This chart seems a bit concerning.

[Hugo Drax]

At some point some thing bad happens, well when you look in the history books.

 

[Jaskalas]

At some point some thing bad happens, well when you look in the history books.

The Pitchforks Are Coming…

Yes, our economic situation is not healthy. The fist step, as argued, would be $15 minimum wage.

 

[uclabachelor]

It's the American dream for everyone to be rich... to live in it you gotta be sleeping!

 

[Moonbeam]

It's the American dream for everyone to be rich... to live in it you gotta be sleeping!

Nice. Carlin?

 

[Moonbeam]

The Pitchforks Are Coming…

Yes, our economic situation is not healthy. The fist step, as argued, would be $15 minimum wage.

I don't know about the 15 dollar solution but I think you and your link are right about the rest.

 

[Atreus21]

At some point some thing bad happens, well when you look in the history books.

So how did this happen?

Distribution of average income growth during expansions. That's pretty specific. How many expansions have there been in each interval from that chart?

 

[Newell Steamer]

B-b-but trickle down economics!!

B-b-but people are lazy!!

B-b-but people are buying iPhones, tattoos, TVs and having abortions!

Remember, none of this is due to the wealthy manipulating our government and exploiting/abusing American labor. It all comes back to the middle and poor classes; they are at fault for bruising when they get punched in the face causing this situation.

 

[soundforbjt]

Nice. Carlin?

Variation, the original Carlin quote:
"It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it."

Where it came from... link listen or read the transcript.

 

[theeedude]

Gonna trickle down, any time now...

 

[Jaskalas]

Gonna trickle down, any time now...

From Wall-street, right? Figured that's why we bailed them out instead of the American people.

 

[Sonikku]

At some point some thing bad happens, well when you look in the history books.

The gradual decline seems to become a rapid death spiral after 2001.

 

[z1ggy]

From Wall-street, right? Figured that's why we bailed them out instead of the American people.

Anyyyyyyy day nowwwww....


-_-

 

[hal2kilo]

Variation, the original Carlin quote:
"It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it."

Where it came from... link listen or read the transcript.

Got the XSM on the Carlin channel or the Dead channel.

 

[BurnItDwn]

trickle down economics.

The piss is all that trickles down.

 

[michal1980]

B-b-but trickle down economics!!

B-b-but people are lazy!!

B-b-but people are buying iPhones, tattoos, TVs and having abortions!

Remember, none of this is due to the wealthy manipulating our government and exploiting/abusing American labor. It all comes back to the middle and poor classes; they are at fault for bruising when they get punched in the face causing this situation.

Gonna trickle down, any time now...

trickle down economics.

The piss is all that trickles down.

So are you going to complain to the guy you voted for?

 

[Engineer]

The Pitchforks Are Coming…

Yes, our economic situation is not healthy. The fist step, as argued, would be $15 minimum wage.

Yea, I would say that at some point, the forks will come out. Just a matter of when, not if, assuming that this trend keeps going.

 

[MagickMan]

So are you going to complain to the guy you voted for?

Don't hold your breath, the Glorious Leader isn't responsible for making the rich even more wealthy (just ignore all the pandering to the wealthy via all the fundraisers he attends).

 

[halik]

At some point some thing bad happens, well when you look in the history books.

Distribution of income changes will look identical to that in general, not just during expansion. All you are showing is that there are relatively more people without college education and wages of those w/o education have been on the decline over the last 50 years. Simply put, to be productive these days, you need more than k-12 education.

 

[BoberFett]

From Wall-street, right? Figured that's why we bailed them out instead of the American people.

We had to bail out Wall Street, or things would have been... worse?

 

[Engineer]

Distribution of income changes will look identical to that in general, not just during expansion. All you are showing is that there are relatively more people without college education and wages of those w/o education have been on the decline over the last 50 years. Simply put, to be productive these days, you need more than k-12 education.

So if we just bit the bullet and everyone went to college, the trend would reverse?

 

[Kadarin]

 

[Moonbeam]

Well, as far as I am concerned the situation is hopeless. No political party will do anything about this. We require a constitutional convention demanded by the people to change the Supreme court rulings that corporations are people and money is speech. We need to change the way we vote from winner take all and institute a process where a losing vote on a ballot defers to a second choice. It is up to the American people to fix this outside the current system. Violence is out so what other solution is there than the people changing the law so it works for them? What we have now is bought and paid for.

It seems to me that this simple fact is never addressed, that folk just want to complain.

 

[BoberFett]

It seems to me that this simple fact is never addressed, that folk just want to complain.

or spend all their time regurgitating politically motivated articles about brain defects...

 

[Moonbeam]

or spend all their time regurgitating politically motivated articles about brain defects...

That's it just complain.

 

[feralkid]

Don't hold your breath, the Glorious Leader isn't responsible for making the rich even more wealthy (just ignore all the pandering to the wealthy via all the fundraisers he attends).

Wut?!

I thought he was a socialist wealth re-distributer who hated the rich?