Another Liberal Myth Exploded

[PoliticalChic]

Simple solution, add a fee to all products moved to a foreign from our soil and then imported to the US in order to save labor costs...

Let me get this right. You think products are moved from our soil and shipped to foreign countries just so they can be imported to the US and that all that saves labor costs?
I need to know what you are smoking and where I can get some.

I don't smoke, only fools and those on a death trip smoke. I wrote this:

"Simple solution, add a fee to all products (should have been production) moved to a foreign (country, should have been added) from our soil and then imported to the US in order to save labor costs, in the amount equal to what a consumer would pay for a product made in America. Then, provide incentives to domestic companies who chose to hire American workers and produce products like shoes, clothing, appliances and electronics, paying a fair wage and health insurance as required by the PPACA.

I admit the gaps, but reading the post one should be able to infer I was speaking to products once produced in our country and now moved to a foreign country to increase the profits of those who do not labor at the expense of those who do.

Now, what solution do you have to keep American jobs in America?

LOL!

So you're sayin' that we should place a tariff on exports, crushing US Manufacturing... then get the bankrupt government to subsidize businesses to hire US Citizens to build the stuff that US Citizens already can't afford... .

Wow~

You people are an embarrassment to the species.

1, outsourcing is crushing our manufacturing.
2. we are making US workers compete with mexico and china in terms of wages.
3. citizens CAN afford goods and services when they are paid a living wage and we build the economy.

man rightwingnuts are idiots.

"1, outsourcing is crushing our manufacturing."

So you voted for the 'Outsourcing President"????

1. The Obama administration had joined the new Arab-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and agreed to provide millions to support international green energy jobs. “In its fiscal 2012 budget request for international programs,the administration has asked for $5.2 million for IRENA.”U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook As Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency | CNS NewsHow many jobs in the United States will this endeavor provide?

2. Obama regulatory and tax policies sent jobs overseas.

3. “President Barack Obama will present his “jobs plan” on Wednesday at a companywhich is shipping jobs overseas…. WestStar is a high-end, specialty manufacturer that just opened a new facility in San Jose, Costa Rica — creating many new jobs there, but not in the United States.”http://test.dailycaller.com/2011/09/...to-costa-rica/




4. “This isn’t the first time Obama has chosen to speak at a North Carolina companyoutsourcing jobsoverseas.In mid-June, Obama spoke at Cree LED Light Company to discuss his job creation and economic policies. Cree has been shipping jobs to China.” Ibid.

a. Cree was also a recipient of Obama stimulus funds, a portion of which was also used tosend jobs overseas.
Limbaugh, “The Great Destroyer,” p.27.

5. “The Department of Energy estimated that 82,000 jobs have been created and has acknowledged that as much as 80 percent of some green programs, including $2.3 billion of manufacturing tax credits,went to foreign firms that employed workers primarily in countries includingChina, South Korea and Spain, rather than in the United States.”'Green' jobs no longer golden in stimulus - Washington Times




6. WASHINGTON -- Xerox, whose CEO, Ursula Burns, is advising President Obama on exports, last week told its product engineering employees that it is in outsourcing talks withIndia-based IT services firmHCL Technologies.Xerox CEO, an Obama appointee, may send jobs to Indian firm - Computerworld

7. (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that he told his daughter tobuy a Japanese car--a Toyota Sienna--and that she did so.U.S. Transportation Secretary: I Told My Daughter to Buy Japanese Car | CNS News




8. “U.S. funds, Arizona efforthelp Mexico truckspollute less
Using EPA grant money, the state offered to refit the trucks with the new exhaust systems, replacing factory-installed mufflers with converters similar to what is required for U.S. trucks. The process takes two or three hours to complete at a cost per truck of about $1,600…. The entire cost - parts and labor - is paid by the EPA grant through ADEQ.”U.S. funds, Arizona effort help Mexico trucks pollute less


9. “…Obama administration is now taking your American tax dollars and using them tofund the BBC World Service — Britain’s state-financed radio network.”The PJ Tatler » Your tax dollars now funding the BBC in addition to NPR



Is it a case of hypocrisy or of stupidity???

 

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Then please explain in what way it does. In he 60s CEOs made 40X the average worker. Now they obviously make far more than that. Nothing in the OP changes that. There is no reason they should make so much now to do the same job.

What business is it of yours what other people make? Worry about what you make, not what other people make. In fact it is not anything more than greed and envy that gets you pissed that other people make more than you do. It is pathetic to hear your wining about "no reason".. You don't get to establish the reason for compensation, the Board of Directors do. Get yourself on the BODs if you want to change it instead of whining about it.

The salaries of the CEO that you envy so much is paid for out of the sales of goods and services of the corporation. If you know of a CEO that makes so much that it pisses you off then simply don't buy any goods or services from the company then you don't contribute to the salaries. It is as simple as that.

You are a hypocrite when it comes to things like this. For instance, I don't see you bitching about Bill Clinton getting $500K for a one hour speech, even knowing that it has been revealed that he gets that much money because Hillary put pressure on foreign governments.

I don't see you getting pissed at the Kennedy's for being rich with bootleg money or condemning Kerry for getting rich marrying the filthy rich ugly broad.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Actually -- horseshit.

This is all a not very subtle part of the "1%" vs the "99%" OWS Soros inspired blather.

You far left wing horseshit munchers couldn't "discredit" the essence of the OP if you had a fact and credibility on your side. You have neither.

The OP does nothing to prove it's not true. CEO pay is going through the roof. That is a fact. In the 60s a CEO made 40X the average worker. Just look at what they make now.

Actually, it does.

And the fact is, the entire "argument" is premised on the wealth-envy communist socialist bullshit belief system lends no credence to the entire "discussion" perpetrated by Soros and his OWS cadre.

Then please explain in what way it does. In he 60s CEOs made 40X the average worker. Now they obviously make far more than that. Nothing in the OP changes that. There is no reason they should make so much now to do the same job.

Who gives a fuck?

They earn more because what they do is worth more.

If you work at Macy's Department store stocking shelves and I run Macy's national advertising division, why shouldn't I make an assload more than you?

And why should your jealousy govern this discussion or wage laws?

Why shouldn't doctors earn a shit load more than that stock clerks or employees at McDonalds?

How the FUCK is what they earn ANY of your fucking business?

The problem with your position is: I reject your completely baseless & irrational premise. I don't give a rat's ass that some corporate honchos make more than I do -- and I REALLY don't care that they make more than YOU do.

You should care. Too much inequality slows the economy, that is bad for the country.

You are a fool if you think companies can't find just as good of people to work for much less. It's a rigged game obviously.

Again in the 60s they made 40X the average worker. There is no reason they should now be making so much to do the same job.

"Too much inequality slows the economy,"

Nah.....Obama did that.

1.More than 6.7 million more Americans have been plunged into poverty since Obama became President.


2.Real household income is down 5%


3. Consumer prices are up 10.2%


4. When Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Since then, it has increased $7,514,567,086,650.22--which is $65,443 per household, $70,985 per full-time worker and $84,266 per full-time private-sector worker. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News

5. (CNSNews.com) - The federal government drove $789,473,350,613.20 deeper into debt in calendar year 2014, an increase that equaled $6,875 per household, $7,458 per full-time year-round worker, and $8,853 per full-time year-round private-sector worker. According tothe Treasury, the debt started calendar year 2014 at $17,351,970,784,950.10 and ended it at $18,141,444,135,563.30. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News


6. Food stamp recipients up 49%


7. Debt held by the public is up 89%


However, the Obama administrationrecently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, and $626 billion the year after. At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency.

