Richest 1 percent earn biggest share since '20s

[Zaap]

Actualy forced wanabee criminals that want to steal
from proven wide scale criminals....

You criminals always justify your theft with a self-delusion saying it's okay. There's nothing new in that. Part of the reason the only thing you know is wanting to steal the fruits of other people's effort, is that an original idea has never even entered your brain.

First of all you aren't in the 1% anyway, you are actually in the same boat as the rest of us

My life isn't consumed the way yours is, worried about some imaginary 1%. You've enslaved yourself to people that don't even give a shit that you exist. It'd be sad, except many of your type are so greedy, self-centered and purposefully ignorant that you deserve what you get. I've ceased to have sympathy for very ignorant people whining about how bad they have it and screaming for their 'right' to steal from others. Go suck on your misery and self-enslavement. Go whine about 'Da man is holdin' me down!" That's pretty much all you're good for.

Until the day when 'whiney, sniveling, jealous little prick' becomes the hot sought-after resume items, there's not much you're going to get from the rest of society except a brush-off, and if you persist more annoyingly in your douchebag demands, a kick upside the head.

 

[PokerGuy]

Here is a chart tracking the demise of unions in America.

And of course, since we all know correlation equals causation, that is very relevant..... or not. 😉 We should also assume that the world has not changed at all over those years, that the dwindling union numbers are the only thing that changed in the world (and American) economy. 🙄

It's a miracle you can even figure out how to tie your shoes in the morning, much less develop a coherent thought.

 

[OverVolt]

You criminals always justify your theft with a self-delusion saying it's okay. There's nothing new in that. Part of the reason the only thing you know is wanting to steal the fruits of other people's effort, is that an original idea has never even entered your brain.


My life isn't consumed the way yours is, worried about some imaginary 1%. You've enslaved yourself to people that don't even give a shit that you exist. It'd be sad, except many of your type are so greedy, self-centered and purposefully ignorant that you deserve what you get. I've ceased to have sympathy for very ignorant people whining about how bad they have it and screaming for their 'right' to steal from others. Go suck on your misery and self-enslavement. Go whine about 'Da man is holdin' me down!" That's pretty much all you're good for.

Until the day when 'whiney, sniveling, jealous little prick' becomes the hot sought-after resume items, there's not much you're going to get from the rest of society except a brush-off, and if you persist more annoyingly in your douchebag demands, a kick upside the head.

:/ I don't want socialism, the bottom line though is that the banks got bailed out and main street did not.

If you already used financial services to "get yours" like a house or car or education that you already got and paid off, then you are unaffected. If you are younger you are paying inflated top dollar for education, houses, cars, paying into social security and will never get it, etc. Talk about entitled the younger generations pay into SS and we know we won't get much benefit from SS when we are older.

The only way you will experience what younger guys experience now is when you retire. So we'll see if you are right. AFAIK most pensions are underfunded. The way that boomers are concerned about their pension is the same way that younger guys are concerned about how they are going to get their first house or education for a good job.

And the same way retirement is likely getting pushed back for you, younger guys keep having to delay, delay, delay on getting a house and settling down so to speak. But there are time limits on these things you can't get your start in life at 40 just like you can't keep working till you are 75.

 

[michal1980]

Here is a chart tracking the demise of unions in America. The interesting part of this chart is the nearly one to one correlation between it and the decline of the middle class in America. Unions made America great and created the middle class, their death at the hands of corporate swine is the death of America.

I wonder what happened in the 1940's that might have accounted for all the work done in the USA in the 1950s.

 

[fskimospy]

I wonder what happened in the 1940's that might have accounted for all the work done in the USA in the 1950s.

You aren't about to try and make the argument that the devastation of Europe in WW2 is what led to the US economic boom of the 1950s are you?

Before you make a terrible argumen, go look at exports as a percentage of GDP for the US in the 1950's.

 

[BoberFett]

I don't want socialism, the bottom line though is that the banks got bailed out and main street did not.

