Poor guy. I am away from home 3 weeks at a time and home one week. Feel sorry for me yet?
Why uis it that you need to put up a little smilie hoping to convicne people that your 'remark' is somehow funny?
Why would I feel sorry for you? I have no idea what you do or it it serves any actual good purpose.
Nice spin but we all know that unions are part of the democrat party Obama has proven that over the last 2 years
discuss the facts
Income Gap Is Widening, Data Shows:
"Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans — those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 — receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows.
The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression.
While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent.
The gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than $1.1 million each, an increase of more than $139,000, or about 14 percent.
The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html
If we listed ALL the changes since FDR, you would need a library.... and then some. Your link is hardly relevant to the topic.
Why do you want to rape your dog? ---- You see how stupid that sounds? That's how your statement above sounds, and since you cannot dispute the facts you have to resort to hyperbole and appeals to emotion to push your point of view. Look, the facts are the facts - I know you don't like them but that's the reality.
You're one of 3 people in this country reading Dean Baker. :lamo
Nice spin but we all know that unions are part of the democrat party Obama has proven that over the last 2 years
Why do you imply this is a problem, and not a positive?Income Gap Is Widening, Data Shows:l
Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report - washingtonpost.comA confidential list prepared by the Bush administration shows that Cheney and his aides had already held at least 40 meetings with interest groups, most of them from energy-producing industries. By the time of the meeting with environmental groups, according to a former White House official who provided the list to The Washington Post, the initial draft of the task force was substantially complete and President Bush had been briefed on its progress.
Why do you imply this is a problem, and not a positive?
Speaking of hyperbole,(plus a bit of mind readon) from your post …
Hardly relevant to the topic?
You feel that Unions didn't play a part in Detroit's downfall?
#1. The strength of the middle class is not directly linked to wealth inequality. Please show direct correlation else concede that it's not relevant.Because I happen to think a strong middle class is necessary for a healthy economy, and I don't much care for a corporate run society.
Ouch right? But look at the opposite as well to seal the deal. What happens when labor-focused communist nations don't accept free markets? North Korea? How is their middle class doing.February 2009, The Economist announced that over half the world's population now belongs to the middle class, as a result of rapid growth in emerging countries
#1. The strength of the middle class is not directly linked to wealth inequality. Please show direct correlation else concede that it's not relevant.
#2. And what fostered the creation of the middle class as we know it today? Capitalism (freedom in the marketplace). How do you reconcile your beliefs with this reality?
#3. Corporate run society is nonsensical rhetoric. You want to get into a propoganda back and forth or try and reason this out?
What happens when labor-focused formerly communist nations add some capitalism to the mix?
Ouch right? But look at the opposite as well to seal the deal. What happens when labor-focused communist nations don't accept free markets? North Korea? How is their middle class doing.
If public unions increase the cost of labor for government, who pays for this? Taxpayers. According to many liberals, the wealthy business owners will make their employees bear the burden of higher costs. So when a union forces taxpayers to pay them more for their services, by this logic, it's primarily the middle class and working class that pays for their sweetheart deals. If you are for a strong middle class, you should oppose not only excess government, but public unions (unions in general).
Sitting in the same job for 30 years that someone with just 1-2 years of experience can do just as well or better, is tragic for everyone involved. It's protectionism for workers.
How is having a small percentage of rich people controlling most of the wealth while most are poor and uneducated good for society? Wealth breeds more wealth, some sort of market barrier is put into place, these people will only continue to get richer.
What is positive about that?
I'm okay amending it to 4 if you say you've read him.
What is positive is that this isn't a zero sum game and the pie keeps getting bigger. There is plenty of room for more rich people withouth hurting anyone else. Why aren't you one of those rich people that you seem to hate?
When I read posts like your I get very concerned about the education system in this country. People who legally become rich have done nothing wrong and should be commended instead of being demonized. We have the greatest economy on the face of the earth in spite of people like you.
What nation has mostly poor and uneducated that you're referring to? It's not the U.S., so who are you debating with exactly?while most are poor and uneducated good for society?
So? Why is someone getting rich, bad?Wealth breeds more wealth, some sort of market barrier is put into place, these people will only continue to get richer.
What nation has mostly poor and uneducated that you're referring to? It's not the U.S., so who are you debating with exactly?
And what does that have to do with wealth inequality? You could have 1% ultra-rich, and 99% upper-middle class. That's wealth inequality, how is it intrinsically bad? It's not. You guys have no actual basis for your beliefs.
Understand that wealth and power are what people seek. Nations are destroyed, people enslaved, wars fought, throughout history. We broke this up. Weatlh is free for anyone to obtain in a relatively free market system, government/security power is broken up in a representative democracy. You keep wanting to merge the two, it's tragic. Government MUST be independant, and MUST preserve our right to freely compete in the market place (including regulations and other government functions). If not, you're right back to tyranny.
So? Why is someone getting rich, bad?
If wealth is good, and everyone is free to get it, and wealth breeds wealth, why is a system that allows you to pursue it anything but ****ing awesome?
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