As of 2012, according to the most recent figures reported by the Census Bureau, median (midpoint) income for all U.S. households was $51,017, which was 4.9 percent lower (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than it was in 2008, the year before Obama took office.

The same story applies to family income, which includes many families with two earners. (The “household” figure includes single persons living alone, as well as families.) Median family income in 2012 was $62,241, or 5.1 percent below the inflation-adjusted 2008 level.

The number of persons living in poverty also worsened again in 2012, according to the most recent Census figures.


8. As of last year, 46,496,000 persons lived in households with income below the official poverty line, an increase of nearly 6.7 million since 2008 and 249,000 since 2011. The total poverty rate remained unchanged in 2012 at 15 percent of the total U.S. population. So for the second straight year, the poverty rate was 1.8 points higher than it was in 2008.
Obama s Numbers October Update


9...in today’s recovery — the slowest in the modern era going back to 1947 — private capital investment has lagged badly. ... so has the jobs situation, with 92 million dropping out of the workforce altogether. A labor-participation rate of 62.8% and an employment-to-population rate of 58% are historic lows indicative of the anemic jobs recovery.Big Business Swings Behind a Mantra of Growth - The New York Sun


10. Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama
Tavis Smiley Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator Under Obama


11. . ".... the... [dollar] has today a value of barely a 1,250th of an ounce of gold, a staggering plunge from an 853rd of an ounce on the day Mr. Obama took office...." Fiat Wages - The New York Sun



12. "CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years, but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made


Federal deficits have soared between 2009 and 2012, bring the total long-term debt to a level equal to 73 percent of the nation’s GDP. “Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar.”

CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made Dallas Morning News


13. "Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as During the Recession
. ...the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey ....indicate that the real (inflation-adjusted)median annual household income in America has fallen by 4.4 percent during the "recovery," after having fallen by 1.8 during the recession.

Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the Recovery as During the Recession The Weekly Standard

14. "(CNSNews.com) - The real median income of American women dropped a little more than four percent in the first three full years after the end of the last recession,..... Census Bureau income data, the median income of American women was $21,520 in constant 2012 dollars. That was down $914 dollars—or about 4.1 percent—from 2009." Median Income of Women Dropped 4 --In First 3 Years of Recovery CNS News


15. "US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year...to a barely discernible 0.1 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That was the weakest pace since the end of 2012 and was down from a 2.6 percent rate in the previous quarter.... the anemic growth last quarter is surely a topic for discussion at the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting,..."

My Way News - US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1


16. "More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people working or seeking work fell. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count people not looking for a job as unemployed.

The bureau noted that the civilian labor force dropped by 806,000 last month, following an increase of 503,000 in March."

Report More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force CBS DC

The amount (not seasonally adjusted) of Americans not in thelabor force in April rose to 92,594,000, almost 1 million more than the previous month.


17. "The U.S. economy contractedat a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the firstquarter, but there are indications that growth has sincerebounded strongly.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domesticproduct fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worstperformance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace ithad reported last month." Final US first quarter GDP contracts

18. (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)..... the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June CNS News

19. (CNSNews.com)– The unemployment rate for black Americans is more than double that of white Americans, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).... In the numbers released today, covering the month of June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black Americans age 16 and over was 10.7%, reported the BLS. The unemployment rate for white Americans in the same age group and time-frame was 5.3%, said the BLS. Black Unemployment 10.7 More Than Double White Unemployment 5.3 CNS News

20. (CNSNews.com) - 11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks

11 472 000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office CNS News

21. "The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012,according to data released Tuesdayby the Census Bureau. When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits."
The 35.4 Percent 109 631 000 on Welfare CNS News

22. "(CNSNews.com)-- In June 2014, there were 46,496,145 recipients of the food stamp program, which is enough to fill the Yankee Stadium 925 times, according todata fromthe Department of Agriculture " 46 496 145 Food Stamp Recipients Can Fill Yankee Stadium 925 Times CNS News

23. In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”Clifton says for the past six years since 2008, employer business startups have fallen below the business failure rate, spurring what he calls“an underground earthquake” that only stands to worsen as lagging U.S. Census data becomes available.
“Let’s get one thing clear: This economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends of American businesses,” writes Clifton." Economic Death Spiral More American Businesses Dying Than Starting - Breitbart

24. "Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama
Those of you paying attention have noticed that the Obama administration is actually doing what it promised: transforming America into a gigantic welfare state." Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama - tribunedigital-baltimoresun

25. Washington, D.C.- An unabated influx of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States is causing a health crisis in the border region. Actions by the Obama Administration to disperse illegals across America while providing an incentive for more illegals to come could lead to a nationwide health crisis that is likely to manifest itself first within our public schools.....It has spread as far north as southern Mexico and south into Panama. Diseases such as this could be carried across our border by illegal immigrants and could create a nationwide health crisis. Chicken pox, measles, mumps and tuberculosis are already causing problems." — Project 21 member Michael Dozier, Ph.D., an expert in homeland security issues and talk radio host who has worked with humanitarian aid missions in Africa, Asia, the Balkans and the United States
Public Schools Face Health Threat from Illegal Aliens


26. "Despite the improving economy, most Americans continue to say that they are falling behind the cost of living. Overall, 55% said in theJan. 7-11 surveythat their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living,.... Views on this question have shown no improvement over the course of the last year..." Public opinion on the economy and Obama s handling of it Pew Research Center


27. "But with February’s slow down the 12-month wage growth rate ticked down to 2%....[Under Reagan: 'In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years.Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics Facts And Figures - Forbes ] Totalemployment gains in December and January were therefore 18,000 lower than what BLS previously reported. The labor force participation rate ticked lower to 62.8% from 62.9%, ..." Jobs Report U.S. Economy Added 295 000 Jobs In February Unemployment Down To 5.5 - Forbes

a. "But wage gains continued to lag, rising only 0.1 percent in February for private-sector workers after a reported 0.5 increase in January.... .“We hear we’re on the road to recovery, but people aren’t convinced of that.”http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-february.html?_r=0

b. "White youths saw their rate decrease 1.4 percent to 15 percent, but young African-Americans saw theirs reach 30 percent, a 0.3 percent increase.... For the population as a whole, participation rates are still hovering around their 1978 lows at 62.8 percent,..." Unemployment Down To 5.5 Percent In February The Daily Caller

c. "92,898,000 Americans were not in the labor force in February, according todatareleased from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday. ...The 157,002,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 249,899,000 civilian noninsttutional population, which matches the 62.8 percent rate in April, May, June, and October of 2014 as well as the participation rate in March of 1978. The participation rate hit its lowest level since February 1978 (62.7 percent) in September and December of 2014. 62.8 Labor Force Participation Has Hovered Near 37-Year-Low for 11 Months CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - A record 56,023,000 women, age 16 years and over, were not in the labor force in February.,,, According to the BLS, 56.7 percent of women were participating in the labor force in February, a drop from 56.8 percent in January. 56 023 000 Record Number of Women Not in Labor Force CNS News

28. "Surprise: U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing
It's not only the just-released University of Michigan consumer confidence report and February retail sales on Thursday that surprised economists and investors with another dose of underwhelming news. Overall, U.S. economic data have been falling short of prognosticators' expectations by the most in six years." Surprise U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World s Most Disappointing - Bloomberg Business

29. "More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up
'Business deaths now exceed business births for the first time' in decades.
The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of anew study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011." More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up The Weekly Standard

30. Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time; 62.7% Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low
Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time 62.7 Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low CNS News

31. Except for rich, Americans' incomes fell last year
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the department said that Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.

