans succeed when people are successful and happy, all people....democrats succeed when people are poor, angry, jealous, uneducated and forced to beg for handouts from democrats...

It is not easy to nurture prosperity in a society......because it takes the government getting out of the way....it is very easy to destroy prosperity in a society because all that takes is politicians controlling things....

 

[2aguy]

The govt has been forgiving student loans for years. That is a red herring.

The problem is not student loans, the problem is that tuition has increased disproportionately over the last 20 years or so. Why? because once the colleges figured out that the govt would loan whatever the tuition was then they upped the tuition. Once again a liberal policy failed because it was not thought through completely to its logical conclusion.

But I ask you, why should a bank make an interest free loan that it may never collect?

You're right. It shouldn't.

There should be none of this foolishness of "college loans" that the banks make profits administering. Instead, we should just give out scholarships to worthy students.

What crap....more freebies.....is that all you libtards have...give away other peoples money and everything will be all right.......

 

[BluesLegend]

Time and again liberals sacrifice higher paying jobs for the poor and middle class on the alter of liberalism. Is the Keystone pipeline being built yet? No. Do liberals continuously attack job creators with their policies? Yes. Do liberal's policies make it all the more difficult for US job creators to compete globally? Yes. Do liberals continuously drive US jobs off-shore with their policies? Yes.

I'll give these asshole liberals one thing, they are masters of propaganda. They repeatedly shit on their own base with their policies yet they manage to pin the blame on everyone else, its the GOP's fault, its conservatives fault, its those evil corporations fault, its the rich's fault, its racist white peoples fault, etc. etc.

 

[Redfish]

Time and again liberals sacrifice higher paying jobs for the poor and middle class on the alter of liberalism. Is the Keystone pipeline being built yet? No. Do liberals continuously attack job creators with their policies? Yes. Do liberal's policies make it all the more difficult for US job creators to compete globally? Yes. Do liberals continuously drive US jobs off-shore with their policies? Yes.

I'll give these asshole liberals one thing, they are masters of propaganda. They repeatedly shit on their own base with their policies yet they manage to pin the blame on everyone else, its the GOP's fault, its conservatives fault, its those evil corporations fault, its the rich's fault, its racist white peoples fault, etc. etc.

well said, and 100% correct

 

[2aguy]

Time and again liberals sacrifice higher paying jobs for the poor and middle class on the alter of liberalism. Is the Keystone pipeline being built yet? No. Do liberals continuously attack job creators with their policies? Yes. Do liberal's policies make it all the more difficult for US job creators to compete globally? Yes. Do liberals continuously drive US jobs off-shore with their policies? Yes.

I'll give these asshole liberals one thing, they are masters of propaganda. They repeatedly shit on their own base with their policies yet they manage to pin the blame on everyone else, its the GOP's fault, its conservatives fault, its those evil corporations fault, its the rich's fault, its racist white peoples fault, etc. etc.

Exactly...between the unions, the environmentalists, the education wing of the democrat party, the press wing of the democrat party, they can destroy jobs, the education of children, and it all gets blamed on others..........and the victims still vote 95% for the very people destroying them.......

 

[Redfish]

Time and again liberals sacrifice higher paying jobs for the poor and middle class on the alter of liberalism. Is the Keystone pipeline being built yet? No. Do liberals continuously attack job creators with their policies? Yes. Do liberal's policies make it all the more difficult for US job creators to compete globally? Yes. Do liberals continuously drive US jobs off-shore with their policies? Yes.

I'll give these asshole liberals one thing, they are masters of propaganda. They repeatedly shit on their own base with their policies yet they manage to pin the blame on everyone else, its the GOP's fault, its conservatives fault, its those evil corporations fault, its the rich's fault, its racist white peoples fault, etc. etc.

Exactly...between the unions, the environmentalists, the education wing of the democrat party, the press wing of the democrat party, they can destroy jobs, the education of children, and it all gets blamed on others..........and the victims still vote 95% for the very people destroying them.......

sadly, what this proves is that liberalism is a mental disease. Hopefully someday medical science will find a cure. The defective liberal gene has been identified, its called DRD4.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Ah, everything to the left of Redfish is "liberal".

OK, got it.

 

[2aguy]

Besides the Key Stone Pipeline...you know, the pipeline crossing the entire country that the left/democrats say will only create 2 jobs....they fight frakking, they fight allowing farmers to have water in California in order to keep the delta smelt alive, they tax, and fine, and increase fees, and then insist on bribes and then call businesses the enemy and use them like piggy banks...

Chicago keeps trying to get a wal mart...the unions pressure their paid for politicians to keep them out because they aren't union....and those people have no jobs, and the crime created due to democrat police policies....leads to entire neighborhoods without food stores because no one can open a business safely.......

Mark Levine pointed out this about the left....they are like locusts....they go into a city, a state, they raise taxes, the drive out business, they increase social pathologies with their welfare policies, they undermine, underfund and understaff the police....and then...when the victims of these policies start breaking out of their neighborhoods to cause crime in the rich democrat areas of the city and state...the lefty/democrats move out...and move on to the next area......

Just like locusts.......

 

[JakeStarkey]

Never any blame for the people who have all the economic power in this country? Wake up to the fact that we live in a plutocracy and the government does the bidding of the wealthy and connected. Opportunity is dead, economic mobility is dead, the American dream itself is dead and the billionaires and Wall Street killed it.

bullshit. Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Beyonce, A Rod, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Katie Couric, George Soros, the Koch brothers, Imelt, Trump.

anyone willing to work can make it in the USA, you losers and leeeches make me sick.

Uh, several of your bright shining examples inherited their wealth.

Yes, so what? They used what they inherited to start businesses, create jobs, pay taxes---------how awful.

Some did, yes. Does anyone have a spread sheet that documents the number of jobs, businesses, etc., that were created?