The end of the American Dream

[Rocko]

Do you know why some stocks pay dividends?

Make your own freak’n point

You act like a comp

Do you know why some stocks pay dividends?

Make your own freak’n point

Dividends are issued for one reason and that is to attract investors. You make it seem like a publicaly traded corporation should have other priorities. It shouldn’t. The shareholders are partners, and its the company’s job to increase the equity of their partners and attract more partners

They seemed to have no problem attracting investors thirty years ago and a larger portion of profits went to those who produce it

The market is a lot bigger than it was thirty years ago. We have trillion dollar companies now. If you’re saying all the wealth that’s generated isn’t being divvied out equally or fairly, that’s capitalism you have a problem with

Yes I do

And it makes me wonder why our Government is compensating them while we remove worker protections

We’re in agreement the government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers by compensating corporations

 

[sparky]

But they deserve a tax cut

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[initforme]

Some ignorant lowlifes attack those who live in their parents basements yet those kids aren't collecting govt assistance. So they are way way off base and have no argument to stand on. None. Hypocrites they are.

 

[Rocko]

65 percent of jobs do not pay enough to qualify as middle class

Corporate profits are at record levels, so is executive compensation

Yet, we can’t expect our corporations to pay more than a $7.25 minimum wage. We can’t burden them with health insurance, we can’t expect them to pay wages for employees to support a family

But they deserve a tax cut

Any business is in business to maximize their earnings. Who are you to say just because a company is making more, they’re employees should be compensated more? Why don’t you start a company and be as generous as you wish with your employees?

 

[initforme]

Good companies look to take care of employees. Bad ones don't. Easy beans. Who are you to differ?

 

[Rocko]

Good companies look to take care of employees. Bad ones don't. Easy beans. Who are you to differ?

In a free market companies have they incentive to take care of their employees

 

[sparky]

Good companies look to take care of employees. Bad ones don't. Easy beans. Who are you to differ?

In a free market companies have they incentive to take care of their employees

or...not....

 

[rightwinger]

65 percent of jobs do not pay enough to qualify as middle class

Corporate profits are at record levels, so is executive compensation

Yet, we can’t expect our corporations to pay more than a $7.25 minimum wage. We can’t burden them with health insurance, we can’t expect them to pay wages for employees to support a family

But they deserve a tax cut

Any business is in business to maximize their earnings. Who are you to say just because a company is making more, they’re employees should be compensated more? Why don’t you start a company and be as generous as you wish with your employees?

I am saying why is our government rewarding such behavior while they reduce protections for workers?

 

[rightwinger]

Good companies look to take care of employees. Bad ones don't. Easy beans. Who are you to differ?

In a free market companies have they incentive to take care of their employees

But they don’t

They have shifted that burden to the taxpayer

 

[francoHFW]

add this in, as an end result of allowing the elites rape of the middle class>>>

World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF

Deregulation could cause another meltdown, plus the Republicans blocked a lot of Regulation that should have been passed after the totally corrupt GOP World depression of 2008 which these assholes don't even know about LOL poor America.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Finish school, get a job, get married, raise a family, take family vacations, buy a house, send your kids to college, eventually retire

Most jobs don't support middle-class life after accounting for cost of living, exclusive study shows

Sixty-two percent of jobs fall short of that middle-class standard when factoring in both wages and the cost of living in the metro area where the job is located, according to the study by Third Way, a think tank that advocates center-left ideas.

I agree; The American Dream IS DEAD.

Silicon Valley's dirty secret: Using a shadow workforce of contract employees to drive profits

MONEY has become The American GOD.
PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT & AT ALL COSTS.
Americans place GREED above ALL ELSE.

Some 57.3 million Americans, or 36% of the workforce, are now freelancing, reveals a 2017 report by Upwork.

"Permanent employment — there's no such thing anymore. The line will get blurrier and blurrier"

So what do you propose to do about it, boy? Or did you just wanna bitch like the bitch you are?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

What i think is that corporations make enough to pay top executives and stock holders
They cannot claim the money is not there to better compensate their employees
The result is a declining standard of living for workers and loss of the American dream

How exactly do corporations compensate stock holders?

Dividends

And equity build

 

[rightwinger]

65 percent of jobs do not pay enough to qualify as middle class

Corporate profits are at record levels, so is executive compensation

Yet, we can’t expect our corporations to pay more than a $7.25 minimum wage. We can’t burden them with health insurance, we can’t expect them to pay wages for employees to support a family

But they deserve a tax cut

Any business is in business to maximize their earnings. Who are you to say just because a company is making more, they’re employees should be compensated more? Why don’t you start a company and be as generous as you wish with your employees?