The average pre-tax income fell 0.9 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $64,432. Except for rich Americans incomes fell last year - Yahoo News



Excellent link showing the economy US Household Income Department of Numbers

 

[Flash]

Simple solution, add a fee to all products moved to a foreign from our soil and then imported to the US in order to save labor costs...

Let me get this right. You think products are moved from our soil and shipped to foreign countries just so they can be imported to the US and that all that saves labor costs?
I need to know what you are smoking and where I can get some.

I don't smoke, only fools and those on a death trip smoke. I wrote this:

"Simple solution, add a fee to all products (should have been production) moved to a foreign (country, should have been added) from our soil and then imported to the US in order to save labor costs, in the amount equal to what a consumer would pay for a product made in America. Then, provide incentives to domestic companies who chose to hire American workers and produce products like shoes, clothing, appliances and electronics, paying a fair wage and health insurance as required by the PPACA.

I admit the gaps, but reading the post one should be able to infer I was speaking to products once produced in our country and now moved to a foreign country to increase the profits of those who do not labor at the expense of those who do.

Now, what solution do you have to keep American jobs in America?

LOL!

So you're sayin' that we should place a tariff on exports, crushing US Manufacturing... then get the bankrupt government to subsidize businesses to hire US Citizens to build the stuff that US Citizens already can't afford... .

Wow~

You people are an embarrassment to the species.

1, outsourcing is crushing our manufacturing.
2. we are making US workers compete with mexico and china in terms of wages.
3. citizens CAN afford goods and services when they are paid a living wage and we build the economy.

man rightwingnuts are idiots.

"1, outsourcing is crushing our manufacturing."

So you voted for the 'Outsourcing President"????

1. The Obama administration had joined the new Arab-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and agreed to provide millions to support international green energy jobs. “In its fiscal 2012 budget request for international programs,the administration has asked for $5.2 million for IRENA.”U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook As Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency | CNS NewsHow many jobs in the United States will this endeavor provide?

2. Obama regulatory and tax policies sent jobs overseas.

3. “President Barack Obama will present his “jobs plan” on Wednesday at a companywhich is shipping jobs overseas…. WestStar is a high-end, specialty manufacturer that just opened a new facility in San Jose, Costa Rica — creating many new jobs there, but not in the United States.”http://test.dailycaller.com/2011/09/...to-costa-rica/




4. “This isn’t the first time Obama has chosen to speak at a North Carolina companyoutsourcing jobsoverseas.In mid-June, Obama spoke at Cree LED Light Company to discuss his job creation and economic policies. Cree has been shipping jobs to China.” Ibid.

a. Cree was also a recipient of Obama stimulus funds, a portion of which was also used tosend jobs overseas.
Limbaugh, “The Great Destroyer,” p.27.

5. “The Department of Energy estimated that 82,000 jobs have been created and has acknowledged that as much as 80 percent of some green programs, including $2.3 billion of manufacturing tax credits,went to foreign firms that employed workers primarily in countries includingChina, South Korea and Spain, rather than in the United States.”'Green' jobs no longer golden in stimulus - Washington Times




6. WASHINGTON -- Xerox, whose CEO, Ursula Burns, is advising President Obama on exports, last week told its product engineering employees that it is in outsourcing talks withIndia-based IT services firmHCL Technologies.Xerox CEO, an Obama appointee, may send jobs to Indian firm - Computerworld

7. (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that he told his daughter tobuy a Japanese car--a Toyota Sienna--and that she did so.U.S. Transportation Secretary: I Told My Daughter to Buy Japanese Car | CNS News




8. “U.S. funds, Arizona efforthelp Mexico truckspollute less
Using EPA grant money, the state offered to refit the trucks with the new exhaust systems, replacing factory-installed mufflers with converters similar to what is required for U.S. trucks. The process takes two or three hours to complete at a cost per truck of about $1,600…. The entire cost - parts and labor - is paid by the EPA grant through ADEQ.”U.S. funds, Arizona effort help Mexico trucks pollute less


9. “…Obama administration is now taking your American tax dollars and using them tofund the BBC World Service — Britain’s state-financed radio network.”The PJ Tatler » Your tax dollars now funding the BBC in addition to NPR



Is it a case of hypocrisy or of stupidity???

Lets not also forget that Obama spent quite a bit of that stimulus package in 2008 on foreign companies. Even the bailout of Chrysler was to a foreign company.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Hillary earns more per hour than the top ten CEOs

By one measure Hillary earned more than America s top 10 CEOs WashingtonExaminer.com

And there is no doubt she will run based on the same Liberal myth exposed in the OP.

You're not trying to say that there HASN'T been a semi steady raise in income inequality going on since the 1970s, are you? Because that would be false.

Here's just one study.

By all means, tell me if you don't like that source, there are THOUSANDS out there that show the same trend. I could post another for you.

It's also interesting that the political parties became more polarized within this same time frame.

See if you can get rid of that propaganda....try an industrial strength mouth wash.

For edification:

26 January 2014

Editor,New Yorker

Dear Editor:

John Cassidy concludes his musings on the finding that income mobility in America hasn't changed in recent decades with a warning: "Finally, the new study doesn't mean that the effects of inequality aren't more serious than they used to be. With inequality rising, particularly at the top, the rewards for clambering up the income distribution are greater, and so are the costs of getting stuck at the bottom" ("Social Mobility Hasn't Fallen; What It Means and Doesn't Mean," Jan. 23). This warning is confusing.

If rising inequality does indeed mean that "the rewards for clambering up the income distribution are greater," then we should expect more such clambering. In a market economy that means more work, more saving, more investing, more innovation. The results of this clambering might not yet appear in the data, but it's strange that Mr. Cassidy thinks that the higher rewards for "clambering up the income distribution" are necessarily a problem.

Also, why does rising income inequality mean that the "costs of getting stuck at the bottom" are greater? Unless Mr. Cassidy assumes that Jones gets richer only by making Smith poorer (and surely no modern economics pundit would commit such a primitive error), why does Mr. Cassidy dismiss even the possibility that individuals'absolute incomes can rise even if their relative incomes do not?

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics

Competition Job One - The New York Sun

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The OP does nothing to prove it's not true. CEO pay is going through the roof. That is a fact. In the 60s a CEO made 40X the average worker. Just look at what they make now.

Actually, it does.

And the fact is, the entire "argument" is premised on the wealth-envy communist socialist bullshit belief system lends no credence to the entire "discussion" perpetrated by Soros and his OWS cadre.

Then please explain in what way it does. In he 60s CEOs made 40X the average worker. Now they obviously make far more than that. Nothing in the OP changes that. There is no reason they should make so much now to do the same job.

Who gives a fuck?

They earn more because what they do is worth more.

If you work at Macy's Department store stocking shelves and I run Macy's national advertising division, why shouldn't I make an assload more than you?

And why should your jealousy govern this discussion or wage laws?

Why shouldn't doctors earn a shit load more than that stock clerks or employees at McDonalds?

How the FUCK is what they earn ANY of your fucking business?

The problem with your position is: I reject your completely baseless & irrational premise. I don't give a rat's ass that some corporate honchos make more than I do -- and I REALLY don't care that they make more than YOU do.

You should care. Too much inequality slows the economy, that is bad for the country.

You are a fool if you think companies can't find just as good of people to work for much less. It's a rigged game obviously.

Again in the 60s they made 40X the average worker. There is no reason they should now be making so much to do the same job.

"Too much inequality slows the economy,"

Nah.....Obama did that.

1.More than 6.7 million more Americans have been plunged into poverty since Obama became President.