The bailouts were a product of government, not corporations. The government could have told the failing banks to pound sand and pick the remains from the insolvent banks, saving the little guy in the process. All those 99%ers with their tiny savings accounts would be covered by FDIC while the wealthy would have lost their shirts. Instead, the government made sure the wealthy were covered via massive bailouts.

So you expect the government that fucked you over to begin with is now going to make things right?

 

[Mursilis]

:/ I don't want socialism, the bottom line though is that the banks got bailed out and main street did not.

If you already used financial services to "get yours" like a house or car or education that you already got and paid off, then you are unaffected. If you are younger you are paying inflated top dollar for education, houses, cars, paying into social security and will never get it, etc. Talk about entitled the younger generations pay into SS and we know we won't get much benefit from SS when we are older.

The younger generations are also voting in far greater numbers for the party that opposes reforming SS, so they need to stop whining about that.

 

[Acanthus]

I really do fear that the only way change will actually come is through violence. That wont happen until things get so bad that Americans in large numbers can't afford food.

When you hear talk of welfare and unemployment cuts... that is when things get dangerous.

 

[Zaap]

So you expect the government that fucked you over to begin with is now going to make things right?

What amazes me is people think an entity that's blind with the largest mountain of debt ever created on earth and sorely dependent on spending is ever going to favor poor people with no money vs. rich people who feed the addiction.

It's like expecting a crack addict to shun the crack dealer and instead start giving money to charity.

The left's precious big government never has a problem bailing out their wallstreet buddies. Meanwhile, they're stocked up on riot gear, pepper spray and record amounts of bullets for all the cheerleading dipshits if they get too uppity. The only violence we'll ever see will be thousands of dipshit big-government cheerleaders getting their skulls cracked open by their big government masters.

It's been a trip watching morons cheerleading for their government to become as big and out of control as any dictatorships- who then think they won't be treated exactly the same way that all dictatorial regimes treat peasants. Nitwits only 'learn' things the hard way.

 

[fskimospy]

Wait, I thought poor people had everything on easy street with free food, free housing, free OBAMAPHONES, etc? If the government doesn't favor them, why do they get all that stuff?

It amazes me how you guys so seamlessly transition between 'the poors have everything, will vote themselves all our money, and destroy the country' and 'I can't believe the poors would ever be so stupid as to think they run anything' and never display even a flicker of cognitive dissonance.

 

[Zaap]

Wait, I thought poor people had everything on easy street with free food, free housing, free OBAMAPHONES, etc? If the government doesn't favor them, why do they get all that stuff?

So tossing them scraps to buy votes is the same as multi-billion dollar bailouts to wallstreet?

LOL! They say everyone has their price. You put on lipstick, kneepads and bend and spread for a phone and some 'free' bullshit that costs you a decent living!

Priceless!

 

[fskimospy]

So tossing them scraps to buy votes is the same as multi-billion dollar bailouts to wallstreet?

LOL! They say everyone has their price. You put on lipstick, kneepads and bend and spread for a phone and some 'free' bullshit that costs you a decent living!

Priceless!

So if the money spent is so trivial then why do conservatives care?

Again, in some threads being poor is awesome because you get all this free stuff and then we have threads like this where the poor get nothing. All I want you to do is make up your mind on which one it is.

 

[BoberFett]

Wait, I thought poor people had everything on easy street with free food, free housing, free OBAMAPHONES, etc? If the government doesn't favor them, why do they get all that stuff?

It amazes me how you guys so seamlessly transition between 'the poors have everything, will vote themselves all our money, and destroy the country' and 'I can't believe the poors would ever be so stupid as to think they run anything' and never display even a flicker of cognitive dissonance.

The poor do get a lot of shit. Due to sheer numbers, the aggregate spending on the poor (including the elderly, who are often considered poor due to being retired and on fixed income) is pretty massive. The wealthy get pretty massive government bennies as well. Neither one eliminates the other, I'm not sure why you think the poor and the rich getting government goodies has to be exclusive.

The people that get screwed are the middle class who pay a respectable amount in taxes, yet don't see government benefits anywhere near in line with what they pay. And don't say roads, police and fire departments like every other moron out there. Those things are largely paid for at the state and local level. Where roads are paid for by the feds, it's not out of the goodness of their hearts but as a means of coercion, such as controlling the legal BAC.

