I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Interestingly, this was on CNN last week.

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I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

The middle and upper middle class are doing well. The rich are doing well.

I guess the poor aren’t doing well, but that’s probably because they’re poor.

But I gave you some data. You haven’t really addressed it other than to try to deflect it by attacking the source. Again, not my problem.

People are doing well. That’s the bottom line. They may not like Bush or Hillary or whoever. They may wish they had a 62-inch plasma instead of a 52-inch plasma, or wish they got the stamped concrete with the pool instead of the salted finish. But are those really huge gripes?

Comment by muckdog — March 26, 2007 @ 4:42 pm

Unfortunately, I can only put stock in that last sentence, that only 1/3 of Americans feel the economy is doing well. We’re all in this together, as a country. If the bottom falls out, the rich will come with it right behind the middle and the poor.

And I don’t need statistics to know that people are NOT doing better these days. I come from a blue collar midwestern town and live in a blue-collar southwestern town. I’m pretty well traveled. Iv’e got friends and colleauges all over the states. In geenral, I’m hearing that people are struggling just to maintain, working harder than ever before.

That does not constitute this nubulous idea of ‘doing well’. Just because you are doesn’t mean everyone else is.

This sense of progress comes at a time when only one-third of Americans rate the U.S. economy as good or excellent.

Link as of 2006.

So most folks are doing really well, but not satisfied with the economy. Er, ok.

I’m doing better. As a matter of fact, when polled most Americans say that they themselves are doing better but believe “other people” are doing worse.

Nobody seems to be able to identify the “other people.” But the liberals seem to be winning that misinformation campaign.

repugnant-repubs out on the spree
Damned from here to Eternity,
God’ll NEVER HAVE MERCY on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!”
(with Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
BY THE WAY, TO USE A DR. WHO GEAS-CURSE, “CHIMPya DOESN’T LOOK AT ALL WELL…” Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh!!!!!

“Income inequality” a BAD thing? Christ, to CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies IT’S THE CAT’S MEOW!!!!!

Diyala is going into “Kidney Failure” and will need Diyala-Assist(Dialysis) SOON!

Who do these so-called “lawyers” aka SHYSTERS, WORK FOR? The repugnant-repubs, OF COURSE!!!!! THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO TO LET THE TRUTH ABOUT ILLEGAL SPYING COME OUT, IT MIGHT BLOW UP IN THEIR FACES AND LEAD RIGHT TO FAT-F*CK Rove, CHIMPya, FRANKENCheney, and the REST of Bushland Uber Allies!!!!!

THAT WAS A BRAVE THING FOR John Edwards TO SAY, NOT TO GIVE THEM A SYMPATHY/COMPASSION VOTE—–DUMB, BUT BRAVE NONETHELESS!!!!!

I KNEW CNN WAS SIDLING TOWARDS Bushland Uber Allies WHEN THEY ADDED IDIOT DUNG-dits(Pundits full of SHIT) LIKE Glenn Beck, TOADYS TO CHIMPya and Co.—-LAPDOGS OF THE MEDIA, ROLL OVER FOR MONKEY BOY CHIMPya—-LOATHESOME COWARDS AND SELLOUTS!!!!!

And in SOME cases, the technology is POUNDING THE CRAP OUT OF THOSE WHO DESERVE TO HAVE THE CRAP KICKED OUT OF THEM, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE OUT THERE!!!!!!

Khalilzad may also be the LAST American official to do so WHEN HE IS BLOWN INTO SMITHEREENS BY MILITANT SHIITE ARABS WHO DETEST MILITANT SUNNI ARABS WHO Khalilzad IS EMBRACING!!!!!

Ah Yes, “Tricky Ricky” Santorum, ANOTHER repugnant-repub TOTAL F*CK-UP WHO STILL BELIEVES HE HAS RELEVANCE ON THE SCENE, LIKE THE OTHER Lamprey/Hagfish Creep Tom DeLay—-WHEN WILL THESE F*CKING IDIOT repugnant-repubs GET THE MESSAGE AND CRAWL BACK UNDER THE ROCKS THEY CREPT OUT FROM LIKE THE VERMIN THEY ARE, YOU BOMBASTIC IMBECILES Santorum and DeLay?????

paaaalease! You’re kidding right? Pick and choose information, give me a brake, the f*cking republithugs wrote the book on distorting data with non-qualified political operatives overseeing and distorting the work of highly educated scientists and you want to come off all self-righteous!

To h*ll with statistics, as Bill Clinton asked prior to being voted into office, “Are you any better off than you were (in that case four years ago) six years ago, well for the majority of Americans that’s a decisive H*LL NO! The fascists are picking my pocket whatever rediculous statistics you want to offer.

The numbers from the Census Bureau are the numbers. You want us to believe doctrinaire libertarians rather than the data???!!! Please. Get serious. The specific numbers I showed from the government’s own data show people with college degrees have seen their wages decline.

Your numbers are right on hourly wage, but that really doesn’t tell the whole story.

Lets link to Cato, shall we? More brains over there than at the American Prospect.

There are frequent complaints that U.S. income inequality has increased in recent decades. Estimates of rising inequality that are widely cited in the media are often based on federal income tax return data. Those data appear to show that the share of U.S. income going to the top 1 percent (those people with the highest incomes) has increased substantially since the 1970s.

In sum, studies based on tax return data provide highly misleading comparisons of changes to the U.S. income distribution because of dramatic changes in tax rules and tax reporting in recent decades. Aside from stock option windfalls during the late-1990s stock-market boom, there is little evidence of a significant or sustained increase in the inequality of U.S. incomes, wages, consumption, or wealth over the past 20 years.

And here’s a google search for you asking if so-called income inequality is really an issue. Probably an eye opener for the brain-washed here.