2.Real household income is down 5%


3. Consumer prices are up 10.2%


4. When Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Since then, it has increased $7,514,567,086,650.22--which is $65,443 per household, $70,985 per full-time worker and $84,266 per full-time private-sector worker. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News

5. (CNSNews.com) - The federal government drove $789,473,350,613.20 deeper into debt in calendar year 2014, an increase that equaled $6,875 per household, $7,458 per full-time year-round worker, and $8,853 per full-time year-round private-sector worker. According tothe Treasury, the debt started calendar year 2014 at $17,351,970,784,950.10 and ended it at $18,141,444,135,563.30. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News


6. Food stamp recipients up 49%


7. Debt held by the public is up 89%


However, the Obama administrationrecently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, and $626 billion the year after. At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency.

As of 2012, according to the most recent figures reported by the Census Bureau, median (midpoint) income for all U.S. households was $51,017, which was 4.9 percent lower (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than it was in 2008, the year before Obama took office.

The same story applies to family income, which includes many families with two earners. (The “household” figure includes single persons living alone, as well as families.) Median family income in 2012 was $62,241, or 5.1 percent below the inflation-adjusted 2008 level.

The number of persons living in poverty also worsened again in 2012, according to the most recent Census figures.


8. As of last year, 46,496,000 persons lived in households with income below the official poverty line, an increase of nearly 6.7 million since 2008 and 249,000 since 2011. The total poverty rate remained unchanged in 2012 at 15 percent of the total U.S. population. So for the second straight year, the poverty rate was 1.8 points higher than it was in 2008.
Obama s Numbers October Update


9...in today’s recovery — the slowest in the modern era going back to 1947 — private capital investment has lagged badly. ... so has the jobs situation, with 92 million dropping out of the workforce altogether. A labor-participation rate of 62.8% and an employment-to-population rate of 58% are historic lows indicative of the anemic jobs recovery.Big Business Swings Behind a Mantra of Growth - The New York Sun


10. Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama
Tavis Smiley Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator Under Obama


11. . ".... the... [dollar] has today a value of barely a 1,250th of an ounce of gold, a staggering plunge from an 853rd of an ounce on the day Mr. Obama took office...." Fiat Wages - The New York Sun



12. "CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years, but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made


Federal deficits have soared between 2009 and 2012, bring the total long-term debt to a level equal to 73 percent of the nation’s GDP. “Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar.”

CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made Dallas Morning News


13. "Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as During the Recession
. ...the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey ....indicate that the real (inflation-adjusted)median annual household income in America has fallen by 4.4 percent during the "recovery," after having fallen by 1.8 during the recession.

Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the Recovery as During the Recession The Weekly Standard

14. "(CNSNews.com) - The real median income of American women dropped a little more than four percent in the first three full years after the end of the last recession,..... Census Bureau income data, the median income of American women was $21,520 in constant 2012 dollars. That was down $914 dollars—or about 4.1 percent—from 2009." Median Income of Women Dropped 4 --In First 3 Years of Recovery CNS News


15. "US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year...to a barely discernible 0.1 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That was the weakest pace since the end of 2012 and was down from a 2.6 percent rate in the previous quarter.... the anemic growth last quarter is surely a topic for discussion at the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting,..."

My Way News - US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1


16. "More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people working or seeking work fell. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count people not looking for a job as unemployed.

The bureau noted that the civilian labor force dropped by 806,000 last month, following an increase of 503,000 in March."

Report More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force CBS DC

The amount (not seasonally adjusted) of Americans not in thelabor force in April rose to 92,594,000, almost 1 million more than the previous month.


17. "The U.S. economy contractedat a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the firstquarter, but there are indications that growth has sincerebounded strongly.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domesticproduct fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worstperformance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace ithad reported last month." Final US first quarter GDP contracts

18. (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)..... the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June CNS News

19. (CNSNews.com)– The unemployment rate for black Americans is more than double that of white Americans, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).... In the numbers released today, covering the month of June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black Americans age 16 and over was 10.7%, reported the BLS. The unemployment rate for white Americans in the same age group and time-frame was 5.3%, said the BLS. Black Unemployment 10.7 More Than Double White Unemployment 5.3 CNS News

20. (CNSNews.com) - 11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks

11 472 000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office CNS News

21. "The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012,according to data released Tuesdayby the Census Bureau. When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits."
The 35.4 Percent 109 631 000 on Welfare CNS News

22. "(CNSNews.com)-- In June 2014, there were 46,496,145 recipients of the food stamp program, which is enough to fill the Yankee Stadium 925 times, according todata fromthe Department of Agriculture " 46 496 145 Food Stamp Recipients Can Fill Yankee Stadium 925 Times CNS News

23. In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”Clifton says for the past six years since 2008, employer business startups have fallen below the business failure rate, spurring what he calls“an underground earthquake” that only stands to worsen as lagging U.S. Census data becomes available.
“Let’s get one thing clear: This economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends of American businesses,” writes Clifton." Economic Death Spiral More American Businesses Dying Than Starting - Breitbart

24. "Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama
Those of you paying attention have noticed that the Obama administration is actually doing what it promised: transforming America into a gigantic welfare state." Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama - tribunedigital-baltimoresun

25. Washington, D.C.- An unabated influx of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States is causing a health crisis in the border region. Actions by the Obama Administration to disperse illegals across America while providing an incentive for more illegals to come could lead to a nationwide health crisis that is likely to manifest itself first within our public schools.....It has spread as far north as southern Mexico and south into Panama. Diseases such as this could be carried across our border by illegal immigrants and could create a nationwide health crisis. Chicken pox, measles, mumps and tuberculosis are already causing problems." — Project 21 member Michael Dozier, Ph.D., an expert in homeland security issues and talk radio host who has worked with humanitarian aid missions in Africa, Asia, the Balkans and the United States
Public Schools Face Health Threat from Illegal Aliens


26. "Despite the improving economy, most Americans continue to say that they are falling behind the cost of living. Overall, 55% said in theJan. 7-11 surveythat their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living,.... Views on this question have shown no improvement over the course of the last year..." Public opinion on the economy and Obama s handling of it Pew Research Center


27. "But with February’s slow down the 12-month wage growth rate ticked down to 2%....[Under Reagan: 'In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years.Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics Facts And Figures - Forbes ] Totalemployment gains in December and January were therefore 18,000 lower than what BLS previously reported. The labor force participation rate ticked lower to 62.8% from 62.9%, ..." Jobs Report U.S. Economy Added 295 000 Jobs In February Unemployment Down To 5.5 - Forbes

a. "But wage gains continued to lag, rising only 0.1 percent in February for private-sector workers after a reported 0.5 increase in January.... .“We hear we’re on the road to recovery, but people aren’t convinced of that.”http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-february.html?_r=0

b. "White youths saw their rate decrease 1.4 percent to 15 percent, but young African-Americans saw theirs reach 30 percent, a 0.3 percent increase.... For the population as a whole, participation rates are still hovering around their 1978 lows at 62.8 percent,..." Unemployment Down To 5.5 Percent In February The Daily Caller

c. "92,898,000 Americans were not in the labor force in February, according todatareleased from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday. ...The 157,002,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 249,899,000 civilian noninsttutional population, which matches the 62.8 percent rate in April, May, June, and October of 2014 as well as the participation rate in March of 1978. The participation rate hit its lowest level since February 1978 (62.7 percent) in September and December of 2014. 62.8 Labor Force Participation Has Hovered Near 37-Year-Low for 11 Months CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - A record 56,023,000 women, age 16 years and over, were not in the labor force in February.,,, According to the BLS, 56.7 percent of women were participating in the labor force in February, a drop from 56.8 percent in January. 56 023 000 Record Number of Women Not in Labor Force CNS News

28. "Surprise: U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing
It's not only the just-released University of Michigan consumer confidence report and February retail sales on Thursday that surprised economists and investors with another dose of underwhelming news. Overall, U.S. economic data have been falling short of prognosticators' expectations by the most in six years." Surprise U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World s Most Disappointing - Bloomberg Business

29. "More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up
'Business deaths now exceed business births for the first time' in decades.
The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of anew study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011." More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up The Weekly Standard

30. Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time; 62.7% Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low
Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time 62.7 Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low CNS News

31. Except for rich, Americans' incomes fell last year
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the department said that Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.

