What’s wrong with America

[Toddsterpatriot]

You know that the middle class has been replaced with the working poor. Look at how many aren’t saving enough for retirement. Look how man Americans can’t come up with $400 in an emergency. Look at debt in America. Cost of living. Job security. Cost of healthcare. I need to show you the masses Didnt all get rich? Wages.

Look how many people shit when Covid kept them home from work for one month. Shit, two weeks you shit the beds.

Rich is having enough to retire Comfortably at 62. Being able to live 2 years without a paycheck without having to touch your long term savings.

I believe if the middle class was paid fairly the median income would be $80,000. And not have it cause inflation. If corporate America is just going to raise prices when wages go up…

You know that the middle class has been replaced with the working poor.

Then you should be able to show the numbers.

 

[skye]

Everything is wrong with America.....since the Half Baked Potato In Chief and his gang of thugs stole the election.

 

[sealybobo]

You know that the middle class has been replaced with the working poor.

Then you should be able to show the numbers.

This actually supports both our arguments

stability in the share of adults living in middle-income households marks a shift from a decades-long downward trend. From 1971 to 2011, the share of adults in the middle class fell by 10 percentage points. But that shift was not all down the economic ladder. Indeed, the increase in the share of adults who are upper income was greater than the increase in the share who are lower income over that period, a sign of economic progress overall.

 

[sealybobo]

Everything is wrong with America.....since the Half Baked Potato In Chief and his gang of thugs stole the election.

Most of us a doing well. Tell us about your struggles and how you can’t make it in America

 

[ralfy]

One reference to CEOs is shared in a simple graph presented here:

 

[sealybobo]

One reference to CEOs is shared in a simple graph presented here:

Can’t see it. What did it say?

 

[Grumblenuts]

Can’t see it. What did it say?

IIRC, the guy did a nice job of explaining how capitalism began with pitting blacks against whites to keep the masses from noticing how the rich were simply stealing the value of everyone's labor. That worked so well they began promoting more and more reasons for us to hate each other and distract ourselves and here we are.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

IIRC, the guy did a nice job of explaining how capitalism began with pitting blacks against whites to keep the masses from noticing how the rich were simply stealing the value of everyone's labor. That worked so well they began promoting more and more reasons for us to hate each other and distract ourselves and here we are.

Is that why communism does so well around the world? No racism?

 

[Grumblenuts]

 

[Grumblenuts]

Is that why communism does so well around the world? No racism?

It's why capitalism does so well around the world. Soldierly sheep like ewe.

 

[sealybobo]

IIRC, the guy did a nice job of explaining how capitalism began with pitting blacks against whites to keep the masses from noticing how the rich were simply stealing the value of everyone's labor. That worked so well they began promoting more and more reasons for us to hate each other and distract ourselves and here we are.

Trumps defense should be that all he did was try to do what bush did in 2000 and 2004 with the help of Diebold Voting machines

Diebold Indicted: Its spectre still haunts Ohio elections | ColumbusFreePress.com

Diebold: the controversial manufacturer of voting and ATM machines, whose name conjures up the demons of Ohio’s 2004 presidential election irregularities, is now finally under indictment for a “worldwide pattern of criminal conduct.” Federal prosecutors filed charges against Diebold, Inc. on...

columbusfreepress.com

Republicans stealing elections is what’s wrong with America

 

[ralfy]

Can’t see it. What did it say?

Capitalists use various means to make workers fight with each other so that they won't realize that capitalists are taking advantage of them by gaining the bulk of earnings.

 

[sealybobo]

Any specifics on how he did that?

America's Largest Companies Paid Top Executives More Than They Paid In Taxes: Report​

The report highlights how rampant corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have become among dozens of major American companies.

America's Biggest Companies Paid Top Execs More Than They Paid In Taxes

The report highlights how rampant corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have become among dozens of major American companies.

www.huffpost.com

 

[GMCGeneral]

As

America's Largest Companies Paid Top Executives More Than They Paid In Taxes: Report​

The report highlights how rampant corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have become among dozens of major American companies.

America's Biggest Companies Paid Top Execs More Than They Paid In Taxes

The report highlights how rampant corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have become among dozens of major American companies.

www.huffpost.com

As It should be. You idiots should realize that PROFIT, not employees are what should drive businesses.

 

[sealybobo]

As

As It should be. You idiots should realize that PROFIT, not employees are what should drive businesses.

Like I said thank god for liberal democracy

Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class

Here are a couple of headlines for those who haven't had the time to study both economics and history: There is no such thing as a "free market." The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans...

www.thomhartmann.com

The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it

 

[GMCGeneral]

Like I said thank god for liberal democracy

Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class

Here are a couple of headlines for those who haven't had the time to study both economics and history: There is no such thing as a "free market." The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans...

www.thomhartmann.com

The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it

As it SHOULDN'T exist in the first place.

 

[sealybobo]

As it SHOULDN'T exist in the first place.

What shouldn't exist liberal democracy?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978: CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020

What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2020, a CEO at one of the top 350...

www.epi.org

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978​

Our pay went up 18%.

Envy is the problem, riiiight

 

[sealybobo]

Envy is the problem, riiiight

Nobles Need Not Pay Taxes

A new aristocracy is taking over not just the United States of America but also the world. ... This is more than just a tax cut story.

www.thomhartmann.com

How Rich is Too Rich For Democracy?

At what point does great wealth held in a few hands actually harm democracy, threatening to turn a democratic republic into an oligarchy?

www.thomhartmann.com

Is that the best you got? Do some reading

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Nobles Need Not Pay Taxes

A new aristocracy is taking over not just the United States of America but also the world. ... This is more than just a tax cut story.

www.thomhartmann.com

How Rich is Too Rich For Democracy?

At what point does great wealth held in a few hands actually harm democracy, threatening to turn a democratic republic into an oligarchy?

www.thomhartmann.com

Is that the best you got? Do some reading

CEO’s actually do the hard work of setting policy and direction, Comrade