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Study Of Global Income Inequality Shows U.S. Middle Income, Poor Falling Further Behind Since 2000
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- "In the United States, the richest 10 percent earn an average of $93,000 - the highest level in the OECD. The poorest 10 percent earn an average of $5,800 - about 20 percent lower than the OECD average."
Oh please, give me a break. $5,800? Who are they counting here? More left-nut garbage.
Posted by bailmeout1
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They just don''t get it. And amazingly, the McCain/Pain/Bush/Cheney crowd is very convincing in persuading the public that the rich are just like us and are being unfairly treated. It''s bad enough that the bar has been lowered so low that even Sarah Palin seems qualified to guard nuclear buttons. Now, if John McCain and Sarah Palin are elected, there will be no country on earth whose leadership won''t pass the grade. With flying colors. It just goes to prove that old adage: if you lead a maverick to water and he won''t drink the koolaid, get yourself a plumber. - Reply to this comment
- At minimum wage your annual income would be $13,624.
Where the hell do they get $5,800????
If you can''t find work at minimum wage, you just don''t want to work. - Reply to this comment
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- The minimum wage in the average state is about 7 bucks, but it's not ACTUALLY a minimum wage. One thing you aren't taking into account is that many states have a minimum employer gross for that minimum wage. In many states, if the company makes less than the stated amount, then they have their own minimum wage, sometimes much lower than the regular one. You are also ignoring the minimum wage for tipped employees which is usually around HALF of the minimum wage you're looking at. I'm pretty sure the average income of the bottom 10% of Americans who work FULL TIME is not %5,800 but should we really ignore part time workers (including students) and people who are unemployed? Since our unemployement is up to around 10% these days, thanks to your Republican Party, that average of $5,800 a year would be about ZERO, if we didn't ignore the unemployed. You sure do like to ignore a lot of important facts, don't you?
- Is it really socialism? No
McCain''''''''s policies seem designed to make it easier for the rich to buy a 6th or 7th house than provide a livable wage for the poor.
Hmm...How does this tactic usually play out?
Well, next step, we can round up all the poor people into camps...when those camps become overcrowded and disease begins killing people in large swaths then what comes next?
Well, I suppose we could just burn all those bodies in some kind of large ovens...
Hmm still some people alive in those camps? Are people starting to ask questions? Is it costing too much to continue to hold them there.
Guess we could gas them...after all they''''re sick and poor anyway...
Is it really worth it just so the rich don''''t have to pay a little more in taxes..
Posted by zendigity at 10:32 AM : Oct 21, 2008
While you would be correct in a dictator maybe in the west what you normally have is a revolution to readjust the wealth. The ones who most likely revolt are the wing nuts they see that everything they held to be true was a lie so they start killing with out regards to who they kill hoping to get the guilty party in the blood bath.
Of course it does happen in a dictatorship. The Russian revolution in 1919 that usered in the era of the Soviet Union a more drastic way but it is possible for the minority to do this as was seen with the Soviet Union.
When you have nothing left to lose you don''t care if you live or die then it is just a matter of time. - Reply to this comment
- More left-nut garbage.
Posted by bailmeout1
Aren''t you the evangelical Christian! - Reply to this comment
- "In the United States, the richest 10 percent earn an average of $93,000 - the highest level in the OECD. The poorest 10 percent earn an average of $5,800 - about 20 percent lower than the OECD average."
Oh please, give me a break. $5,800? Who are they counting here? More left-nut garbage. - Reply to this comment
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- What are they counting? The bottom 10%, possibly? DUH. A few years ago, I worked in a grocery store. The economy was much better then than it is now. I made about 11k and several of my friends seemed to be making a whole lot less than me, so no, I'm not discounting that number. Could it be higher? I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but you wouldn't be scoffing at that number if you had the slightest bit of empathy for how many millions of people actually make something in the neighborhood. Visit some ghettos, Mr. Rich, and find out for yourself what poor really is, before you start talking this ********.
- Is it really socialism? No
McCain''''s policies seem designed to make it easier for the rich to buy a 6th or 7th house than provide a livable wage for the poor.
Hmm...How does this tactic usually play out?
Well, next step, we can round up all the poor people into camps...when those camps become overcrowded and disease begins killing people in large swaths then what comes next?
Well, I suppose we could just burn all those bodies in some kind of large ovens...
Hmm still some people alive in those camps? Are people starting to ask questions? Is it costing too much to continue to hold them there.
Guess we could gas them...after all they''re sick and poor anyway...
Is it really worth it just so the rich don''t have to pay a little more in taxes.. - Reply to this comment
- Hooray! America leads the world once again.
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