The average pre-tax income fell 0.9 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $64,432. Except for rich Americans incomes fell last year - Yahoo News



Excellent link showing the economy US Household Income Department of Numbers

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[gipper]

Actually, it does.

And the fact is, the entire "argument" is premised on the wealth-envy communist socialist bullshit belief system lends no credence to the entire "discussion" perpetrated by Soros and his OWS cadre.

Then please explain in what way it does. In he 60s CEOs made 40X the average worker. Now they obviously make far more than that. Nothing in the OP changes that. There is no reason they should make so much now to do the same job.

Who gives a fuck?

They earn more because what they do is worth more.

If you work at Macy's Department store stocking shelves and I run Macy's national advertising division, why shouldn't I make an assload more than you?

And why should your jealousy govern this discussion or wage laws?

Why shouldn't doctors earn a shit load more than that stock clerks or employees at McDonalds?

How the FUCK is what they earn ANY of your fucking business?

The problem with your position is: I reject your completely baseless & irrational premise. I don't give a rat's ass that some corporate honchos make more than I do -- and I REALLY don't care that they make more than YOU do.

You should care. Too much inequality slows the economy, that is bad for the country.

You are a fool if you think companies can't find just as good of people to work for much less. It's a rigged game obviously.

Again in the 60s they made 40X the average worker. There is no reason they should now be making so much to do the same job.

"Too much inequality slows the economy,"

Nah.....Obama did that.

1.More than 6.7 million more Americans have been plunged into poverty since Obama became President.


2.Real household income is down 5%


3. Consumer prices are up 10.2%


4. When Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Since then, it has increased $7,514,567,086,650.22--which is $65,443 per household, $70,985 per full-time worker and $84,266 per full-time private-sector worker. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News

5. (CNSNews.com) - The federal government drove $789,473,350,613.20 deeper into debt in calendar year 2014, an increase that equaled $6,875 per household, $7,458 per full-time year-round worker, and $8,853 per full-time year-round private-sector worker. According tothe Treasury, the debt started calendar year 2014 at $17,351,970,784,950.10 and ended it at $18,141,444,135,563.30. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News


6. Food stamp recipients up 49%


7. Debt held by the public is up 89%


However, the Obama administrationrecently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, and $626 billion the year after. At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency.

As of 2012, according to the most recent figures reported by the Census Bureau, median (midpoint) income for all U.S. households was $51,017, which was 4.9 percent lower (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than it was in 2008, the year before Obama took office.

The same story applies to family income, which includes many families with two earners. (The “household” figure includes single persons living alone, as well as families.) Median family income in 2012 was $62,241, or 5.1 percent below the inflation-adjusted 2008 level.

The number of persons living in poverty also worsened again in 2012, according to the most recent Census figures.


8. As of last year, 46,496,000 persons lived in households with income below the official poverty line, an increase of nearly 6.7 million since 2008 and 249,000 since 2011. The total poverty rate remained unchanged in 2012 at 15 percent of the total U.S. population. So for the second straight year, the poverty rate was 1.8 points higher than it was in 2008.
Obama s Numbers October Update


9...in today’s recovery — the slowest in the modern era going back to 1947 — private capital investment has lagged badly. ... so has the jobs situation, with 92 million dropping out of the workforce altogether. A labor-participation rate of 62.8% and an employment-to-population rate of 58% are historic lows indicative of the anemic jobs recovery.Big Business Swings Behind a Mantra of Growth - The New York Sun


10. Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama
Tavis Smiley Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator Under Obama


11. . ".... the... [dollar] has today a value of barely a 1,250th of an ounce of gold, a staggering plunge from an 853rd of an ounce on the day Mr. Obama took office...." Fiat Wages - The New York Sun



12. "CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years, but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made


Federal deficits have soared between 2009 and 2012, bring the total long-term debt to a level equal to 73 percent of the nation’s GDP. “Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar.”

CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made Dallas Morning News


13. "Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as During the Recession
. ...the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey ....indicate that the real (inflation-adjusted)median annual household income in America has fallen by 4.4 percent during the "recovery," after having fallen by 1.8 during the recession.

Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the Recovery as During the Recession The Weekly Standard

14. "(CNSNews.com) - The real median income of American women dropped a little more than four percent in the first three full years after the end of the last recession,..... Census Bureau income data, the median income of American women was $21,520 in constant 2012 dollars. That was down $914 dollars—or about 4.1 percent—from 2009." Median Income of Women Dropped 4 --In First 3 Years of Recovery CNS News


15. "US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year...to a barely discernible 0.1 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That was the weakest pace since the end of 2012 and was down from a 2.6 percent rate in the previous quarter.... the anemic growth last quarter is surely a topic for discussion at the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting,..."

My Way News - US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1


16. "More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people working or seeking work fell. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count people not looking for a job as unemployed.

The bureau noted that the civilian labor force dropped by 806,000 last month, following an increase of 503,000 in March."

Report More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force CBS DC

The amount (not seasonally adjusted) of Americans not in thelabor force in April rose to 92,594,000, almost 1 million more than the previous month.


17. "The U.S. economy contractedat a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the firstquarter, but there are indications that growth has sincerebounded strongly.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domesticproduct fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worstperformance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace ithad reported last month." Final US first quarter GDP contracts

18. (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)..... the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June CNS News

19. (CNSNews.com)– The unemployment rate for black Americans is more than double that of white Americans, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).... In the numbers released today, covering the month of June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black Americans age 16 and over was 10.7%, reported the BLS. The unemployment rate for white Americans in the same age group and time-frame was 5.3%, said the BLS. Black Unemployment 10.7 More Than Double White Unemployment 5.3 CNS News

20. (CNSNews.com) - 11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks

11 472 000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office CNS News

21. "The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012,according to data released Tuesdayby the Census Bureau. When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits."
The 35.4 Percent 109 631 000 on Welfare CNS News

22. "(CNSNews.com)-- In June 2014, there were 46,496,145 recipients of the food stamp program, which is enough to fill the Yankee Stadium 925 times, according todata fromthe Department of Agriculture " 46 496 145 Food Stamp Recipients Can Fill Yankee Stadium 925 Times CNS News

23. In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”Clifton says for the past six years since 2008, employer business startups have fallen below the business failure rate, spurring what he calls“an underground earthquake” that only stands to worsen as lagging U.S. Census data becomes available.
“Let’s get one thing clear: This economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends of American businesses,” writes Clifton." Economic Death Spiral More American Businesses Dying Than Starting - Breitbart

24. "Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama
Those of you paying attention have noticed that the Obama administration is actually doing what it promised: transforming America into a gigantic welfare state." Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama - tribunedigital-baltimoresun

