fyi... You are no longer needed

[jms62]

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/the_..._middle_class/

[Rudeboyelvis]

The Tea Party was a terrific investment for them (Koch Industries). They bought it relatively cheaply, then just programmed their robots to do their bidding.


Well, no cannonballs did fly, no rifles cut us down
No bombs fell from the sky, no blood soaked the ground
No powder flash blinded the eye, no deathly thunder sounded
But just as sure as the hand of God, they brought death to my hometown


- Death to my Hometown~B. Springsteen

[dellinger63]

The super-rich rode on the same trains as us, and flew in the same planes as us. They went to our hospitals and learned at our schools.

I knew those super-rich people of yesteryear were lying about being educated overseas and when that crazy Kennedy sister allegedly got sent off to a private hospital it was really a State nut house.

Ever watch the movie Titanic?

Then again why let facts get in the way of the author's wandering, senseless rant?

Amazing people are still fighting to get into this country both legally and illegally.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I knew those super-rich people of yesteryear were lying about being educated overseas and when that crazy Kennedy sister allegedly got sent off to a private hospital it was really a State nut house.

Ever watch the movie Titanic?

Then again why let facts get in the way of the author's wandering, senseless rant?

Amazing people are still fighting to get into this country both legally and illegally.

Simply Unsustainable ... and in the end ... really Dangerous.

Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than $20,000 Last Year
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...e-income-data/

Economic musical chairs Del.. Glad you aren't affected.. Yet...

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

Simply Unsustainable ... and in the end ... really Dangerous.

Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than $20,000 Last Year
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...e-income-data/

Economic musical chairs Del.. Glad you aren't affected.. Yet...

and more than half made less than 30k. we're going in the wrong direction.


“When the average wage grows but the median wage stagnates, it means that, statistically, only workers in the top half of the job market are experiencing increases,” he writes.


most of the wage growth was for the top quarter of earners, or those who make about $50,000 and up. In fact, things are very good at the top. The number of workers making $5 million a year or more jumped by nearly 27 percent over 2011, and their total wages grew 40 percent, or 13 times the increase for all workers.

This income inequality has been growing since the 1970s, as the richest 20 percent of Americans saw their income grow much faster than the bottom 20 percent. But things have accelerated in the economic downturn. For the past three years, those at the top of the income ladder saw their incomes grow by 5 percent while everyone else’s income dropped.

[dellinger63]

Some handicappers blame themselves or chalk it up to circumstance when they bet wrongly and conversely others put blame on the sport itself being fixed.

You'll find the former will analyze what might have gone wrong in an attempt to prevent it from happening again while the latter will accept the sport is fixed and only change by playing names or numbers.

In life some will continually learn and try and better their life situation while others will accept life is fixed and rely on the lottery as their only chance for success.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Some handicappers blame themselves or chalk it up to circumstance when they bet wrongly and conversely others put blame on the sport itself being fixed.

You'll find the former will analyze what might have gone wrong in an attempt to prevent it from happening again while the latter will accept the sport is fixed and only change by playing names or numbers.

In life some will continually learn and try and better their life situation while others will accept life is fixed and rely on the lottery as their only chance for success.

Glad you are in the only depression proof business in the United States of America. Congrats. Just read the program and it says "Del Blinkers-On". I am doing very well now also but I would have to have my head up my ass till my shoulders to think that if the number of people with decent paying jobs keeps shrinking so will all my assets, stocks, houses, etc.... That is pretty fundamental.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/the_..._middle_class/

good article.

and i've said it elsewhere....the rationale that convinces the working class to support tax cuts for the rich, on top of all the cuts they've already gotten, and defending them while attacking the poor, is the same mentality that had the poor whites fighting the southern rich man's civil war to keep slavery. there was no logic in it then, and there isn't logic in it now.
the rich don't give a damn about anyone else, and it amazes me that people who have far more in common, and are far closer economically to those below them, insist on supporting those in the stratosphere above them. i guess they think some day they'll be filthy stinking rich like the koch brothers.
no, the way this country is going, and the way business is going, most of us will end up far lower down the scale than further up.
sorry to burst your bubbles.

there's been a sea change in how things are done in this country. it used to about working for prosperity, for growth, for everyone achieving the american dream.
now it's a few rich bastards squeezing every dime they can out of the economy, while the pay scale for everyone else stagnates.
we are far more productive now then ever in the history of this country, while making less than ever.
welcome to animal farm; we're the animals, and the kochs and others of their ilk, and their political hacks are the pigs.