 

[fskimospy]

The poor do get a lot of shit. Due to sheer numbers, the aggregate spending on the poor (including the elderly, who are often considered poor due to being retired and on fixed income) is pretty massive. The wealthy get pretty massive government bennies as well. Neither one eliminates the other, I'm not sure why you think the poor and the rich getting government goodies has to be exclusive.

The people that get screwed are the middle class who pay a respectable amount in taxes, yet don't see government benefits anywhere near in line with what they pay. And don't say roads, police and fire departments like every other moron out there. Those things are largely paid for at the state and local level. Where roads are paid for by the feds, it's not out of the goodness of their hearts but as a means of coercion, such as controlling the legal BAC.

I don't think the poor and rich getting stuff is exclusive and nowhere did I say that. Our learned friend Zaap claimed that the poor have no power in government and that the government is constantly screwing them. In other threads conservatives love to say how the 'scales have tipped' and we have more takers than makers now so all the poors are bankrupting us with goodies.

 

[BoberFett]

So if the money spent is so trivial then why do conservatives care?

Again, in some threads being poor is awesome because you get all this free stuff and then we have threads like this where the poor get nothing. All I want you to do is make up your mind on which one it is.

Who said being poor is awesome? What people object to is that if you're poor enough, you can live almost as well as people who actually earn their money. If you're poor enough you can get your housing, heating, food, cell phone, medical care, and god only know what else paid for, and you don't even have to get out of bed. All the while some poor sap working in a factory busts his ass all day and doesn't really live all that much better than the welfare queen.

 

[dainthomas]

All the right-wing talk radio rageaholics in this thread should quit their jobs and join the ranks of the lucky-ducky poor people rolling in those sweet big-government bennies.

As a bonus, you'd get to listen to Hannity and Beck all day completely undisturbed.

 

[BoberFett]

All the right-wing talk radio rageaholics in this thread should quit their jobs and join the ranks of the lucky-ducky poor people rolling in those sweet big-government bennies.

As a bonus, you'd get to listen to Hannity and Beck all day completely undisturbed.

Oh look, another moron pops his head up.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I want a piece of the action!

 

[Matt1970]

Silly Progressives, thinking somehow they will get a bigger piece of the pie if tax rates were higher.

 

[Zaap]

So if the money spent is so trivial then why do conservatives care?

Trivial? Have you checked out the national debt lately? What's trivial about it. Has blowing all that money keep the poor from being poor?

Again, in some threads being poor is awesome because you get all this free stuff and then we have threads like this where the poor get nothing.

You just draw purposefully dumb conclusions to everything because that's what childish leftists always do. You ignore reality, and keep thinking you're going to rely on some halfassed childish idea that's never going to work. Like the dimbulbs in this very thread who think they'll someday, somehow, IF they can just get their lazy asses up off the couch for two seconds, start some kind of violence that's going to make people that have stuff give what they have to dimbulbs who are so stupid they think that's actually a valid plan. That type of convoluted nonsense is considered a great idea in leftyloonland.

Just as goofy, you sit around fantasizing that if you can just make government big and over-powerful enough, it'll someday, some way forget about looking out for its own interests (getting more money for more spending and more debt) and suddenly it'll turn on the rich people, in order to set your dumb ass up with the stolen spoils. And you actually think that's a valid plan, not just the idiotic fantasy of a very childish mind.

One day you'll figure out- your precious government tosses away trillions that supposedly are for the poor- yet somehow the gargantuan amounts of money winds up in the hands of fat cat bureaucrats and all the poor get is some scraps and so-called 'free' stuff, which as I said is only free if you don't take into account that it costs you EVERYTHING, like a future.

Your mindset is the same as true believers in communist countries- the type of dipshit that believed the Soviet Union was a good idea. Or Cuba. Or North Korea. Dear Leader will take care of you, just sit back and accept his blessing. Ignore the fact that Dear Leader is rolling around in untold riches, while you live in complete poverty. Your ilk is just fine with that- so long as you get the honor or worshiping at Dear Leader's feet, and accepting the scraps he tosses down to you every now and then. So long as you think you're getting over on some rich guy. (Meanwhile the rich guy and Dear Leader are sharing a cigar laughing to themselves how profoundly stupid you are.)