25. Washington, D.C.- An unabated influx of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States is causing a health crisis in the border region. Actions by the Obama Administration to disperse illegals across America while providing an incentive for more illegals to come could lead to a nationwide health crisis that is likely to manifest itself first within our public schools.....It has spread as far north as southern Mexico and south into Panama. Diseases such as this could be carried across our border by illegal immigrants and could create a nationwide health crisis. Chicken pox, measles, mumps and tuberculosis are already causing problems." — Project 21 member Michael Dozier, Ph.D., an expert in homeland security issues and talk radio host who has worked with humanitarian aid missions in Africa, Asia, the Balkans and the United States
Public Schools Face Health Threat from Illegal Aliens


26. "Despite the improving economy, most Americans continue to say that they are falling behind the cost of living. Overall, 55% said in theJan. 7-11 surveythat their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living,.... Views on this question have shown no improvement over the course of the last year..." Public opinion on the economy and Obama s handling of it Pew Research Center


27. "But with February’s slow down the 12-month wage growth rate ticked down to 2%....[Under Reagan: 'In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years.Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics Facts And Figures - Forbes ] Totalemployment gains in December and January were therefore 18,000 lower than what BLS previously reported. The labor force participation rate ticked lower to 62.8% from 62.9%, ..." Jobs Report U.S. Economy Added 295 000 Jobs In February Unemployment Down To 5.5 - Forbes

a. "But wage gains continued to lag, rising only 0.1 percent in February for private-sector workers after a reported 0.5 increase in January.... .“We hear we’re on the road to recovery, but people aren’t convinced of that.”http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-february.html?_r=0

b. "White youths saw their rate decrease 1.4 percent to 15 percent, but young African-Americans saw theirs reach 30 percent, a 0.3 percent increase.... For the population as a whole, participation rates are still hovering around their 1978 lows at 62.8 percent,..." Unemployment Down To 5.5 Percent In February The Daily Caller

c. "92,898,000 Americans were not in the labor force in February, according todatareleased from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday. ...The 157,002,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 249,899,000 civilian noninsttutional population, which matches the 62.8 percent rate in April, May, June, and October of 2014 as well as the participation rate in March of 1978. The participation rate hit its lowest level since February 1978 (62.7 percent) in September and December of 2014. 62.8 Labor Force Participation Has Hovered Near 37-Year-Low for 11 Months CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - A record 56,023,000 women, age 16 years and over, were not in the labor force in February.,,, According to the BLS, 56.7 percent of women were participating in the labor force in February, a drop from 56.8 percent in January. 56 023 000 Record Number of Women Not in Labor Force CNS News

28. "Surprise: U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing
It's not only the just-released University of Michigan consumer confidence report and February retail sales on Thursday that surprised economists and investors with another dose of underwhelming news. Overall, U.S. economic data have been falling short of prognosticators' expectations by the most in six years." Surprise U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World s Most Disappointing - Bloomberg Business

29. "More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up
'Business deaths now exceed business births for the first time' in decades.
The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of anew study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011." More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up The Weekly Standard

30. Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time; 62.7% Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low
Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time 62.7 Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low CNS News

31. Except for rich, Americans' incomes fell last year
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the department said that Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.

The average pre-tax income fell 0.9 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $64,432. Except for rich Americans incomes fell last year - Yahoo News



Excellent link showing the economy US Household Income Department of Numbers

Cue the cricket sound

To the Obama sycophant, all this bad economic news is just noise...and racist too.

Facts don't matter.

 

[Flash]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains".

It gives the Libtards something to bitch about. The idea of hating somebody with money appeals to the greed and envy of the Liberals.

Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.

The thing that is bad about that hate is you first start out taking money from the billionaires, then the millionaires and then saying that it is wrong for some to make $75K a year when somebody else is only making $30K a year. Greed is a terrible thing.

 

[Marxist]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains".

It gives the Libtards something to bitch about. The idea of hating somebody with money appeals to the greed and envy of the Liberals.

Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.

Yeah, not like wages have been stagnant and more and more wealth goes to the top while productivity is at a massive high point..

 

[SAYIT]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains".
It gives the Libtards something to bitch about. The idea of hating somebody with money appeals to the greed and envy of the Liberals.
Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.
The thing that is bad about that hate is you first start out taking money from the billionaires, then the millionaires and then saying that it is wrong for some to make $75K a year when somebody else is only making $30K a year. Greed is a terrible thing.

Indeed. Socialism is a race to the bottom. The lowest common denominator. We are all equal ... equally destitute. No one can be stronger, faster, smarter or, most importantly, richer.

 

[BluesLegend]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains".
It gives the Libtards something to bitch about. The idea of hating somebody with money appeals to the greed and envy of the Liberals.
Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.
The thing that is bad about that hate is you first start out taking money from the billionaires, then the millionaires and then saying that it is wrong for some to make $75K a year when somebody else is only making $30K a year. Greed is a terrible thing.

Indeed. Socialism is a race to the bottom. The lowest common denominator. We are all equal ... equally destitute. No one can be stronger, faster, smarter or, most importantly, richer.

Well except for the elite liberal ruling class they will live like kings as payment for ruling the masses.

 

[SAYIT]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains"...
Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.

Yeah, not like wages have been stagnant and more and more wealth goes to the top while productivity is at a massive high point..

And along comes the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Whateverist right on cue to validate the Flash's point:
This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains"...

 

[SAYIT]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains".
It gives the Libtards something to bitch about. The idea of hating somebody with money appeals to the greed and envy of the Liberals.
Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.
The thing that is bad about that hate is you first start out taking money from the billionaires, then the millionaires and then saying that it is wrong for some to make $75K a year when somebody else is only making $30K a year. Greed is a terrible thing.

Indeed. Socialism is a race to the bottom. The lowest common denominator. We are all equal ... equally destitute. No one can be stronger, faster, smarter or, most importantly, richer.

Well except for the elite liberal ruling class they will live like kings as payment for ruling the masses.

So should I thank them in advance for their benevolence and magnanimity?

 

[BluesLegend]

Liberal rhetoric is rooted in hate and envy, that won't end well for them.

 

[BluesLegend]

This crap about "disparity of income and wealth" is nothing more than repackaging the old failed commie bullshit of "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains".
It gives the Libtards something to bitch about. The idea of hating somebody with money appeals to the greed and envy of the Liberals.
Nobody in this country is poorer because somebody else is richer.
The thing that is bad about that hate is you first start out taking money from the billionaires, then the millionaires and then saying that it is wrong for some to make $75K a year when somebody else is only making $30K a year. Greed is a terrible thing.

Indeed. Socialism is a race to the bottom. The lowest common denominator. We are all equal ... equally destitute. No one can be stronger, faster, smarter or, most importantly, richer.

Well except for the elite liberal ruling class they will live like kings as payment for ruling the masses.

So should I thank them in advance for their benevolence and magnanimity?

Oddly enough these liberal scum have the arrogance to think you should be grateful.

 

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Yeah, not like wages have been stagnant and more and more wealth goes to the top while productivity is at a massive high point..

Blame Obama for not stimulating capitalism enough. That is what makes everybody richer. Also flooding the country with low wage illegals hasn't helped much either.

Productivity improvements have come about because of technology, not labor.

Don't worry about the money that other people make. Worry about your own. If you don't make enough money then work harder or smarter. Bitching on the internet all day long about how much money other people make won't earn you one red cent.

 

[Wry Catcher]

The OP does nothing to prove it's not true. CEO pay is going through the roof. That is a fact. In the 60s a CEO made 40X the average worker. Just look at what they make now.

Actually, it does.

And the fact is, the entire "argument" is premised on the wealth-envy communist socialist bullshit belief system lends no credence to the entire "discussion" perpetrated by Soros and his OWS cadre.