Fine.......then stop government subsidies and give them to the employees instead

 

[caddo kid]

Finish school, get a job, get married, raise a family, take family vacations, buy a house, send your kids to college, eventually retire

Most jobs don't support middle-class life after accounting for cost of living, exclusive study shows

Sixty-two percent of jobs fall short of that middle-class standard when factoring in both wages and the cost of living in the metro area where the job is located, according to the study by Third Way, a think tank that advocates center-left ideas.

I agree; The American Dream IS DEAD.

Silicon Valley's dirty secret: Using a shadow workforce of contract employees to drive profits

MONEY has become The American GOD.
PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT & AT ALL COSTS.
Americans place GREED above ALL ELSE.

Some 57.3 million Americans, or 36% of the workforce, are now freelancing, reveals a 2017 report by Upwork.

"Permanent employment — there's no such thing anymore. The line will get blurrier and blurrier"

So what do you propose to do about it, boy? Or did you just wanna bitch like the bitch you are?

Well, since you brought it up pilgrim, what the Hell is your bitch boi Trump gonna do about it?

Come on Mr. MadAssSon (did you get the pun); tell US how the TrumpTard gonna fix it.

 

[francoHFW]

Likely a cereal rapist

My point is, the potus or congress are no more than mouthpieces

they account for very little of our economy, the well being of the middle class, or the future of America

they do, however, love partisans , best shield they have

~S~

My ass, dupe. The GOP is a giveaway to the rich end of story.
Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 35 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 63 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

Oh, i remember.....>>>

Long-term disaster he was...lack of money to invest in education training and infrastructure is making us go to hell except for the rich of course.... So now we have the worst inequality and Upward Mobility and poverty ever not to mention the worst BS propaganda machine ever, the only reason they can stay in power is total doops. All downhill since Reagan, s*** heads.
Demise of the American Middle Class In Numbers.

Over the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 63 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

 

[francoHFW]

65 percent of jobs do not pay enough to qualify as middle class

Corporate profits are at record levels, so is executive compensation

Yet, we can’t expect our corporations to pay more than a $7.25 minimum wage. We can’t burden them with health insurance, we can’t expect them to pay wages for employees to support a family

But they deserve a tax cut

Any business is in business to maximize their earnings. Who are you to say just because a company is making more, they’re employees should be compensated more? Why don’t you start a company and be as generous as you wish with your employees?

Fine.......then stop government subsidies and give them to the employees instead

The GOP Chumps are in favor of screwing over employees and the poor... Amazing dupes....

 

[Indeependent]

Finish school, get a job, get married, raise a family, take family vacations, buy a house, send your kids to college, eventually retire

Most jobs don't support middle-class life after accounting for cost of living, exclusive study shows

Advances in technology.

Should make our lives easier

We have the strongest economy on earth but our working class is losing a basic standard of living

It is all related to Return On Investment and the purposeful mechanism of overpopulating our workforce to drive down wages by both parties.

Return on investment has never been higher. Wages as a percentage of income haven’t been this low since the Guilded Age.

The Republican tax code, rewards investment not labour. There needs to be a balance. Things will continue to deteriorate until wages for workers increase to a living level. If they don’t, Poverty will continue to rise.

Give me a concrete example of an underpaid profession.

 

[sparky]

Skilled Trades Salaries in the United States | Indeed.com

juxtaposed to>>>

1968 dollars in 2018 | Inflation Calculator

 

[Skull Pilot]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

Experts agree having high tax rates on the richest is the only way to stop this ridiculous CEO pay. Thanks scumbag GOP brainwash and silly Dupes like you all...

WHat a private company pays its people is none of your fucking business

and you won't get paid more if someone else gets paid less

 

[Skull Pilot]

CEO salaries are out of whack. That is for sure. Rightly or wrongly.

It is not just CEOs but all top level management irrespective of their performance

And you think if someone else makes less that you'll make more?
Or that if someone else makes more then you'll make less?

What i think is that corporations make enough to pay top executives and stock holders
They cannot claim the money is not there to better compensate their employees
The result is a declining standard of living for workers and loss of the American dream

You do know that most people do not work for corporations that are traded on the stock market don't you?

What a CEO makes has no impact on your salary