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Even though I realize idiot leftists will use this as an opportunity to push for even bigger government and more taxes, the reality is that this widening chasm between the haves and that have-nots is not a good thing for the US. The real question is, how do you fix it?

It's not the difference in incomes that should concern us as much as the ability to move from one level of income in society to another and the benefits or detriments incurred by such transitions. That is to say that we should be significantly more concerned about how easier/harder it is to climb rungs of the economic ladder of success and what benefits or detriments are there for doing so for the individual.

Hence the entire discussion that centers around income differences only matters if you believe that wealth is a zero sum game in that somehow the wealthy are "stealing" from other people in the economy and that wealth is also a finite resource to be dispensed by some centralize body who determines the "fairness" of who gets what in the end.

 

[fskimospy]

Trivial? Have you checked out the national debt lately? What's trivial about it. Has blowing all that money keep the poor from being poor?

You just draw purposefully dumb conclusions to everything because that's what childish leftists always do. You ignore reality, and keep thinking you're going to rely on some halfassed childish idea that's never going to work. Like the dimbulbs in this very thread who think they'll someday, somehow, IF they can just get their lazy asses up off the couch for two seconds, start some kind of violence that's going to make people that have stuff give what they have to dimbulbs who are so stupid they think that's actually a valid plan. That type of convoluted nonsense is considered a great idea in leftyloonland.

Just as goofy, you sit around fantasizing that if you can just make government big and over-powerful enough, it'll someday, some way forget about looking out for its own interests (getting more money for more spending and more debt) and suddenly it'll turn on the rich people, in order to set your dumb ass up with the stolen spoils. And you actually think that's a valid plan, not just the idiotic fantasy of a very childish mind.

One day you'll figure out- your precious government tosses away trillions that supposedly are for the poor- yet somehow the gargantuan amounts of money winds up in the hands of fat cat bureaucrats and all the poor get is some scraps and so-called 'free' stuff, which as I said is only free if you don't take into account that it costs you EVERYTHING, like a future.

Your mindset is the same as true believers in communist countries- the type of dipshit that believed the Soviet Union was a good idea. Or Cuba. Or North Korea. Dear Leader will take care of you, just sit back and accept his blessing. Ignore the fact that Dear Leader is rolling around in untold riches, while you live in complete poverty. Your ilk is just fine with that- so long as you get the honor or worshiping at Dear Leader's feet, and accepting the scraps he tosses down to you every now and then. So long as you think you're getting over on some rich guy. (Meanwhile the rich guy and Dear Leader are sharing a cigar laughing to themselves how profoundly stupid you are.)

Your shtick is getting old. You come raging out of the gate with poorly thought out, rambling posts. When someone points out how stupid what you wrote was you just become even more enraged.

The real problem with what you write isn't that it's stupid (although it is), it's that you're boring. Please at least try to have some more entertaining stupidity in the future.

 

[Engineer]

N/M

 

[Matt1970]

Your shtick is getting old. You come raging out of the gate with poorly thought out, rambling posts. When someone points out how stupid what you wrote was you just become even more enraged.

The real problem with what you write isn't that it's stupid (although it is), it's that you're boring. Please at least try to have some more entertaining stupidity in the future.

But it's not stupid. You progressives think the answer that will even the score card is the government but year after year, decade after decade has proven that wrong. All an increase in tax revenue does is increase the size of the govenrment.

 

[michal1980]

You aren't about to try and make the argument that the devastation of Europe in WW2 is what led to the US economic boom of the 1950s are you?

Before you make a terrible argumen, go look at exports as a percentage of GDP for the US in the 1950's.

But it did. There was tons of domestic demand for goods. Goods that could only be provided by manufactures in the USA. US manufacturing along with unions got fat and greedy.

Over time imports became available, competitive and cheaper then those made at home, and the job picture got worse. The period of time from the 50's to 70's were unique, to think those days will return is idiotic.