Then please explain in what way it does. In he 60s CEOs made 40X the average worker. Now they obviously make far more than that. Nothing in the OP changes that. There is no reason they should make so much now to do the same job.

Who gives a fuck?

They earn more because what they do is worth more.

If you work at Macy's Department store stocking shelves and I run Macy's national advertising division, why shouldn't I make an assload more than you?

And why should your jealousy govern this discussion or wage laws?

Why shouldn't doctors earn a shit load more than that stock clerks or employees at McDonalds?

How the FUCK is what they earn ANY of your fucking business?

The problem with your position is: I reject your completely baseless & irrational premise. I don't give a rat's ass that some corporate honchos make more than I do -- and I REALLY don't care that they make more than YOU do.

You should care. Too much inequality slows the economy, that is bad for the country.

You are a fool if you think companies can't find just as good of people to work for much less. It's a rigged game obviously.

Again in the 60s they made 40X the average worker. There is no reason they should now be making so much to do the same job.

"Too much inequality slows the economy,"

Nah.....Obama did that.

1.More than 6.7 million more Americans have been plunged into poverty since Obama became President.


2.Real household income is down 5%


3. Consumer prices are up 10.2%


4. When Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Since then, it has increased $7,514,567,086,650.22--which is $65,443 per household, $70,985 per full-time worker and $84,266 per full-time private-sector worker. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News

5. (CNSNews.com) - The federal government drove $789,473,350,613.20 deeper into debt in calendar year 2014, an increase that equaled $6,875 per household, $7,458 per full-time year-round worker, and $8,853 per full-time year-round private-sector worker. According tothe Treasury, the debt started calendar year 2014 at $17,351,970,784,950.10 and ended it at $18,141,444,135,563.30. Under Obama Federal Debt Up 84 266 Per Full-Time Private-Sector Worker CNS News


6. Food stamp recipients up 49%


7. Debt held by the public is up 89%


However, the Obama administrationrecently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, and $626 billion the year after. At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency.

As of 2012, according to the most recent figures reported by the Census Bureau, median (midpoint) income for all U.S. households was $51,017, which was 4.9 percent lower (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than it was in 2008, the year before Obama took office.

The same story applies to family income, which includes many families with two earners. (The “household” figure includes single persons living alone, as well as families.) Median family income in 2012 was $62,241, or 5.1 percent below the inflation-adjusted 2008 level.

The number of persons living in poverty also worsened again in 2012, according to the most recent Census figures.


8. As of last year, 46,496,000 persons lived in households with income below the official poverty line, an increase of nearly 6.7 million since 2008 and 249,000 since 2011. The total poverty rate remained unchanged in 2012 at 15 percent of the total U.S. population. So for the second straight year, the poverty rate was 1.8 points higher than it was in 2008.
Obama s Numbers October Update


9...in today’s recovery — the slowest in the modern era going back to 1947 — private capital investment has lagged badly. ... so has the jobs situation, with 92 million dropping out of the workforce altogether. A labor-participation rate of 62.8% and an employment-to-population rate of 58% are historic lows indicative of the anemic jobs recovery.Big Business Swings Behind a Mantra of Growth - The New York Sun


10. Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama
Tavis Smiley Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator Under Obama


11. . ".... the... [dollar] has today a value of barely a 1,250th of an ounce of gold, a staggering plunge from an 853rd of an ounce on the day Mr. Obama took office...." Fiat Wages - The New York Sun



12. "CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years, but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made


Federal deficits have soared between 2009 and 2012, bring the total long-term debt to a level equal to 73 percent of the nation’s GDP. “Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar.”

CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made Dallas Morning News


13. "Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as During the Recession
. ...the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey ....indicate that the real (inflation-adjusted)median annual household income in America has fallen by 4.4 percent during the "recovery," after having fallen by 1.8 during the recession.

Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the Recovery as During the Recession The Weekly Standard

14. "(CNSNews.com) - The real median income of American women dropped a little more than four percent in the first three full years after the end of the last recession,..... Census Bureau income data, the median income of American women was $21,520 in constant 2012 dollars. That was down $914 dollars—or about 4.1 percent—from 2009." Median Income of Women Dropped 4 --In First 3 Years of Recovery CNS News


15. "US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year...to a barely discernible 0.1 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That was the weakest pace since the end of 2012 and was down from a 2.6 percent rate in the previous quarter.... the anemic growth last quarter is surely a topic for discussion at the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting,..."

My Way News - US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1


16. "More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people working or seeking work fell. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count people not looking for a job as unemployed.

The bureau noted that the civilian labor force dropped by 806,000 last month, following an increase of 503,000 in March."

Report More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force CBS DC

The amount (not seasonally adjusted) of Americans not in thelabor force in April rose to 92,594,000, almost 1 million more than the previous month.


17. "The U.S. economy contractedat a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the firstquarter, but there are indications that growth has sincerebounded strongly.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domesticproduct fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worstperformance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace ithad reported last month." Final US first quarter GDP contracts

18. (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)..... the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June CNS News

19. (CNSNews.com)– The unemployment rate for black Americans is more than double that of white Americans, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).... In the numbers released today, covering the month of June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black Americans age 16 and over was 10.7%, reported the BLS. The unemployment rate for white Americans in the same age group and time-frame was 5.3%, said the BLS. Black Unemployment 10.7 More Than Double White Unemployment 5.3 CNS News

20. (CNSNews.com) - 11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks

11 472 000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office CNS News

21. "The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012,according to data released Tuesdayby the Census Bureau. When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits."
The 35.4 Percent 109 631 000 on Welfare CNS News

22. "(CNSNews.com)-- In June 2014, there were 46,496,145 recipients of the food stamp program, which is enough to fill the Yankee Stadium 925 times, according todata fromthe Department of Agriculture " 46 496 145 Food Stamp Recipients Can Fill Yankee Stadium 925 Times CNS News

23. In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”Clifton says for the past six years since 2008, employer business startups have fallen below the business failure rate, spurring what he calls“an underground earthquake” that only stands to worsen as lagging U.S. Census data becomes available.
“Let’s get one thing clear: This economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends of American businesses,” writes Clifton." Economic Death Spiral More American Businesses Dying Than Starting - Breitbart

24. "Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama
Those of you paying attention have noticed that the Obama administration is actually doing what it promised: transforming America into a gigantic welfare state." Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama - tribunedigital-baltimoresun

25. Washington, D.C.- An unabated influx of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States is causing a health crisis in the border region. Actions by the Obama Administration to disperse illegals across America while providing an incentive for more illegals to come could lead to a nationwide health crisis that is likely to manifest itself first within our public schools.....It has spread as far north as southern Mexico and south into Panama. Diseases such as this could be carried across our border by illegal immigrants and could create a nationwide health crisis. Chicken pox, measles, mumps and tuberculosis are already causing problems." — Project 21 member Michael Dozier, Ph.D., an expert in homeland security issues and talk radio host who has worked with humanitarian aid missions in Africa, Asia, the Balkans and the United States
Public Schools Face Health Threat from Illegal Aliens


26. "Despite the improving economy, most Americans continue to say that they are falling behind the cost of living. Overall, 55% said in theJan. 7-11 surveythat their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living,.... Views on this question have shown no improvement over the course of the last year..." Public opinion on the economy and Obama s handling of it Pew Research Center


27. "But with February’s slow down the 12-month wage growth rate ticked down to 2%....[Under Reagan: 'In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years.Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics Facts And Figures - Forbes ] Totalemployment gains in December and January were therefore 18,000 lower than what BLS previously reported. The labor force participation rate ticked lower to 62.8% from 62.9%, ..." Jobs Report U.S. Economy Added 295 000 Jobs In February Unemployment Down To 5.5 - Forbes

a. "But wage gains continued to lag, rising only 0.1 percent in February for private-sector workers after a reported 0.5 increase in January.... .“We hear we’re on the road to recovery, but people aren’t convinced of that.”http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-february.html?_r=0

b. "White youths saw their rate decrease 1.4 percent to 15 percent, but young African-Americans saw theirs reach 30 percent, a 0.3 percent increase.... For the population as a whole, participation rates are still hovering around their 1978 lows at 62.8 percent,..." Unemployment Down To 5.5 Percent In February The Daily Caller

c. "92,898,000 Americans were not in the labor force in February, according todatareleased from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday. ...The 157,002,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 249,899,000 civilian noninsttutional population, which matches the 62.8 percent rate in April, May, June, and October of 2014 as well as the participation rate in March of 1978. The participation rate hit its lowest level since February 1978 (62.7 percent) in September and December of 2014. 62.8 Labor Force Participation Has Hovered Near 37-Year-Low for 11 Months CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - A record 56,023,000 women, age 16 years and over, were not in the labor force in February.,,, According to the BLS, 56.7 percent of women were participating in the labor force in February, a drop from 56.8 percent in January. 56 023 000 Record Number of Women Not in Labor Force CNS News

28. "Surprise: U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing
It's not only the just-released University of Michigan consumer confidence report and February retail sales on Thursday that surprised economists and investors with another dose of underwhelming news. Overall, U.S. economic data have been falling short of prognosticators' expectations by the most in six years." Surprise U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World s Most Disappointing - Bloomberg Business

29. "More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up
'Business deaths now exceed business births for the first time' in decades.
The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of anew study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011." More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up The Weekly Standard

30. Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time; 62.7% Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low
Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time 62.7 Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low CNS News

31. Except for rich, Americans' incomes fell last year
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the department said that Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.

The average pre-tax income fell 0.9 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $64,432. Except for rich Americans incomes fell last year - Yahoo News



Excellent link showing the economy US Household Income Department of Numbers

Ain't it awful.

That said, what would Romney have done, or, what economic policies would PC implement if - shudder - she became POTUS?

Come on PC what is the Ultimate Solution to all these troubles?

 

[Marxist]

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Yeah, not like wages have been stagnant and more and more wealth goes to the top while productivity is at a massive high point..

Blame Obama for not stimulating capitalism enough. That is what makes everybody richer. Also flooding the country with low wage illegals hasn't helped much either.

Productivity improvements have come about because of technology, not labor.

Don't worry about the money that other people make. Worry about your own. If you don't make enough money then work harder or smarter. Bitching on the internet all day long about how much money other people make won't earn you one red cent.

Blame obama???!!!! It's been like this for decades, and I will worry about a broken system,

 

[natstew]

Simple solution, add a fee to all products moved to a foreign from our soil and then imported to the US in order to save labor costs...

Let me get this right. You think products are moved from our soil and shipped to foreign countries just so they can be imported to the US and that all that saves labor costs?
I need to know what you are smoking and where I can get some.

I don't smoke, only fools and those on a death trip smoke. I wrote this:

"Simple solution, add a fee to all products (should have been production) moved to a foreign (country, should have been added) from our soil and then imported to the US in order to save labor costs, in the amount equal to what a consumer would pay for a product made in America. Then, provide incentives to domestic companies who chose to hire American workers and produce products like shoes, clothing, appliances and electronics, paying a fair wage and health insurance as required by the PPACA.

I admit the gaps, but reading the post one should be able to infer I was speaking to products once produced in our country and now moved to a foreign country to increase the profits of those who do not labor at the expense of those who do.

Now, what solution do you have to keep American jobs in America?

LOL!

So you're sayin' that we should place a tariff on exports, crushing US Manufacturing... then get the bankrupt government to subsidize businesses to hire US Citizens to build the stuff that US Citizens already can't afford... .

Wow~

You people are an embarrassment to the species.

1, outsourcing is crushing our manufacturing.
2. we are making US workers compete with mexico and china in terms of wages.
3. citizens CAN afford goods and services when they are paid a living wage and we build the economy.

man rightwingnuts are idiots.

"1, outsourcing is crushing our manufacturing."

So you voted for the 'Outsourcing President"????

1. The Obama administration had joined the new Arab-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and agreed to provide millions to support international green energy jobs. “In its fiscal 2012 budget request for international programs,the administration has asked for $5.2 million for IRENA.”U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook As Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency | CNS NewsHow many jobs in the United States will this endeavor provide?

2. Obama regulatory and tax policies sent jobs overseas.

3. “President Barack Obama will present his “jobs plan” on Wednesday at a companywhich is shipping jobs overseas…. WestStar is a high-end, specialty manufacturer that just opened a new facility in San Jose, Costa Rica — creating many new jobs there, but not in the United States.”http://test.dailycaller.com/2011/09/...to-costa-rica/




4. “This isn’t the first time Obama has chosen to speak at a North Carolina companyoutsourcing jobsoverseas.In mid-June, Obama spoke at Cree LED Light Company to discuss his job creation and economic policies. Cree has been shipping jobs to China.” Ibid.

a. Cree was also a recipient of Obama stimulus funds, a portion of which was also used tosend jobs overseas.
Limbaugh, “The Great Destroyer,” p.27.

5. “The Department of Energy estimated that 82,000 jobs have been created and has acknowledged that as much as 80 percent of some green programs, including $2.3 billion of manufacturing tax credits,went to foreign firms that employed workers primarily in countries includingChina, South Korea and Spain, rather than in the United States.”'Green' jobs no longer golden in stimulus - Washington Times




6. WASHINGTON -- Xerox, whose CEO, Ursula Burns, is advising President Obama on exports, last week told its product engineering employees that it is in outsourcing talks withIndia-based IT services firmHCL Technologies.Xerox CEO, an Obama appointee, may send jobs to Indian firm - Computerworld

7. (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that he told his daughter tobuy a Japanese car--a Toyota Sienna--and that she did so.U.S. Transportation Secretary: I Told My Daughter to Buy Japanese Car | CNS News




8. “U.S. funds, Arizona efforthelp Mexico truckspollute less
Using EPA grant money, the state offered to refit the trucks with the new exhaust systems, replacing factory-installed mufflers with converters similar to what is required for U.S. trucks. The process takes two or three hours to complete at a cost per truck of about $1,600…. The entire cost - parts and labor - is paid by the EPA grant through ADEQ.”U.S. funds, Arizona effort help Mexico trucks pollute less


9. “…Obama administration is now taking your American tax dollars and using them tofund the BBC World Service — Britain’s state-financed radio network.”The PJ Tatler » Your tax dollars now funding the BBC in addition to NPR



Is it a case of hypocrisy or of stupidity???

Neither, he knows exactly what he's doing, bringing America down.

 

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Indeed. Socialism is a race to the bottom. The lowest common denominator. We are all equal ... equally destitute. No one can be stronger, faster, smarter or, most importantly, richer.

The sad thing is that the history of socialism in the world is either a story of stagnation, mediocrity or failure. The historically more capitalist US has always had a stronger economy than the mostly stagnant, low growth, high unemployment European socialistic democracies and we have seen what has happen to the Soviet Union and the eastern block countries. The hard core socialists countries like Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea are disasters. China is doing better because it is adopting capitalistic markets.

With the historical and world wide failures of socialism why these idiots in the US think that it will somehow work here in the US is absolutely beyond comprehension. Just turning a little more socialistic with Obama has had really bad consequences for this country as PolitcalChick listed above.